Quantitative Business Analysis Team Lead
Financial Services, Banking
Minimum Requirements
- Integrate specialist understanding of Investment banking, technology, business processes, and data analysis to provide an optimal solution that satisfies stakeholder needs and requirements, expanding the delivery footprint of the capability.
- Engage with internal business (viz. Trading, Risk Managers, XVA specialists, Quantitative specialists) and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed.
- Ensure adequate and timely responsiveness and resolution on production incidents and feedback on queries relating to risk, pricing and technical queries linked to Workflows, Integration and Reporting.
- Coordinate and participate in the test effort to ensure that the delivered solution meets agreed business requirements and functional/process specifications.
- Provide input into the design and implementation of scalable, fit for purpose and resilient platform solutions.
- Liaise with external contracted suppliers (e.g., CompatibL) to implement new solutions required by business and technology users according to an agreed roadmap.
- Build and manage an effective, skilled team with appropriate succession planning.
- Manage performance of employees by clearly defining goals and objectives and providing direction, coaching and regular feedback
- Drive team optimisation and synergies by organising the team with client and output aligned goals through Quarterly Business Reviews and agile ceremonies and practices.
- Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability.
- Build effective relationships that allow for the managing of expectations, the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights, the creation of buy-in and aligned delivery focus.
- Initiate stakeholder engagements to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders' requirements are delivered.
- Research, enable and consult on improvements and opportunities to harness technology and platform enablement.
- Review existing processes and suggest innovative ideas to improve and streamline processes to drive efficiencies and minimise redundancy
- Minimum qualification: post-graduate qualification in Mathematical Finance, Statistics, or another quantitative discipline
- 3 to 5 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 1 to 2 years ideally at junior (entry level) management level
- in experience in implementing and supporting Financial Markets systems and related interfaces.
- in designing, testing, and configuring quantitative systems.
- and knowledge in at least one of the following areas : Market / credit risk / XVAs (incl. CVA, SA-CCR, KVA, SA-CVA, MVA, etc)
- Working knowledge of SQL and ability to analyse data.
- Multi asset class, and trade life cycle knowledge
- Business process modelling and design capabilities.
- Understanding of data models and ability to validate data flows between and within systems
Responsibilities
- Build and manage an effective, skilled team with appropriate succession planning.
- Initiate stakeholder engagements to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders' requirements are delivered.
