Junior Quant Analyst - London, United Kingdom - Mazars

Mazars

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Advisory and Consulting Service Line is a rapidly growing, award winning global group of successful teams working together to present a go to market differentiator whilst delivering the quality of work for our clients.

Due to the continued growth of our Risk Consulting Department, we are looking for a Quantitative Analyst to join the Quantitative Finance Team based in London.

You will mainly interact with banks but also insurance companies, large corporates and servicecompanies on a variety of projects.

Contribute in small and large-sized multidisciplinary engagement teams delivering quantitative finance projects for clients:

Cross-asset derivative pricing including valuation adjustments (XVA). Calibration of models using best industry practices
Model validation for small to large size clients, for quantitative risk management models such as (PD/LGD, VaR, Expected Shortfall, EPE/PFE)
Implementation review of accounting standards such as FRTB, IFRS9, CECL
Development of internal pricing libraries and tools (e.g. C/ECL, stress testing)
Oversee summer internship projects
Contribute to Mazars' regulatory watch activities by writing articles or providing technical content
Support business development by preparing client proposals
Help with administrative tasks (such as training and recruitment)

Person Specification

Holds a 2.1 or above master's degree in a quantitative discipline e.g. mathematics, statistics, quantitative finance
Holds relevant and recent quantitative experience within a financial institution or a consulting environment
Advanced knowledge in derivative pricing, quantitative risk management (covering credit, market and counterparty risk), stochastic calculus, modelling, statistics and probabilities
Strong significant experience either in derivative pricing, credit (PD and LGD modelling) and market (VaR, Expected Shortfall, FRTB) risk modelling
Strong experience in either of Python, R or C++
Excellent stakeholder management and time management skills
Ability to work in a team
People management skills, mentoring junior members
Desired experience/skills: model validation and machine learning

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