Manager – Risk Advisory Quantitative Valuations

Job Description

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A Career at GT

Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently.

What does this mean for you?

A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for your clients. We respect and value your experience. And we want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best. It is how it should be.

Grow with us

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Department overview

Grant Thornton has an exciting opportunity within our Quantitative Risk team in our Risk Advisory practice. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and motivated person to join our team in financial services, with a focus on the European and US banking and asset management sectors.

Our Risk Advisory team delivers projects and advice to a diverse range of clients, including GSIBs, Asset Managers, and European Supranational Institutions. We work closely with colleagues across Grant Thornton, leveraging their expertise to provide comprehensive and innovative solutions.

Our team is composed of specialists in model development, model risk management, compliance, and governance. This includes ex-regulators, validation professionals, model developers, and asset pricing experts.

The role will primarily focus on fair valuations of financial instruments, such as derivatives, convertible notes, employee stock options, and other level 3 asset portfolios.

The successful applicant will assist the Directors and Associate Directors in expanding our market offering, play a key role in strengthening our client relationships, and assist in the delivery of a range of interesting engagements.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead: Lead assignments and engagements with banking and asset management clients in the areas of specialist pricing and risk expertise. This will include the provision of specialist expertise in independent model validation to ensure a best-in-class offering to the market.
2. Implement: Implement bespoke quantitative and qualitative frameworks for the implementation of best-in-class end-to-end independent model validation.
3. Professional Development: Offer your expertise and specialist knowledge while developing a thorough understanding of business strategy, products, and markets. Ensure continuous professional growth to contribute to the delivery of high-quality outcomes.
4. Business Development: Contribute to the development of the Firm and deliver on client-facing engagements and assignments. Create excellent proposals that show understanding of the market, client needs and the Firm's offering. Ensure opportunities are well understood by the Firm and developed by focusing on relationship development.
5. Communication: Take responsibility to ensure appropriate outcomes of work are communicated clearly and effectively within internal reporting lines and to external stakeholders.
6. Team Development: Provide ongoing training and support to the team and onboarding of new hires, particularly from a technical perspective. This will include planning, managing and allocating work to junior members of the team, whilst also leading assignments and engagements.

Skills and attributes:

1. A Master's degree or equivalent professional qualification in a quantitative related discipline.
2. Professional qualifications are not a necessity but an advantage, including CFA, FRM, ACCA.
3. 5-7 years experience in relevant financial services roles. Financial asset valuation experience will be considered to be of particular relevance but other relevant fields will include: working in credit analyst role, financial supervision, or financial/economic modelling.
4. Extensive understanding and experience of the pricing methodologies, approaches, and quantitative risk management techniques is required.
5. Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, planning, and organisational skills.
6. Proven ability to critically assess complex once-off issues and problems with the ability to distil significant volumes of information, identifying solutions for root causes of issues.
7. Knowledge of the pricing and asset management regulatory and legal frameworks is an advantage.
8. Excellent verbal and written communication, in particular the ability to relate to senior management, staff and clients.
9. Excellent capability in managing and delivering under tight timeframes.
10. Strong ability to utilise statistical/coding packages such as (SAS, R, Python, VBA, C++).
11. Excellent MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills.

Equity, diversity and inclusion

At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied individuals present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.

We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm's best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.

Reward and benefits

Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive.

Recognition

We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme.

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