Job Description
Our client is a Global Banking Leader in London who are looking for an experienced Quant/Strat to join a high performing team who focus on increasing revenue, optimising use of capital, and responding to new business opportunities.
As a Quant Strat you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the financial objectives while collaborating with various teams to optimize profitability metrics and lead the integration of cutting-edge technology solutions.
The Strats team bring together an entrepreneurial spirit and commercial acumen with a deep understanding of front-line business, combined with the ability to write production-level Python code, and strong mathematical, statistical and data analytics skills, which contributes directly towards the Financial Resource Management department’s financial objectives.
The role offers a good work/life balance and a salary range between £110k- £130k (negotiable) plus bonus and benefits.
The ideal candidate will have some Data Scientists-like experience rather than a pure Data Scientist, and we're looking for someone with the breadth of experience to hit the ground running.
This individual will have experience around tech/platform/architecture to drive conversations with the data engineering team.
Your responsibilities will include:
* Statistical profiling of disperse datasets representing inputs into the return on equity of the business identify opportunities to optimise one or more aspects of profitability metrics
* Providing commercially driven thought leadership into the design and implementation of the common analytics library and data science workbench
* Partnering with client facing teams and functions to drive the design of capital & resource efficient products ensuring the tooling is available to monitor the performance of those products
* Leading efforts to drive culture change across the organisation to embed quantitative tooling in to increasingly automated processes in asset classes that are becoming technology driven in the marketplace
* Liaising with relevant stakeholders within Global Businesses and Global Functions
* Collaborating with and where appropriate, leading cross-functional working groups & steering committees
* Delivering fair outcomes for our customers and ensuring conduct maintains the orderly and transparent operation of financial markets
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
* Extensive broad-based banking experience in financial services with preference for those who have focused on credit or cash management markets
* Knowledge of software development and experience in a range of coding languages e.g. Python, C++
* Experience with MLOps, Kubernetes/containerisation
* Thought leadership and innovative problem solving
* Strong numeracy skills with a background mathematical disciplines
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey information clearly and concisely to key stakeholders
* Strong influencing, interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
* Result oriented and team player who can foster strong and collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders
For a confident chat and to discuss the role in more detail please apply to this role and contact tg@baclaysimpson.com