Quant Risk Analyst - 12 Month Contract

Source Group are working alongside a customer in the Banking sector who are looking to hire a Freelance Quant Risk Analyst.

We are looking for a Quantitative Risk Analyst to join the Risk Management team to ensure that financial risks arising from banking operations are identified, appropriately measured, controlled, monitored and reported. You will be responsible for developing quantitative risk measurement and valuation methodologies across all financial risk types, in line with sound market practice and regulation.

The ideal candidate will be a Quantitative Risk Analyst ideally with a mathematical financial background experienced in quantitative risk models as well as their production implementation or prototyping (eg using Python).

Tasks:

• Contribute to the review, extension and enhancement of the Bank’s risk models.
• Implement or prototype risk measurement approaches in IT systems.
• Document risk and valuation models.
• Define business and technical specifications for implementation by the IT team.
• In collaboration with the Risk IT team, support the review and enhancement of IT systems used to measure risk.

Must Have:

• Very good understanding in financial risk measurement and management, including quantitative models for risk and valuation. 
• Strong mathematical finance skills, (ideally with regard to fixed-income instruments, including derivatives) 
• Experience in designing, specifying, and implementing IT systems; knowledge of object-oriented programming, relational database modelling and Python programming.
• Experience in writing clear business and technical specifications, as well as in translating quantitative models into IT solutions.
• Fluent in English 

Successful candidates must be based in Switzerland or be able to relocate (EU passport required)