Analyst / Product Manager

riskthinking.ai; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading risk management company in Toronto is seeking a Product Manager to bridge client needs with capabilities. The ideal candidate should have strong quantitative research skills and at least 2 years in management consulting or financial services. Responsibilities include supporting research projects, evolving climate financial risk solutions, and executing large-scale project management. A Bachelor's Degree and expertise in Python or R are required. This role offers a unique opportunity to innovate within the financial sector.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of experience at a management consulting firm or financial services institution.
• Expertise in quantitative analysis using tools such as Python or R.
• Excellent research skills.
• Excellent project management skills; enthusiastic about working on multiple fast-paced projects at the same time.
• General knowledge of finance and economics.
• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree from an academically rigorous program.

Responsibilities

• Support research and development projects to push the boundaries of climate financial risk measurement.
• Help to evolve climate financial risk solutions to industrial scale software products.
• Execute project management of large-scale engagements; establish well-defined scopes and timelines.
• Research global financial services institutions, including their products and operations.
• Help to grow RTAI product by executing on opportunities to enhance our data through client partnerships.
• Define the product delivery mechanism and go to market strategy.
• Develop expertise in climate science, financial engineering, and risk management.

Job description

About riskthinking.AI

riskthinking.AI Inc. (“RTAI”) is a visionary risk management company. We deliver the data, algorithms, and analytics needed to measure and manage financial risk resulting from climate change. Our firm is led by Dr. Ron Dembo, who previously founded and served as CEO of Algorithmics Inc. Prior to its sale to Fitch Ratings Inc. and later IBM Corp., Algorithmics was the largest enterprise risk management company in the world. Dr. Dembo has taken his patented multi-factor scenario modeling expertise and combined it with a team of cutting-edge climate scientists, data scientists, and computer science experts to create a method for measuring climate risk that is rooted in first principles of financial risk management.

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Position Overview

RTAI is seeking to hire a talented individual as a Product Manager. This individual will play a critical role in bridging complex client needs with RTAI capabilities and executing large scale product development and implementation projects.

The successful candidate will be a creative thinker with very strong quantitative research skills and at least 2 years of experience in management consulting or financial services. This is an exciting opportunity for a driven individual to take on a highly impactful role in helping to build a start-up as it embarks upon innovating cutting edge products to serve the world’s largest financial institutions.

Position Responsibilities

• Support research and development projects to push the boundaries of climate financial risk measurement
• Help to evolve climate financial risk solutions – developed by RTAI researchers in a ‘sandbox’ – to industrial scale software products
• Execute project management of large-scale engagements; help to establish well-defined scopes of work and timelines, facilitate client communications, and lead RTAI in delivering top quality product within project timelines
• Research global financial services institutions, including their products, services, workflow, regulatory environment, and operations
• Help to grow RTAI product by progressing the methodology and executing on opportunities to enhance our data through client partnerships
• Define the product delivery mechanism (e.g., programmatic API, GUI, etc.), pricing, and go to market strategy
• Develop expertise in climate science, financial engineering, and risk management

Technical Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of experience at a management consulting firm or financial services institution
• Expertise in quantitative analysis using tools such as Python or R
• Excellent research skills
• Excellent project management skills; enthusiastic about working on multiple fast paced projects at the same time
• General knowledge of finance and economics
• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree from an academically rigorous program

Additional Requirements

• Intellectually curious and always seeking to learn
• Team oriented; enthusiastic about receiving help and helping others
• Creative thinker that is also very analytical and detail oriented; capable of driving a concept from ideation to development and implementation
• Strong sense of ethics, inside and outside the workplace
• Passionate about solving global issues