Risk - Analytics & Reporting - Analyst - Birmingham

Goldman Sachs; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global investment bank seeks a candidate for the Analytics & Reporting team. The role involves delivering risk metrics and analytics, developing workflows for producing insights, and requires a strong background in quantitative disciplines along with programming skills, particularly in Python and SQL. Candidates should have 1-3 years of relevant experience and a passion for risk management.

Qualifications

• Experience between 1-3 years in a financial, regulatory or consulting environment.
• Strong knowledge of mathematics including statistics and time series analysis.
• Self-motivated and can deliver actionable risk insights.

Responsibilities

• Deliver reliable risk metrics and analytics.
• Build efficient workflows for producing risk analytics.
• Ensure quality and completeness of underlying data.

Skills

Analytical creativity

Team-oriented communication

Programming in Python

Data visualization

Knowledge of financial industry

Education

Masters or Bachelors in a quantitative discipline

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

SQL

Job description

Job Description

Background

Analytics & Reporting (A&R) is a group within Risk Engineering in the Risk Division of Goldman Sachs. The group ensures the firm’s senior leadership, investors and regulators have a complete view of the positional, market, and client activity drivers of the firm’s risk profile allowing them to take actionable and timely risk management decisions.

Risk Engineering is a multidisciplinary group of quantitative experts who are the authoritative producers of independent risk & capital metrics for the firm. Risk Engineering is responsible for modeling, producing, reviewing, interpreting, explaining and communicating risk & capital metrics and analytics used to ensure the firm adheres to its Risk Appetite and maintains the appropriate amount of Risk Capital. Risk Engineering provides risk & capital metrics, analytics and insights to the Chief Risk Officer, senior management, regulators, and other firm stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities

A&R delivers critical regulatory and risk metrics & analytics across risk domains (market, credit, liquidity, operational, capital) and firm activities via regular reporting, customized risk analysis, systematically generated risk reporting and risk tools.

Responsibilities

A&R has a unique vantage point in the firm’s risk data flows that, when coupled with a deep understanding of client and market activities, allows it to build scalable workflows, processes and procedures to deliver actionable risk insights. The following are core responsibilities for A&R:

• Delivering regular and reliable risk metrics, analytics & insights based on deep understanding of the firm’s businesses and its client activities.
• Building robust, systematic & efficient workflows, processes and procedures around the production of risk analytics for financial & non-financial risk, risk capital and regulatory reporting.
• Attesting to the quality, timeliness and completeness of the underlying data used to produce these analytics.

Qualifications, Skills & Aptitude

Eligible candidates are preferred to have the following:

• Masters or Bachelors degree in a quantitative discipline such as data science, mathematics, physics, econometrics, computer science or engineering.
• Entrepreneurial, analytically creative, self-motivated and team-oriented.
• Excellent written, verbal and team-oriented communication skills.
• Working knowledge of the financial industry, markets and products and associated non-financial risk.
• Working knowledge of mathematics including statistics, time series analysis and numerical algorithms.
• Experience with programming in Python and SQL for extract transform load (ETL) operations and data analysis (including performance optimization). Experience in using languages such as R, Java, C++ is beneficial.
• Experience in developing data visualization and business intelligence solutions using tools such as, but not limited to, Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, and front-end technologies and languages.
• 1-3 years of experience, preferably in financial, regulatory or consulting environment

About Goldman Sachs

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