Risk - Analytics & Reporting - Vice President - Birmingham

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global investment bank is seeking a candidate for a risk analytics role in Birmingham. You will develop engaging dashboards, manage processes for risk and capital measurements, and require a strong background in quantitative disciplines with 5+ years of experience. The ideal candidate will also possess programming skills in languages such as Python and C++. Competitive benefits and a collaborative environment await.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Opportunities for growth

Competitive compensation

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Practical knowledge of mathematics and numerical algorithms.
• Background in non-financial risk management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain engaging dashboard tools.
• Enhance and manage processes for risk and capital measurements.
• Test, develop, and integrate new workflows.

Skills

Entrepreneurial mindset

Excellent written communication

Excellent verbal communication

Education

Masters or Bachelors degree in a quantitative discipline

Tools

Python

HTML

JavaScript

C++

Job description

Analytics & Reporting is a group within Risk Engineering in the Risk Division of Goldman Sachs. The group is responsible for reviewing, publishing, explaining, analyzing & communicating the firm's risk & capital metrics.

Risk Engineering is responsible for providing the Chief Risk Officer, senior management, regulators, and other stakeholders with high-quality risk information required to keep the firm's activities within the defined risk appetite and comply with regulatory requirements. Risk Engineering (1) builds and maintains services to identify risks; (2) accesses internal and external data; (3) develops models; and, (4) leverages services, data, and models to compute, review, and publish risk deliverables.

Risk Engineering is organized into the following subgroups:

• Analytics & Reporting (A&R)
• Risk Strategists
• Risk Applications Platform & Data (RAPD)
• Risk Architecture

Responsibilities of Analytics & Reporting include:

• Developing & maintaining engaging approaches to share curated risk insights through interactive dashboard tools.
• Enhancing and managing processes that quantify, review, explain & convey insight for risk & capital measurements for a large, diverse set of financial products or activities covering the whole Firm.
• Developing and utilizing tools & signals to assist understanding risk & capital metrics, at varying levels of aggregation across the Firm.
• Understanding financial & non-financial risk to evaluate, explain and justify features observed in the Firm's risk data.
• Automation engineering to improve control, reduce operational risks & costs and enhance the Firm's metric timeliness & availability increasing awareness of significant risks.
• Testing, developing & integrating new/updated workflows and documentation.
• Providing independent risk & capital metric process consulting for new or existing business activities in the Firm.
• Liaising with groups such as Modelers/Strategists, Technologists, Trading & Investing businesses, Operations & Controllers to understand & explain observations in Risk data.
• Coordinating with firm internal governing bodies such as Risk Committees and executive members of the firm.
• Interacting with firm external governing bodies such as external regulators and industry bodies.

In performing the job function, you will have the following opportunities:

• Work in a dynamic & highly creative teamwork and consensus-orientated environment.
• Exposure to industry leading market data, pricing and risk & capital models for all activities the Firm engages in.
• Exposure to challenging quantitative problems such as modeling risks across the firm and advanced approximation techniques for risk measurements.
• Exposure to large volumes of data (a.k.a 'Big Data') and the tools & techniques to interact with, and determine meaningful interpretations of, such data.
• Development of quantitative and programming skills.
• Development of economic, financial institution and market knowledge.
• Engagement in critical internal risk management activities, and provision of data to both internal and external clients & Firm governing bodies.
• Opportunities to work with senior members of the Firm and a wide variety of groups across all areas of the Firm.

Eligible candidates are preferred to have the following skills and aptitude:

• Entrepreneurial, creative, self-motivated and team-orientated.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Masters or Bachelors degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, physics, econometrics or engineering.
• Practical knowledge of mathematics and numerical algorithms, including statistics and time series analysis.
• Background in non-financial risk management, including operational (execution and processing, cyber, resilience, third party, etc), compliance and enterprise risk disciplines.
• Experience with, or keen interest to develop expertise in, programming skills with various languages such as Python, HTML, Javascript and/or C++.
• Experience with, or keen interest to develop expertise in, development of risk analytics, interpretation & productivity tools for cultivating insights into risk & capital metric data.
• 5+ years of industry experience.

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally.

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.