Risk - Software Engineer - Analyst - Birmingham

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in Birmingham is seeking a Risk - Software Engineer - Analyst to deliver market risk metrics, analytics and insights.

You will build scalable workflows and robust processes around risk analytics and regulatory reporting, ensuring data quality and timely delivery. The role emphasizes deep understanding of client activities, cross-domain risk knowledge and the ability to optimize ETL and data visualization solutions using Python, SQL and BI tools.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 2‑5 years of experience, preferably in financial, regulatory or consulting environment

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Python

SQL

R

Java

C++

Tableau

PowerBI

Education

Masters or Bachelors in quantitative discipline

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Alteryx

Job description

Risk - Software Engineer - Analyst - Birmingham

Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Job Description

Market Risk 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 market 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. This role will focus on Market Risk.

A&R has a unique perspective 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.
• 2‑5 years of experience, preferably in financial, regulatory or consulting environment

About Goldman Sachs

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 several opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people atGS.com/careers .

• Locations Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Healthcare & Medical Services

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

• We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

• We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health

• We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also provide state‑of‑the‑art on‑site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

• To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).

Child Care

• We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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