Advisory - Quantitative Risk Assistant Manager - Dublin

Grant Thornton Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton Ireland seeks a Quantitative Risk Assistant Manager to join the Quantitative Risk Advisory Services team in Dublin. You will lead engagements focusing on second-line credit risk in banking, including IRB, IFRS9, Stress Testing, Pillar 2 and Portfolio Management, delivering validation solutions for clients.

You will independently lead engagements, identify issues, and provide updates to Directors or Partners while developing expertise across risk modelling, analytics, and strategy

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in quantitative risk, finance, accounting, economics or related field.
• 3-6 years of relevant financial services experience; model validation is a plus.
• Strong understanding of banking, risk management and regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead assignments and engagements with banking clients in quantitative risk and model validation.
• Develop and implement end-to-end validation frameworks for risk models.
• Provide expertise and develop understanding of business strategy, markets and products.
• Contribute to business development and create client-focused proposals.
• Communicate outcomes clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
• Train and onboard junior team members and oversee project delivery.

Skills

SAS

R

Python

VBA

C++

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent professional qualification (quantitative risk/finance/economics)

Tools

SAS

R

Python

VBA

C++

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking to recruit a Quantitative Risk Assistant Manager for the Grant Thornton Quantitative Risk Advisory Services team.

Job Description

We are seeking to recruit a Quantitative Risk Assistant Manager for the Grant Thornton Quantitative Risk Advisory Services team.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and motivated person to join our team in the area of financial services and with a focus on the banking sector. This will be a challenging and fulfilling role, where you will be a key member of the team in delivering validation solutions in the areas of risk modelling for our clients in areas such as quantitative risk advisory, advanced analytics, risk measurement and strategy. Particular focus will be on second-line credit risk in banking, covering areas such as IRB, IFRS9, Stress Testing, Pillar 2 and Portfolio Management.

The role is to develop, lead and oversee the delivery of a variety of engagements, including helping to identify and resolve client issues, and providing updates to the Director or Partner. The successful candidate will be exposed to a variety of jobs, and will be required to independently lead individual engagements.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead: Lead assignments and engagements with banking clients in the areas of specialist quantitative and risk expertise. This will include the provision of specialist expertise in the area of independent model validation to ensure a best in class offering to the market.
• Implement: Implement bespoke quantitative and qualitative frameworks for the implementation of best in class end-to-end independent model validation.
• Professional Development: Provide expertise and specialist knowledge input and develop a solid understanding of business strategy, products and markets and ensure on-going professional development in contributing to ensuring high quality deliverables.
• Business Development: Contribute to the development of the Firm and deliver on client facing engagements and assignments. Create excellent proposals that show understanding of the market, Client needs and the Firm’s offering. Ensure opportunities are well understood by the Firm and developed by focusing on relationship development.
• Communication: Take responsibility to ensure appropriate outcome of work is communicated clearly and effectively within internal reporting lines and to external stakeholders.
• Team Development: Provide on-going training and support to the team and on-boarding of new hires, particularly from a technical perspective. This will include planning, managing and allocating work to junior members of the team, whilst also leading assignments and engagements.

Skills And Attributes

• A Master’s degree or equivalent professional qualification in the area of quantitative risk (modelling) business, accounting, finance, economics, maths, risk or any related professional discipline.
• 3-6 years experience in relevant financial services roles. Model validation experience will be considered to be of particular relevance but other relevant fields will include: working in credit/ equity analyst role, financial supervision, working in the banking or financial services sector, or financial/ economic modelling.
• Extensive understanding/ experience of the banking sector, the practical operation of companies within that industry and quantitative risk management techniques and approaches.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, decision making, planning and organisational skills.
• Proven ability to critically assess complex/ once off issues and problems with the ability to distil significant volumes of information, identifying solutions for root causes of issues.
• Knowledge of the banking regulatory and legal framework and a deep understanding of the following: retail or wholesale business models, key risk drivers and supervisory approaches.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in particular the ability to relate to senior management, staff and Clients.
• Excellent capability in managing and delivering under tight timeframes.
• Strong ability to utilise statistical/ coding packages such as (SAS, R, Python,VBA, C++)
• Excellent MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills

About Us

We are Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton Ireland is rapidly approaching 3,000 people, in 9 offices across Ireland, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and Bermuda. With a presence in over 149 countries around the world and a global network of 73,000 people, we bring our clients the local knowledge, national expertise and global presence to help them succeed - wherever they’re located.

At GT, we work as trusted advisors, bringing local knowledge and national expertise, with a global presence, to help businesses succeed - wherever they are located. We make business more personal by investing in building relationships and empowering our clients to make the right decisions for their organisation now and for the future. Whether that is working with the public sector to build thriving communities, with regulators and financial institutions to build trust, or with a diverse range of businesses to help them achieve their goals, Grant Thornton Ireland work hard to support clients to act on the issues that matter.

At GT Ireland we don’t just predict your future, we build it

A Career at GT

Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently.

What does this mean for you?

A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for your clients. We respect and value your experience. And we want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best. It is how it should be.

Grow with us

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About The Team

Equity, diversity and inclusion

At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied individuals present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.

We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.

Reward And Benefits

Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive.

Recognition

We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme.