Financial Risk Analyst

Smartwork IT Services

  • Chicago, IL
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 2 days ago
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Role: Financial Risk AnalystLocation: Chicago, IL (Hybrid 2-3 days a week)
Job Type: ContractJob Responsibilites:
  • Interact with regulators, exchanges and other external parties in explaining company's risk management systems.
  • Recommend and implement new and improved procedures, controls and processes.
  • Represent department on corporate projects and new system development.
  • Evaluate new products and recommend needed procedural and system changes.
  • Provide guidance to the model development team challenging the practical design of quantitative models.
  • Collaborate with technology partners to drive strategic plans for company's model development, integration and deployment.
  • Develop functional capabilities within the organization by driving innovation and continuous process improvements.
  • Direct and drive successful relationships with key internal partners and significant external partners.
  • Understand regulatory requirements and drivers impacting development goals and plans.
  • Provide direction to staff during production issues/outages and ensure standards for accuracy and timeliness are maintained.
  • Design and build market risk systems and tools, comparing near real-time P&L to quantitative model-based risk measures of VaR (value at risk) and Expected Shortfall, using advanced streaming technologies like Flink, AWS cloud infrastructure, and protobuff data schemas.
  • Design and build counterparty credit risk system implementing Basel SA-CCR methodology, calculating exposure at default (EAD) for derivatives and securities using advanced architectural framework of data pipeline and computing.
  • Perform data analysis, validation and error-checking on large, complex sets of information using data science classification models
Top Skills:
  • Design and build market risk systems and tools, comparing near real-time P&L to quantitative model-based risk measures of VaR (value at risk) and Expected Shortfall, using advanced streaming technologies like Flink, AWS cloud infrastructure, and protobuff data schemas. This is a non-technical role, understanding the use of these technologies will be useful
  • Design and build counterparty credit risk system implementing Basel SA-CCR methodology, calculating exposure at default (EAD) for derivatives and securities using advanced architectural framework of data pipeline and computing; and
  • Perform data analysis, validation and error-checking on large, complex sets of information using data science classification models.

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