Requirements – Data Scientist with Python to support established Risk and Controls Analytics and Digitalization team.

This role is an opportunity for candidates with a data science academic background and (preferably) prior relevant working experience, to join the Internal Audit department
of an Investment Bank.  You will use your recent data science experience to prototype different data analytics ideas and re-usable solutions as well as analyse data to generate insights. You will help visualise data analytics results to present findings with tools and dashboards.

Must have:

• Recent academic or working experience of programming with Python and familiarity with Linux/Unix
  environment.
• You will have a keen interest in developing programming level skills in new technologies (e.g. ElasticSearch, Graph Technology, TensorFlow, etc.)

Preferable:

• Hands-on experience working with data and developing reusable and easy-to-use scripts and applications.
• Recent academic or working experience in data modelling and visualisation.

Unfortunately we are only accepting individuals with a UK work Visa.

Hybrid working.

Tier 1 Banks Advisory Firm, London.
Salary – Up to £40k

If you are a junior Data Analyst with a hunger for knowledge and skills from a vast variety of Tier 1 banks and also have an interest in Data Governance and Data Management, this is most likely the opportunity to grant all your wishes.

If this sounds like you and would like to hear more, and possess:

Essential
Minimum 2 years’ experience.
An Undergraduate degree or equivalent with a minimum 2.1 class.
Coding skills in VBA, SQL.
Robust and demonstrable understanding of IT general controls and experience performing such audits.
Technical awareness and auditing experience of common operating systems, financial applications, and underlying databases.
Evidence of experience in IT auditing and risk management.
Evidence of experience of preparing and delivering presentations.

Desirable
First time passes at each stage of professional exams.
Professional Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA)
Relevant IT audit qualification (CISA,QiCA,CISM etc).
Awareness and experience in applying recognised IT audit/governance frameworks such as Cobit, ITIL,Prince 2.
Tableau, Matlab, Qlikview, Power Bi skills.
Experience delivering Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (IDEA or ACL) to support external audit and internal audit work.

Kindly send an updated CV and contact details to [email protected]

Our client, a top tier financial institution based in Toronto Canada are looking for the best in class Scala developers, Functional programmers, Machine Learning Experts and Data Scientists.  You will join a newly formed product group that is currently developing the next generation etrading (electronic trading) pricing and risk technology platforms using the latest functional programming techniques to deliver highly concurrent real-time solutions.

My client is currently building highly scalable, efficient, cost effective, distributed applications on commodity hardware using a mixture of open source and proprietary technologies. This is a pilot project that is blazing a trail towards a more wide ranging initiative and will involve deep collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, quantitative analysts, business analysts, Dev-Ops engineers and enterprise/solution architects.

We are looking for self-motivated, driven technologists, programmers, machine learning experts and data scientists who want to solve complex problems arising from building distributed and highly concurrent systems. Your primary responsibility will be delivering solutions to the Fixed Income and Derivatives business for this global financial powerhouse institution.

You will be working closely with other members of the global team who include specialists in functional programming, data science, software engineering, machine learning and data analysis and with the front office trading desks to define product features, determine scope, build estimates, design and develop systems. You should have a strong software engineering background with hands-on design and development experience in building highly distributed, scalable and concurrent applications.

Qualifications required:

• MSc or PhD in Computer Science or related degree from an accredited university or BSc with significant relevant industry experience
• Functional programming skills, strong computer science foundation; technology stack include UI : (Drools (KIE), jBPM); RT Processing: (Scala, Apache Spark, distributed NoSQL database using JSON); Near time: (sharding), Big Data – Hadoop; RESTful API
• Excellent mathematical skills
• Experience of building large scale applications, machine learning and big data
• Knowledge of building automated testing and performance testing is a plus

Industry: Financial Services

This role would suit someone seeking a solid foundation for a career in market risk within a tier one bank, from an accountancy, risk reporting or data analyst background.

The successful candidate will provide support to Risk Managers for reporting and monitoring stress exposures for the Investment Bank. You will provide Var P&L for reporting and analysis purposes and maintain data quality understand key market movements and stress changes, whilst maintaining strong relationships with Product Control, Finance, and Technology Risk.

The successful candidate will have three to five years’ experience in a financial services role dealing with traded products, with equities/FX experience preferred.  The ideal candidate will enjoy working in an environment with strict deadlines responding to a wide variety of requests for risk data analysis (VAR and PNL).

The group is responsible for daily limit reports controlling the exposure for risk and manages breaches. The group also project manage wider risk issues including Volker and enhancement initiatives for risk reporting infrastructure.

Essential Skills

• Analytical skills and attention to detail

• Undergraduate Degree

• VBA programming experience and advanced understanding of excel

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

• Experience from a US or European Banking group.

Our client, a large financial services organisation with a global presence is seeking an experienced Senior Market Risk professional to join their market risk team with a strong track record in controls of traded credit or market risk.  The ideal candidate will have considerable experience handling large volumes of data and identifying gaps and trends impacting on risks and conveying complex analysis and requests to clients, stakeholders and senior management.   You will manage Strategic Risk reporting and programs to increase the functions performance.

Essential Skills

• Analytical skills and attention to detail

• Undergraduate Degree

• Excellent communication skills

• People management experience

• Minimum of five years’ experience in traded product/market risk controls in a US or UK regulated Bank.

• Demonstrable project management experience