Job Description:
Job Title: Quantitative Finance Analyst
Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President
Location: Bromley
Company Overview:
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.
One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.
Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
Location Overview:
Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.
The Team:
Global Markets Risk Analytics (GMRA) is part of GRA. It responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring counterparty credit risk and market risk models. GMRA also develops analytical tools to support regulatory, audit, and internal risk management needs for Global Markets.
Role Description:
This role sits within the Counterparty Credit Risk Analytics Quant (CCRAQ) team that provides, maintains, and monitors models, data, and tools related to counterparty credit risk (CCR) of traded products, including models focused on both bilateral counterparty and central counterparty clearing (CCP) risk. CCRAQ supports the Credit Risk and Wholesale communities in understanding the risk drivers of material changes in model outputs.
Responsibilities:
Development, testing, documentation and maintenance of counterparty credit risk models: these will include risk factor simulation models, pricing models, aggregation models as well as back testing methodology
Support of the counterparty credit risk platform, including investigation and resolution of model-related system issues and practical quantitative support to model users.
Improvements to model development infrastructure, such as test harnesses, support utilities, visualization tools
Partner with internal groups including Capital, Risk, Technology, Model Risk Management and Market Risk Management on model enhancement, performance testing and documentation to remediate internal and external requirements.
Prepare developmental evidence and document to support internal and external exams
Identifying common themes across global markets along with improvement initiatives
Communicating the results of this analysis to all model stakeholders including risk management, model development, model risk, senior management and our regulators
Supporting model development in confirming remediation of model issues prior to their being taken live
Driving incremental improvement to our model performance assessment tool set across all business areas
What we are looking for:
Master's degree or PhD required (preferably in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or related field)
Several years’ experience working in quantitative modelling on fixed income or commodity products on behalf of a global financial institution.
Experience with mathematically sophisticated financial modelling, preferably in counterparty credit risk or XVA
Ability to express technical concepts clearly in written and spoken English
Programming skills: key languages are C++ and Python; a solid understanding of sound software development principles
Up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and developments, a commercial instinct, and an understanding of sound risk management principles
Good written and oral communication, interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with personnel across areas and regions
Ability to multitask with excellent time management skills
Sense of focus and rigor in the completion of deliverables
Pro-active behaviour with capacity to seize initiative
Benefits of working at Bank of America (UK):
Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.
Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.
Bank of America:
Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long-term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.
We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience
We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.