Senior IT Recruiter - Hiring External IT Staff in Switzerland
Source Technology is working alongside a customer in the Banking sector to hire a Freelance Quant Risk Analyst.
The Risk Management team needs a Quantitative Risk Analyst to ensure that financial risks arising from banking operations are identified, measured, controlled, monitored and reported. You will develop quantitative risk measurement and valuation methodologies across all financial risk types, in line with sound market practice and regulation.
The ideal candidate has a mathematical financial background and experience in quantitative risk models as well as their production implementation or prototyping (e.g., using Python).
Key Responsibilities:
* Review, extend and enhance the Bank's risk models.
* Implement or prototype risk measurement approaches in IT systems.
* Document risk and valuation models.
* Define business and technical specifications for implementation by the IT team.
* Collaborate with the Risk IT team to review and enhance IT systems used to measure risk.
Required Skills:
* Strong understanding of financial risk measurement and management, including quantitative models for risk and valuation.
* Mastery of mathematical finance skills, ideally with regard to fixed-income instruments, including derivatives.
* Experience in designing, specifying, and implementing IT systems; knowledge of object-oriented programming, relational database modeling, and Python programming.
* Ability to write clear business and technical specifications, as well as translate quantitative models into IT solutions.
* Fluent English language skills.
Additional Requirements:
* Must be based in Switzerland or have the ability to relocate (EU passport required).
Job Details:
Mid-Senior level position.
Contract employment type.
Staffing and Recruiting job function.