Quantitative Risk Specialist

5 days ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada CB Canada Full time
Job Description

**About the Role**

CB Canada is seeking a highly skilled Quantitative Risk Specialist to join our team. As a Risk Analyst, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring market risk models across various asset classes.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain models used for the measurement of market risk (VaR, SVaR, Risk Not in VaR, stress)
  • Work with model users to understand the modeling requirements
  • Understand the features of the products being modeled
  • Make recommendations on model methodologies and implementation details
  • Provide business requirements and user acceptance criteria to IT, and validate implementation using benchmark models which have been developed
  • Document and work with internal validation to facilitate approval of models
  • Develop tools to assess and monitor model performance, including assumptions and limitations, on an ongoing basis for reporting to the various model monitoring governance committees
  • Investigate and remediate modeling issues identified through ongoing monitoring or by internal validation
  • Recalibrate models on a regular basis
  • Re-assessment and testing of models, including assumptions and limitations and benchmarking against alternative models, and documentation of the results in models, whitepapers and annual assessments for review by internal validation

Requirements:

  • Masters in financial engineering, or a degree in another quantitative subject such as physics, statistics, mathematics or mathematical finance and/or a relevant professional qualification, with concentration in quantitative methods and/or finance.
  • Broad product knowledge across various asset classes and knowledge of regulatory & internal risk management requirements for market risk
  • Excellent programming skills (e.g., Python, MatLab)
  • Data management and analysis skills (SQL and Excel required)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills


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