Position Title: Quantitative Finance Analyst

Location: Jersey City, Atlanta, Charlotte, Delaware NJ, and Austin

Position Summary:

Overview of Global Risk Analytics

 Bank of America Merrill Lynch has an opportunity for a Quantitative Finance Analyst (B5) within our Global Risk Analytics (GRA) function. GRA is a sub-line of business within Global Risk Management (GRM).  GRA is responsible for developing a consistent and coherent set of models and analytical tools for effective risk and capital measurement, management and reporting across Bank of America. GRA partners with the Lines of Business and Enterprise functions to ensure that its models and analytics address both internal and regulatory requirements, such as quarterly Enterprise Stress Testing (EST), the annual Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), and the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) accounting standard.  GRA models follow an iterative and ongoing development life cycle, as the bank responds to the changing nature of portfolios, economic conditions and emerging risks.  In addition to model development, GRA conducts model implementation, data management, model execution and analysis, forecast administration, and model performance monitoring. GRA drives innovation, process improvement and automation across all of these activities. 

Overview of the Role

As a Quantitative Finance Analyst within Global Risk Analytics, your main responsibilities will involve:

·        Applying quantitative methods to develop capabilities that meet line of business, risk management and regulatory requirements

·        Maintaining and continuously enhancing capabilities over time to respond to the changing nature of portfolios, economic conditions and emerging risks

·        Understanding and executing activities that form the end-to-end model development and use life cycle

·        Identifying requirements from the teams which improve the group’s ability to generate insights and understanding of portfolio risk, model accuracy, and forecast reasonability

·        Clearly documenting and effectively communicating quantitative methods as part of ongoing engagement with key stakeholders, including the lines of business, risk managers, model validation, technology

Position Overview

 Responsible for independently conducting quantitative analytics and modeling projects. Responsible for developing new models, analytic processes or systems approaches. Creates documentation for all activities and works with Technology staff in design of any system to run models developed. Incumbents possess excellent quantitative/analytic skills and a broad knowledge of financial markets and products..

Required Qualifications

Required Education, Skills, and Experience

• Graduate degree in quantitative discipline (e.g. Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Finance,
  Physics)
  2-3 years of relevant experience in model development, statistical work, data analytics or quantitative research, or PhD
  Strong Programming skills e.g. R, Python, SAS, SQL, R or other languages
  Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
  Strong communication skills and ability to effectively communicate quantitative topics to technical and non-technical audiences
  Effectively presents findings, data, and conclusions to influence senior leaders
  Ability to work in a large, complex organization, and influence various stakeholders and partners
  Strong team player able to seamlessly transition between contributing individually and collaborating on team projects;

Desired Skills and Experience

 • Experience with complex data architecture, including modeling and data science tools and libraries, data warehouses, and machine learning
• Knowledge of predictive modeling, statistical sampling, optimization, machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques
• Ability to extract, analyze, and merge data from disparate systems, and perform deep analysis
• Experience designing, developing, and applying scalable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence solutions
• Experience with data analytics tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau)
• Experience with LaTeX
• Sees the broader picture and is able to identify new methods for doing things
• Broad understanding of financial markets and products

How to Apply:

Please email resumes to Erika Rivera: errivera@teksystems.com