Fs-Risk Consulting-Fsrm - Qtb-Senior

Business Consulting QAS
- Quantitative Trading Book (QTB)

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EY's Financial Services Office (FSO) is a unique, industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services that leverage deep industry experience with strong functional capability and product knowledge. The FSO practice provides integrated advisory services to financial institutions and other capital markets participants, including commercial banks, investment banks, broker‑dealers, asset managers (traditional and alternative), insurance and energy trading companies, and the corporate treasury functions of leading Fortune 500 companies.

The service offerings include market, credit and operational risk management, regulatory advisory, quantitative advisory, structured finance transaction, actuarial advisory, technology enablement, risk and security, program advisory, and process & controls.

Within EY’s FSO Advisory Practice, the Financial Services Risk Management (FSRM) group provides solutions that can help FSO clients identify, measure, manage and monitor the market (trading book), credit (banking book), operational, and regulatory risks associated with their trading, asset‑liability management, capital management and other capital markets activities.

Within FSRM, the Quantitative Trading Book (QTB) team assists clients to design and implement strategic and functional changes across risk management, treasury, front office, middle office and back‑office activities with a focus on risk and valuation processes, regulatory compliance, analytics, strategy and organizational structure. Practical implementation knowledge of risk and capital management is a key competency of QTB, focused on regulatory capital, market and counter party credit risk management and broker‑dealer capital requirements.

Clients include large domestic and global financial institutions, broker‑dealers, foreign banking organisations, asset‑management firms and insurance companies with significant capital markets activities.

• Demonstrate deep technical capabilities and industry knowledge of financial products
• Lead components of large‑scale client engagements and/or smaller client engagements while consistently delivering quality client services
• Understand market trends and demands in the financial services sector and issues faced by clients by staying abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client’s business
• Monitor progress, manage risk and effectively communicate with key stakeholders regarding status, issues and key priorities to achieve expected outcomes
• Play an active role in mentoring junior consultants within the organisation

• Undergraduate (4‑year degree) or Masters (Computational Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics or Physics preferred) or Ph.D. in quantitative topics
• Working knowledge or academic experience of statistical and numerical techniques (e.g., Monte‑Carlo methods, finite difference methods)
• Knowledge of mathematical concepts and domain knowledge related to pricing derivatives for any asset class such as fixed income, equities, credit, interest rates, FX and commodities
• Strong risk management/model development/validation knowledge in market risk (VaR, stressed VaR, expected shortfall, etc.) and/or counter party credit risk (CVA, PFE, etc.)
• Knowledge of stochastic calculus, differential and integral calculus (ODE/PDE/SDE), numerical methods, linear algebra, measure theory. Related to pricing derivatives for any asset class such as fixed income, equities, credit, interest rates, FX and commodities
• Development/validation/annual review of equity pricing models, interest‑rate models (HW1F, HW2F, HJM, LMM), stochastic volatility models (SA , Heston) and local volatility models (Dupire) and frameworks for volatility stripping and calibration, bootstrapping of IR curves (single curve, multi‑curve framework),…