Risk - Quantitative Engineering - Vice President - London in City of London

We are currently seeking experienced candidates for the position of Vice President in Market Risk Strats team within the Risk Division to lead Equities Market risk Strats. The Market Risk Strats team is a multidisciplinary group of quantitative experts focusing on market risk and capital models. The team is primarily responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining quantitative models for metrics such as Value-at-Risk, Stress Tests and Capital.

Responsibilities

• Developing, refining and maintaining robust and production quality market risk models (such as value-at-risk, stress tests) and capital models covering Equities businesses. This involves identifying market risk factors for various equity products (derivatives) and building mathematical models to capture their economic and statistical characteristics.
• Implementing, testing and productionizing models and analytics. This involves prototyping models, implementing them and designing tests to ensure the quality of implementation as well as tests for the continuous functioning of the models.
• Performing pricing analyses, risk and capital impact analyses.
• Interact with various other groups such as risk managers, senior managers and stakeholders to explain the results of the models and analytics and provide quantitative advice.
• Leading a team of quantitative analysts, managing their day-to-day activities.

Basic Qualifications

• Strong quantitative skills with a PhD degree in a quantitative discipline (Physics, Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) along with 5 years of relevant work experience or a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline with 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Excellent command of mathematics, modeling and numerical techniques.
• Good knowledge of statistics, time series analysis, econometric modeling and probability theory.
• Strong programming skills and experience with a popular programming language (Java, C++, Python etc.).
• Hands-on experience of developing pricing models/risk models for equities (derivatives).
• Experience in managing a team of quantitative analysts.

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We’re committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran's status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Benefits

• We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location.
• We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
• We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected.
• We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
• We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program.
• We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
• To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers.
• For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
• We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms.
• In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave.
• Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.