Senior Manager, Financial Risk

IG Group

London, United Kingdom
Quantitative market risk framework
Build and own risk models
Python development skills
Own the end-to-end design, build, validation, and ongoing enhancement of IG's critical risk models, writing and maintaining production-quality code throughout

Job Summary

  • Own the end-to-end design, build, validation, and ongoing enhancement of IG's critical risk models, writing and maintaining production-quality code throughout.
  • Lead the migration and development of risk models and analytical pipelines onto cloud infrastructure, working closely with Risk Technology and Data Engineering.
  • Act as a hands-on player-manager: directly contributing to model builds and quantitative work while leading, coaching, and developing the team.

Matching Summary

Own the end-to-end design, build, validation, and ongoing enhancement of IG's critical risk models, writing and maintaining production-quality code throughout.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Quantitative market risk framework
  • Build and own risk models
  • Python development skills
  • Cloud-based risk infrastructure
  • Derivatives pricing and risk sensitivities
  • Player-manager leadership

Nice-to-have

  • Commercially sharp
  • Strategic enabler
  • Curious and forward-thinking mindset
  • Team capability building
  • Business partnership

Key Requirements

  • Significant experience in quantitative risk roles
  • Proven track record of building critical risk models
  • Strong Python development skills
  • Experience building models in cloud environment
  • Applied machine learning in quantitative risk
  • Degree in a quantitative discipline

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