Assistant Director – Lead Consultant recruitment

The Department / Team

The Enterprise Risk Services team provides consultative services to ensure that our clients get the most out of our products and solutions. In expanding our business globally, the need for local knowledge of client opportunities and working with clients increases. We are looking for talent to grow our team.

The Role / Responsibilities:

You will be an active member of a team that works with leading banks, insurers, and other financial institutions to solve their foremost challenges related to financial risk, including loan origination, deal underwriting, portfolio management, and regulatory compliance.

Specifically, you will:

• Lead project teams to design and deliver customised solutions to senior executives at client organisations, assume ownership of projects, and arrange post-project support.

• Conduct technical design and knowledge transfer workshops on quantitative and qualitative methodologies so that clients can utilise the full potential of our solution. You are expected to train both quantitative analyst and non quantitative credit analysts and executives. 

• Build custom single obligor risk assessment models (such as PD and LGD) using clients and/or Moody’s Analytics data.

• Support business development efforts, including helping our sales teams on qualifying new leads, supporting meetings with prospective clients to provide expertise and recommend solutions in real-time as part of determining client requirements and project scope. It will also involve participating in pitch presentations and proposal writing.

• Liaise with other product and service delivery groups within Moody's Analytics such as the Training Services Group and the Implementation Services Group.

Qualifications:

• Relevant experience in financial markets, gained at either a top-tier consulting firm or within a commercial banking or capital markets environment.

• Experience in building single obligor risk assessment models (such as PD, LGD, EAD).

• Familiarity with modern credit risk management and the requirements of Basel II, III CEBS and Solvency II guidelines.

• Minimum MA or MSc degree with an emphasis in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics, or related quantitative field. PhD or MBA a plus. FRM or PRM or CFA designation a plus.

• Track record of successful project management, preferably within a commercial banking or capital markets environment

• Excellent analytical skills and persistence in analytical and problem solving, quantitative approach to understanding problems in finance

• Must be flexible with travel, with the potential for international travel

• Strong working knowledge of SAS (or Similar statistical package, S Plus or R), Matlab, Access , Excel and SQL Server.

• Fluent in English

Fluent in another European language highly beneficial