Assoc. Director, Quant. Analyst recruitment
The Company:
Barrie Hibbert Limited is a leading provider of risk management modeling tools for insurance companies worldwide. Barrie Hibbert was acquired as a subsidiary by Moody's Corporation in 2011 and forms part of the Moody's Analytics Risk Management Software segment. The acquisition broadens Moody's Analytics suite of software solutions for the insurance and pension sectors. With more than 150 customers around the world, Barrie Hibbert's Economic Scenario Generator (ESG) is widely recognized as an industry standard for valuing and projecting assets and liabilities and assessing risk and capital positions.
Moody's Analytics helps capital markets and credit risk management professionals worldwide address an evolving marketplace with confidence. Across credit, economics and financial risk management, the company advances best practices for measuring and managing risk. By providing leading-edge software, advisory services, and research, including the proprietary analysis from Moody's Investors Service, Moody's Analytics can integrate and customize its offerings to address specific business challenges.
Moody's Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO), which reported revenue of $2.3 billion in 2011, employs approximately 6,100 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 28 countries.
Purpose of Role:
Reporting to the Director, Head of Quantitative Client Services, North America, you will play a leading role in supporting the Barrie Hibbert clients in the North American region. This is a highly prospect (on a pre-sales basis) and client (on a post sales basis) focused role; you will be interacting with prospects and clients on a daily basis so a strong commercial awareness and willingness to engage prospects and clients is key. You will be able to meet a fast-moving set of demands with high quality solutions.
Responsibilities
You will have responsibility in a number of key areas:
-Delivering expert support to our sales and CRM activities across the North American region. This will frequently require you to take part in pre-sales meetings, run workshops and training courses, and provide intensive quantitative technical assistance to firms evaluating our services. During the sales process, the team may be required to perform short-timescale development of our services in order to meet client demands.
-Developing close relationships with clients to improve client retention.
-Working with the local team and with our Production Services team in the UK to deliver a range of model-based services such as economic scenarios model calibrations.
-Working with the local team and with our Research teams in the UK on consultancy projects addressing specific client issues.
-Providing expert technical support and training to clients across our range of our products and services.
-Identifying issues with working practices, and working collaboratively within the team, take the lead in driving solutions and improvements.
-Coaching and developing team members, helping them develop their skills and career path.
-The role requires working in a small (4-6) team so a willingness to take on a variety of tasks is important.
Qualifications
-Master's Degree is required.
-PhD in relevant or quantitative (e.g. economics, math, physics) discipline is preferred.
-Professional Qualifications e.g. actuarial, CFA or FRM are preferred.
Experience
-3-5 years work experience in a financial institution is required.
-Experience of working with stochastic models is preferred.
-A good understanding of relevant financial industries - insurance (Life or PC), pensions, and asset management is preferred.
-Ability to rapidly develop high quality spreadsheets and applications which are consistent with Moody's/BH standards and use ESG/calibration APIs is required.
-Strong understanding of stochastic modelling and its application to the insurance sector is desirable.
-Strong team work and collaboration skills are required.
Key Tech and Non-Tech Skills
Critical Behaviours:
Driving for results
-In order to meet the demands of this role, you will be required to demonstrate resourcefulness, innovation and a client-focused attitude to deal with issues as they arise.
-Overcomes obstacles to achieve results.
-Does not give up easily, persists.
-Challenges self and the organization to set high expectations.
-Exerts the personal effort and hard work to achieve results.
Functional acumen
-Has the functional knowledge and skills to be effective in his/her job.
-Regularly maintains and improves his/her functional knowledge and skills to continue to be effective in his/her job.
-Actively seeks assignments and roles that expand or improve his/her functional abilities
-Displays a high level of competence in the functional areas of his/her job .
-Has a level of functional expertise that allows (would allow) him/her to train or educate others.
Teamwork and Collaboration
-Builds and maintains cooperative work relationships with others. The role will involve long-distance relationships between regional offices.
-Listens to and values the input of others.
-Collaborates effectively in meetings and informal interactions.
-Commits to supporting the larger group effort. The role requires working in a small (4-6) team so a willingness to take on a variety of tasks is important.
-Assists others in the completion of their tasks to support group goals.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Moody's Corporation is committed to equal opportunities and diversity in its recruitment practices. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are dedicated to the fair and equal treatment of potential and existing employees, candidates and clients regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, age or any other characteristic protected by law.
