Sr Quant Finance Analyst

4 weeks ago


Charlotte, North Carolina, United States Bank of America Full time

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us

Job Description:
This job is responsible for conducting quantitative analytics and complex modeling projects for specific business units or risk types. Key responsibilities include leading the development of new models, analytic processes, or system approaches, creating technical documentation for related activities, and working with Technology staff in the design of systems to run models developed. Job expectations may include the ability to influence strategic direction, as well as develop tactical plans.

Responsibilities:

Performs end-to-end market risk stress testing including scenario design, scenario implementation, results consolidation, internal and external reporting, and analyzes stress scenario results to better understand key driversLeads the planning related to setting quantitative work priorities in line with the bank s overall strategy and prioritizationIdentifies continuous improvements through reviews of approval decisions on relevant model development or model validation tasks, critical feedback on technical documentation, and effective challenges on model development/validationMaintains and provides oversight of model development and model risk management in respective focus areas to support business requirements and the enterprise's risk appetiteLeads and provides methodological, analytical, and technical guidance to effectively challenge and influence the strategic direction and tactical approaches of development/validation projects and identify areas of potential riskWorks closely with model stakeholders and senior management with regard to communication of submission and validation outcomesPerforms statistical analysis on large datasets and interprets results using both qualitative and quantitative approachesSkills:Critical ThinkingQuantitative DevelopmentRisk AnalyticsRisk ModelingTechnical DocumentationAdaptabilityCollaborationProblem SolvingRisk ManagementTest EngineeringData ModelingData and Trend AnalysisProcess Performance MeasurementResearchWritten CommunicationsMinimum Education Requirement: Master s degree in related field or equivalent work experienceConsumer Model Development & Operations Sr. Quantitative Financial Analyst
Job Description and Role Responsibilities

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has an opportunity for a Sr. Quantitative Financial Analyst within our Global Risk Analytics (GRA) function. GRA is a sub-line of business within Global Risk Management (GRM). GRA is responsible for developing a consistent and coherent set of models and analytical tools for effective risk and capital measurement, management and reporting across Bank of America. GRA partners with the Lines of Business and Enterprise functions to ensure that its models and analytics address both internal and regulatory requirements, such as quarterly Enterprise Stress Testing (EST), the annual Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), and the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) accounting standard. GRA models follow an iterative and ongoing development life cycle, as the bank responds to the changing nature of portfolios, economic conditions and emerging risks. In addition to model development, GRA conducts model implementation, data management, model execution and analysis, forecast administration, and model performance monitoring. GRA drives innovation, process improvement and automation across all of these activities.

Overview of Consumer Model Development

The Consumer Model Development & Operations (CMDO) team is part of Global Risk Analytics. It provides quantitative solutions to enable effective risk and capital management across the Retail and Global Wealth & Investments Management (GWIM) lines of business.

The team places strong emphasis on delivering world class quantitative solutions for Front Line Unit (FLU) model owners and stakeholders through a disciplined and iterative development process. The team has responsibilities across a number of areas:

Quantitative Modeling Develop and maintain risk and capital Models and Model Systems across Retail and GWIM product lines. Models and Model Systems provide insight into many risk areas, including loan default, exposure at default (EAD), loss given default (LGD), delinquency, prepayment, balances, pricing, risk appetite, revenues and cash flows.
Quantitative Development Architect, implement, maintain, improve and integrate quantitative solutions on strategic GRA platforms. Outputs include GRA libraries that perform consumer risk model calculations, analytical tools, processes and documentation. Partner in defining, adopting, and executing GRA s technical strategy.
Risk and Capital Management Capabilities Build best in class quantitative solutions that enable the Retail and GWIM lines of business to effectively manage risk and capital, through the application of the disciplined BAU development process that includes extensive interaction with the FLU model owners and stakeholders throughout the quantitative lifecycle.
Infrastructure Partner in driving forward the infrastructure to support the goals of GRA through code efficiencies, and expansion of quantitative capabilities to better leverage infrastructure and computational resources.
Documentation Deliver concise, quantitative documentation to inform stakeholders, meet policy requirements, and enable successful engagement in regulatory exams (e.g., CCAR, CECL) via automated, modularized, and standardized documentation and presentations.

Required Education, Skills, and Experience
Successful candidates will have a Masters or PhD in Math, Economics, Statistics, or similar discipline, and a minimum 5 years relevant experience.

Successful candidates will possess the following skills:
First-hand experience in data analysis, statistical model estimation, implementation, and testing
Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, Pandas and NumPy
Quantitative documentation experience with LaTeX
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to communicate effectively in verbal, written and presentation form ensuring clear message delivery, including internal and external parties
Ability to translate business strategy into effective work programs and processes

Desired Skills and Experience
The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and experience:
Experience with HDFS, HIVE, and Spark
Ability to apply CI/CD tools (e.g.,, Git, JIRA, Confluence, Pytest, Jenkins, and SonarQube) in model development process
In-depth business knowledge of credit card and consumer vehicle lending
Experience with CCAR and CECL

Shift:1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 40



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