Location Address: Toronto
Contract Duration: 9 months with potential of extension or FTE
Story Behind the Need:
• Project: FRTB (Fundamental Review of the Trading Book), regulatory project for market risk
Candidate Value Proposition:
• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with cloud technology and with new standards for market risk calculations.
Typical Day in Role
• Two main components: requirements and testing
1) gathering requirements and working with developers to implement and complete testing
2) support investigating data discrepancies on an ongoing basis for the business
• Enterprise capital analysis group: working with this group to get requirements on new features, investigating existing
• Coordinating among groups to create smooth integration, front facing
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• Capital markets knowledge: 2+ years
• 2+ years: UNIX and SQL
• Excel Advanced
Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Market risk specific knowledge
• Python, otherwise Excel would be used as outlined in the must have skills.
• Experience in writing large requirements
• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence and GIT
Soft Skills:
• Proactive
• Self-starter
Degrees or certifications:
• Nothing specific just post- secondary; Skills and experience is more important than education.
• Nice to have: CFA