Senior Quantitative Finance Analyst

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. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

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At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. 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.

Team Overview - Global Risk Analytics (GRA) and Enterprise Independent Testing (EIT) are sub-lines of business within Global Risk Management (GRM). Collectively, they are responsible for developing a consistent and coherent set of models, analytical tools, and tests for effective risk and capital measurement, management and reporting across Bank of America. GRA and EIT partner with the Lines of Business and Enterprise functions to ensure the capabilities it builds address both internal and regulatory requirements, and are responsive to the changing nature of portfolios, economic conditions, and emerging risks.  In executing its activities, GRA and EIT drive innovation, process improvement and automation.

The Global Markets Risk Analytics (GMRA) team under GRA is responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR), the Internal Model Method (IMM), Central Clearing Counterparties (CCP), and Value at Risk (VaR).  GMRA also develops analytical tools to support regulatory, audit, and internal risk management needs for Global Markets.

This role sits within Market Risk Quants (MRQ) team under GMRA. MRQ team’s remit spans market risk models for internal risk management, market risk capital requirements for Internal Model Approach (IMA) approved Legal Entities within Basel 2.5 regulatory framework, and IMA and Standardized Approach (SA) for upcoming Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulatory framework, stress testing such as CCAR, EST, ICAAP, Recovery and Resolution Planning, and Climate Risk. 

Overview of the Role - The position provides an excellent opportunity for a Market Risk Quant to be at heart of BoFA’s model development for global trading activities. In this role the successful candidate will be responsible for critical regulatory deliverables involving complex market risk models. The role will require high degree of motivation and energy as well as high technical/analytical competencies to develop and enhance the firm’s critical market risk models.

Position Overview - As a senior quantitative finance analyst in MRQ team, you will be responsible for independently conducting quantitative analytics and complex modeling projects. Leads efforts in development of new models, analytic processes, or system approaches. Creates documentation for all activities and may work with technology staff in design of any system to run models developed. Incumbents possess excellent quantitative/analytic skills and are able to influence strategic direction, as well as develop tactical plans.

• Develop and enhance quantitative risk models, analytics, and applications in support of market risk assessment and regulatory capital calculation in current Basel 2.5 (e.g., VaR, Stressed VaR, Risks Not in VaR) and/or upcoming FRTB (e.g., Standard Approach, Expected Shortfall, Non-modellable risk factor, Risks Not in Model) regulatory framework
• Develop and enhance quantitative risk models, analytics and applications for the firm’s Stress Testing including CCAR
• Conduct analysis for implementation of market risk models in strategic model platform. 
• Develop model performance monitoring metrics such as benchmarking, back-testing as part of continuous efforts to identify and remediate potential model weakness
• Closely work with Global Markets Risk (GMR) and Front-Line Units (FLU) trading desks for internal risk management, Enterprise Capital Management (ECM) for market risk capital requirements, technology partners for model implementation, front-office pricing model quant developers, and Model Risk Management (MRM) for model risk oversight
• Perform quantitative analysis in preparation of exams, regular dialogues with supervisory regulators across the globe.

Skills:

• Critical Thinking
• Quantitative Development
• Risk Analytics
• Risk Modeling
• Technical Documentation
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering
• Data Modeling
• Data and Trend Analysis
• Process Performance Measurement
• Research
• Written Communications

Minimum Education and Experience Requirement:

• Master’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• PhD (preferred) or master’s degree in quantitative fields such as financial engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, or equivalent
• Solid 5+ years of work experience in developing FO pricing models or market risk models
• Advanced programming skills in Python with 5+ years of experience
• Solid understanding of derivatives pricing
• In depth understanding of Value at Risk and statistical estimation methods
• Strong communication (both written and verbal) and collaboration skills (this project involves communicating with various groups within the firm) 
• Effective thinking skill to be able to independently and proactively identify/suggest/resolve issues 

Desired Skills and Experience

• Work experience in FRTB
• Experience in large scale model platform implementation in collaboration with other teams
• Strong Operational Excellence mindset
• Effective organizational skill.
   

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540), US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525), US - NJ - Pennington - 1600 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 6 (NJ2600)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$125,000.00 - $210,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.