Senior Valuation Control Analyst

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelors/MBA in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics or Business or CFA/FRM/CQF
• Strong experience in one or a combination of the following: Valuations, analytics, financial modeling
• Prior work experience; knowledge of capital markets products
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to articulate complex concepts in a clear manner
• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and across all organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important.
• Prior working knowledge of one or more of the following: Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau, SQL
• Experience in trading, valuing or price validating capital market instruments
• Previous experience with Model Risk Management practices including Model Governance and/or Model Validation
• The ability to effectively manage multiple projects with challenging timelines
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external partners
• Excellent communication skills; ability to clearly communicate with business partners, peers and senior management
• Strong conceptual and quantitative problem solving skills; ability to provide credible challenge
• The role is a derivative valuation specialist responsible for ensuring accurate valuations of and performing validation processes for capital markets products. The team is responsible for the application of consistent price validation policies throughout the corporate wide derivative and cash population including Equity, Credit, Interest Rate, FX, Commodity and CVA. The position requires an in-depth understanding of valuation techniques, models and valuation inputs. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and quantitative skill sets. Individual will be expected to assist with problem identification and solutions, and share best practices. This role will be required to frequently interact with senior management, business unit leaders, and other business partners. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated team player and a self-starter who is accustomed to working in complex organizations, partnering with a diverse group of stakeholders, and achieving results. The candidate should be flexible, be able to withstand challenges and adapt accordingly. This is an exciting opportunity to help ensure high quality standards and compliance with the firm’s valuation and validation policies. This role requires a highly organized individual that is able to multi-task effectively and can quickly grasp complex instruments. Excellent planning and communication skills are required as this position needs to be highly skilled in anticipating and articulating issues and communicating those issues to various audiences within the organization. Modeling knowledge related to a variety of models will be helpful to be effective in this role.