Since our founding in 1996, we have been at the vanguard of financial technology, providing groundbreaking expertise, quantitative analytics and software that redefine pricing and risk management in the financial markets. With the strategic acquisitions of FINCAD, PolyPaths and Kynex, Numerix has further strengthened its leadership position empowering financial institutions worldwide, to transform risk into opportunities with confidence.
The Senior Risk Product Specialist in the Risk Team will work within the Product and Engineering Group to help develop the next generation pricing and risk management product offerings for the financial markets industry, with a core focus on Market Risk. The role will entail working internally across business, research and development teams as well as externally with clients to determine product features and enhancements that will be commercially successful in providing solutions to capital markets participants.
What You'll Do:
Product Specialist
- Understand requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, tasks and workflow analysis.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
- Work with Clients, Professional Services and R&D to analyze product gaps and enhancement requests, draft technical specifications and assist in prioritizing developmental efforts.
Pre and post sales Engineer
- Serve as business and technical expert on pre-sales and post-sales projects as needed. Work may include serving as business and technical resource for active client implementations.
- Develop prototypes based on the aforementioned business analysis by leveraging, Numerix SDK, Python and other tools.
- Work cross functionally with various departments, our clients, as well as the entire Numerix organization as a member of the Risk Analytics team.
What We're Looking For:
- 5 years experience in the Financial Services industry. Front or middle office experience at a sell-side institution, hedge fund or asset manager a plus, with a preference on the buy-side.
- Strong analytical and communication skills are required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into functional and technical requirements.
- Good understanding of and experience delivering market risk analytics including Greeks, Stress Testing, VaR, backtesting and PnL explain. Counterparty credit risk knowledge a plus including XVA and PFE.
- Extensive knowledge of listed, cash and Derivative products including valuation models and methodologies.
- Intermediate coding skills are required with Python preferable.
Extra Credit:
- Exposure to multiple Asset Classes (FI, Commodities, Credit, Equities and FX).
- Good understanding of Derivative transaction life-cycle management from both a Front and Back Office perspective.
- Familiarity with banking regulatory standards such as Basel III endgame/FRTB..
- Working knowledge of front office or middle office systems a plus: Bloomberg, Calypso, Murex, Misys, RiskMetrics, Calypso, Algorithmics.
Where You’ll Work:
This role is based in Ireland, with preference given to those in the Dublin area.
An important note on salary:
The annual pay range for this position is based on the preferred primary location of the role which is listed above. If you are applying to this role at a location that is not the preferred primary location, please keep in mind the salary range will vary and may fall outside of what is listed. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Also note that unsolicited contact from third-party recruiters or agencies will not be considered at this time. We respectfully request no outreach from agencies.
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