Description:
To support its strong growth, KPMG’s Financial Risk Management is recruiting professionals in the financial services sector. Our team is involved in a variety of projects with clients exclusively in the financial services industry, including asset managers, pension funds and major Canadian banks. The FRM team carries out engagements related to:
- Investment and financial risk management
- Quantitative modelling and credit risk management
- Implementation of technological solutions to fulfill investment, asset management and risk management needs
- Operational risk management
- Actuarial science
You are highly motivated and enthusiastic about taking on various challenges and working on projects of strategic importance. You have a strong ability to home in on key quantitative and qualitative concepts to develop value added recommendations for our clients. You are a big-picture thinker and grasp new concepts quickly.
You have an excellent academic record and high intellectual curiosity. You are a team player able to adapt quickly to new challenges and demonstrate a keen sense of initiative and resourcefulness. You are disciplined and constantly strive to deliver superior quality work.
What you will do:
- Help carry out engagements regarding model reviews, strategic support and model development. Engagements may cover the following types of activities:
- Quantitative and econometric modelling in the context of credit risk management (PD, LGD, EAD, stress testing, economic capital, etc.)
- Project planning, progress monitoring, and implementation of new functionalities
- Gather and challenge business requirements and translate them into technical specifications
- Development of tools and analytics
- Financial risk management, including the metrics and models used and governance
- Support managers in drafting deliverables
- Quickly grasp concepts and issues that are key to meeting client needs and suggest potential solutions or areas for improvement
- Interact effectively with other team members and clients (internal and external)
- Ensure strategic alignment of proposed business solutions
- Communicate analysis results in a clear and concise manner to relevant stakeholders
- Support the team as needed on engagements involving control and governance reviews or requiring quantitative analysis (including statistical factors
What you bring to this role:
General Qualifications
- Understanding of how financial markets work and who is involved in them (banks, pension funds, private asset managers, etc.)
- Ability to clearly structure and summarize a number of concepts and make compelling recommendations
- Skilled at producing compelling presentations and reports
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Sense of initiative and strong organizational and priority management skills
- Demonstrated ability to learn and succeed in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
- Excellent teamwork and relationship building skills
- A proven ability to handle a broad range of activities with competing priorities
- Highly disciplined and detail-oriented