This is an exciting opportunity for you to progress your career within Credit Risk, within a team that takes a strategic lead across group functions
Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management and investment management services with an extensive international presence in Europe, the United States, Africa and Asia.
With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 145,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for more than 49 million customers and clients worldwide.
The role provides technical support, review, challenge and oversight of all development and validation of wholesale models across areas of the group, to ensure high quality credit risk measurement policies, processes and systems are in place. Requires a combination of advanced mathematical model development, plus realism and pragmatism to drive model development and use in a wide variety of businesses.
Experience, qualifications and other requirements specific to the role:
• Highly numerate, as demonstrated by First degree, Masters or PhD (or equivalent) in a highly numerate subject such as Mathematics, Operational Research, Financial Engineering
• Experience in the use statistics packages, such as SAS, to perform analysis
• Expert user of Microsoft Excel
• Post-university experience in financial model building and testing for a major financial institution
