Executive Director, Securities Quantitative Analytics Senior Manager - Head of Market Risk Analytics - Credit Products and XVA

Location: CHARLOTTE, NC

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, including a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients. We focus on our clients' overall financial needs, with consideration and respect for their total relationship with Wells Fargo.

Markets provides solutions to clients with the means to manage their exposure through various derivatives, lending and cash products across Structured Products Group, Rates, Equities, Foreign Exchange, Municipal Products Group, Credit Sales & Trading.

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Securities Quantitative Analytics Senior Manager, an Executive Director position, to fill the role within the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Market and Counterparty Risk Model Development team. This position will cover researching, developing, implementing, testing, analyzing, monitoring, and documentation of market and counterparty risk management and regulatory capital models, with a focus on market risk modeling for credit products and XVA. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain various quantitative models for traded credit products and XVA for risk management and regulatory capital purposes
• Perform highly complex activities related to financial products, business analysis and modeling
• Perform basic statistical and mathematical models using Python, C++ and Java
• Perform analytical support and provide insights regarding a wide array of business initiatives
• Provide solutions to business needs and analyze workflow processes to make recommendations for process improvement in risk management
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, managers and regulators to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Establishing effective yet automated controls and creating consistent and robust execution processes across models
• Maintaining documentation for key implementation processes across the team with focus on standardization of implementation and execution controls
• Partnering with modeling team to understand model structure and limitation; performing model performance monitoring, creating and sharing regular reports with key stockholders

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Securities Quantitative Analytic experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• PhD degree or equivalent in statistics, mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, economics, finance or quantitative field.
• Master's degree or higher in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, engineering, physics, economics, or computer science
• Experience managing a quantitative team of direct reports, with full accountability for performance, delivery, and execution of analytical initiatives.
• Extensive experience in traded credit products and XVA pricing and market risk model development, implementation, testing, documentation, validation, and maintenance.
• Extensive hands-on coding experience, with Python, C++ and Java.
• Solid knowledge of regulatory capital requirements for market risk, e.g. Basel 2.5 and FRTB.
• Strong financial modeling knowledge in financial mathematics, particularly in stochastic calculus and numerical methods.
• Delivery focused with extensive experience partnering with technology to deploy models in the system.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and effectively organize tasks, manage time, set priorities, work under pressure, meet deadlines, and deliver results with speed and agility.
• Strong interest in financial markets and willingness to provide practical solutions for the business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully collaborating with others in a change driven and dynamic environment and across all organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important.

​Job Expectations:

• This position is subject to FINRA background screening requirements. Candidates must successfully complete and pass a background check prior to hire. In accordance with FINRA rules, individuals who are subject to statutory disqualification are not eligible to be associated with a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. Successful candidates must also meet and comply with ongoing regulatory obligations, which include periodic screening and mandatory reporting of certain incidents.
• Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities or personal investing; affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired. Information will be shared about expectations during the recruitment process.

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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