Financial Engineer (Validation) Job Listing at SS&C Technologies in Toronto, ON (Job ID R22052)

Description

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

Financial Engineer (Validation)

Location(s):      Toronto, Canada

Get To Know The Team:

At SS&C Technologies, collaboration is our superpower. By leveraging each other's strengths and curiosity, we've been able to build best-in-class products, financial model validation team, and culture.

We are seeking a talented individual to join the Financial Model Validation team of SS&C Algorithmics and focus on supporting the model's development and Financial Engineering teams  of our financial risk management solutions.

SS&C is a leading cloud-based provider of software and services for the global financial services industry. Our 20,000+ global clients manage, in aggregate, over $50 trillion in assets and include Insurance, Asset Managers, Wealth Managers, Banks and Asset Owners, Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds and REIT's.

Reporting to the Manager of Validation, you will participate in exciting financial engineering activities relating to quantitative analysis of Financial Risk Management models. You will be involved in verifying our model implementation to ensure the model's accuracy. You will create the technical document and validation benchmark for model verification and regression testing. You will work together with FE team, Model team, Documentation team and Research team to solve many challenging problems in the areas of Financial Risk Management. Your success will be measured by your ability to become a leader in this process, to effectively combine your creative approach with the discipline required to ensure the quality of the model's development and to effectively communicate with other members of the team.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code
• Your Future: RRSP Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

• verifying our model implementation using independent applications tools (such as using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, C, C++, etc. whichever tool you are most familiar with.) and knowledge of financial products to guarantee FE specs are correctly implemented and to assure the model accuracy.
• create technical documents and validation benchmarks for model verification and regression testing.
• work together with FE team, Model team, Documentation team and Research team to solve many challenging problems in the areas of Financial Risk Management.
• build High-level knowledge of SS&C's AlgoOne Application.
• support model development team in understanding model spec.

What You Will Bring:

• 3+ years'  of experience in the financial services industry covering risk management or related areas.  
• CFA or FRM certificate and previous experience with Algorithmics Inc. is an asset to this position.
• Knowledge of Financial Instruments and Modeling Theory, Risk Management, Applied Mathematics, Probability, Statistics, Financial Mathematics, and Optimization.
• Knowledge and skill in using RiskWatch, ASE and RTCE/IMCR applications.
• Hands on experience to validate RiskWatch, ASE and RTCE/IMCR products.
• Strong Oral and Written Communication Skills
• Hands-on programming experience as validation/quantities analysis tools (Python, Matlab or VBA or C or C++) ;
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills; ability to formalize and abstract problems.
• Creativity together with discipline, ability to work independently and as a part of a team.
• Enthusiasm for learning

We will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process. If you require any accommodation during the application and hiring process, please contact: tacanada@sscinc.com

Thank you for being so interested in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate website at www.ssctech.com/careers.

No phone calls or email applications, please. We thank all candidates for their interest, but only those under consideration will be contacted.

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Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.