Computational Finance Technology and Regulation Analyst

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Department Summary:

MITRE is currently seeking motivated and qualified applicants for a Computational Finance (Comp Fi) Scientist to join our Financial Innovation Laboratory (FINLab) and Model-Based Analytics Department (L144) in the Modeling, Simulation, Experimentation and Analytics Division. In FINLab, our Comp Fi scientists provide expert analysis and consulting to our Federal Government clients in transforming their technologic and regulatory processes to enhance the safety, stability, and security of the US Banking System, market infrastructure, and Financial Markets.

Join a highly skilled team executing research, performing analyses, and advising multiple stakeholders. These studies of national significance will be executed in collaboration with industry, academic, and governmental experts and stakeholders. This provides us with unprecedented access to expertise, ideas, and data. You will be a critical Finance subject matter expert (SME) as part of a growing, agile, multidisciplinary team working with academics, the Financial Sector, and US Financial Regulators.

Competitive applicants will have demonstrated expertise in at least two of the following areas:
Corporate Finance, Financial Market Microstructure and Regulation, Payment Systems, Fintech, Regulatory Tech and Supervisory Tech, Financial Analytics, Market Modeling and Analysis.

Job Description:

• Develop innovative, multidisciplinary approaches for analyzing financial data and trends that may impact the US financial system and markets
• Advise government sponsors on the technologies and business processes impacted by the transformation of Faster Payments and Payment models
• Provide expert analysis and/or develop research proposals on issues related to improving financial regulation and banking supervision, adopting new technologies to support distributed ledger or faster payments, or implementing advanced financial analytics
• Understand US, mission partner, and adversary capabilities and assess potential threats to U.S. financial stability and security.
• Conduct analytic and simulation-based analyses using financial data to provide new insights which support policy-level decision making.
• Provide US Treasury and related sponsors with commercial and market analysis of national interest areas, and methodologies to identify mitigation alternatives

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in computational finance or quantitative finance.
• Very strong academic credentials in quantitative or computational finance
• Extensive experience and expertise in financial analysis and market modeling.
• Ability to bridge finance, computational, and data analytic domains.
• Thrives in working in a technical environment with multidisciplinary teams on critical national security challenges.
• Passion for developing new technology and analytics for solving national challenges.
• Excellent analytic writing…