Risk Engineering – Analytics and Reporting (Salt Lake City, UT) | Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Risk Engineering – Analytics and Reporting (Salt Lake City, UT) Job Description

Background Analytics & Reporting (A&R) is a group within Risk Engineering in the Risk Division of Goldman Sachs. The group ensures the firm’s senior leadership, investors and regulators have a complete view of the positional, market, and client activity drivers of the firm’s risk profile allowing them to take actionable and timely risk management decisions. Risk Engineering is a multidisciplinary group of quantitative experts who are the authoritative producers of independent risk & capital metrics for the firm.

Risk Engineering is responsible for modeling, producing, reviewing, interpreting, explaining and communicating risk & capital metrics and analytics used to ensure the firm adheres to its Risk Appetite and maintains the appropriate amount of Risk Capital. Risk Engineering provides risk & capital metrics, analytics and insights to the Chief Risk Officer, senior management, regulators, and other firm stakeholders.

• Delivering regular and reliable risk metrics, analytics & insights based on deep understanding of the firm’s businesses and its client activities.
• Building robust, systematic & efficient workflows, processes and procedures around the production of risk analytics for financial & non-financial risk, risk capital and regulatory reporting.
• Attesting to the quality, timeliness and completeness of the underlying data used to produce these analytics.

• Masters or Bachelors degree in a quantitative discipline such as data science, mathematics, physics, econometrics, computer science or engineering.
• Entrepreneurial, analytically creative, self-motivated and team-oriented.
• Excellent written, verbal and team-oriented communication skills.
• Experience with programming in Python and SQL for extract transform load (ETL) operations and data analysis (including performance optimization).
• Experience in using languages such as R, Java, C is beneficial.
• Experience in developing data visualization and business intelligence solutions using tools such as, but not limited to, Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, and front-end technologies and languages.
• Working knowledge of the financial industry, markets and products and associated non-financial risk.
• Working knowledge of mathematics including statistics, time series analysis and numerical algorithms.
• 1-3 years of experience, preferably in financial, regulatory or consulting environment