US/C 2021 Platinion Financial Engineering Senior IT Consultant/Manager

Location:

New York

Geography:

North America

Capabilities:

Technology & digital

Industries:

Technology industries

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

BCG Platinion

As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial – nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. Our unique selling proposition is technology expertise and delivery excellence.

Platinion was founded in 2000. Since then, we have grown continuously and successfully. Today we have offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific and Africa.

Practice Area Profile

BCG Platinion’s presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenge. We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past. At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application and Risk functions. We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.

What You'll Do

At BCG Platinion, our Financial Engineering team leads organizations in best practices at the intersection of quantitative finance and data analytics. Our financial engineering senior consultants are experts in quantitative analysis, modeling financial products, data manipulation, and visualization techniques.

In this role you will combine relevant technical skills to enhance clients’ end to end modeling processes and help support the growth of our Financial Engineering practice.

Financial Engineering Senior Consultants/Managers at BCG Platinion are:

Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing security teams.
Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn’t always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have financial engineering expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They work with teams to implement robust technical solutions. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize their end to end modeling processes.

You’re Good At:

Development, validation, and review of complex models or financial structures
Optimization, Monte Carlo analysis, Scenario design and generation
Data manipulation with a variety of programming languages
Writing model documentation related to clients’ internal requirements
Interfacing with and providing advice to senior leaders of top-tier organizations
Supporting development of risk management topics: Agile, AML, CCAR, and CECL
Working on other ongoing practice support and development contributions

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

You Bring:

Masters or PhD in Finance, Economics, Physics, or a related quantitative field
4+ years of experience in risk modeling, optimization, statistics, or quantitative finance
Experience in financial engineering or risk management with a top consulting firm, bank, fund, or wealth management firm
Strong understanding of financial products and applicable modeling skills:

Free Cash Flow modeling, Capital Budgeting techniques, NPV, IRR
PPNR, CVA, Ops Risk, Retail/Wholesale, Structured products (ABS, RMBS, etc.)

Expert programming skills in Python, SAS, SQL, VBA, R, MATLAB, or C++
Strong data visualization skills in Power BI, Tableau, or DOMO
Ability to manage client relationships
A results-oriented, team-player attitude
Excellent communication skills
Willingness to travel to work with clients and BCG teams. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.

BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world’s best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible—and unlocking your potential to advance the world.

Effective November 1, 2021, all new US hires must be fully vaccinated or subject to a religious or medical exemptions. BCG will consider staff fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the final dose of a WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccine.

Date Posted:

01-Jan-2021

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