Join a team where you will apply your data science skillset to ensure fair value across complex products. As part of the Valuation Control Group, you will play a critical role in ensuring accurate pricing and robust controls across a diverse portfolio. This is your opportunity to collaborate with senior leaders and influence key decisions. We value innovation, analytical thinking, and a commitment to excellence. Make your mark in a role that offers both challenge and growth.

As a Valuation Controller specialising in credit markets in the Valuation Control Group, you will deliver data-driven solutions leveraging the latest technologies to ensure the accuracy and consistency of fair value assessments across a wide range of financial products. You are expected to deliver impactful analysis to enhance valuation control. We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, are solution-oriented and are passionate about new technology. Your work will help us meet regulatory standards and deliver value to our clients and stakeholders.

Job responsibilities:

• Work closely with valuation controllers to understand business challenges and identify where data science can add the most value
• Contribute to the design and development of analytics and models to monitor and assess valuation risk for illiquid credit products
• Help build tools for outlier detection, benchmarking, and systematic monitoring of valuation inputs and outputs
• Assist in developing approaches to infer fair value for illiquid instruments using sparse market data and proxy relationships
• Explore and evaluate new data sources, tools, and techniques (e.g., Databricks functionality) that could enhance the team's capabilities
• Collaborate with technology and quantitative research teams to implement solutions on strategic infrastructure
• Build your expertise in illiquid credit products, valuation methodologies, and the regulatory landscape with support from the team

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Degree in numeric fields or STEM related fields, such as statistics, computer science, data science, etc
• Knowledge and interest in financial markets and willingness to learn about financial product valuation
• Experience working with AI/ML
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and familiarity with core data science libraries
• A self-starter mentality — you're comfortable taking initiative, working through ambiguity, and figuring things out with support rather than step-by-step instructions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• CFA certification
• Experience with cloud-native platform infrastructure (AWS, Databricks)