MERJE Ltd
MERJE are partnered with an award-winning bank, trusted and highly rated by over a quarter of a million customers for more than a decade.
They offer a range of specialist mortgages, savings accounts and business finance solutions.
Your new team:
The Modelling team acts as the centre of excellence for all financial modelling and analytics within the Finance & Treasury division. Analytics and data science are core to the Group’s strategy, and this team are at the forefront of implementing these for stakeholders up to board level, as well as championing the culture of “staying curious” and utilising the latest technology.
The team develops, implements, and validates various models that help determine the structure of the balance sheet. At the same time, the team also works on complicated financial models, in collaboration with Financial Controllers, Treasury Markets, Pricing etc.
It is an enjoyable and exciting, ever-changing area to work in, and at the heart of Finance and the wider Group’s business.
What will your day look like?
- Participate fully in all aspects of the model lifecycle for Finance and Treasury’s models
- Perform ad hoc data analysis where required, both small and large scale pieces of work
- Become one of the “Go to” people in Finance & Treasury when businesses have modelling or data needs
- Adhere to and participate in the group-wide Model Management Framework
- Use your skills to assist in other activities and work-streams within Finance where necessary, for example data analysis for execs or ILAAP and ICAAP
What will be expected from you?
- A high-level of expertise with quantitative financial models, in particular Treasury, Balance Sheet or Finance models
- Understanding and experience of the full model life-cycle: Selection, Development, Validation, Calibration, Implementation
- Data analysis experience and ability
- Working within Treasury/Risk/ALM/Analytics for a significant period of time, preferably at a retail bank/building society
Technical Experience:
- Coding experience in a statistical language (R, Python, S+, SAS, etc.), preferably R and/or Python
- Implementation of financial models for ALM, Treasury, Accounting or FInance, preferably within QRM or Anaplan
- Excellent Excel and VBA
- Good understanding of data, statistics and applied financial modelling
- Data Science skillset – data-mining, visualisation (eg: Tableau), ML & AI, presenting, coding (SQL, Python, R, etc)
What can you expect from our Client?
- A friendly and flexible culture, the same as how we work with our customers.
- A growing organisation that means there’s lots of opportunities to progress
- A drive for continuous improvement, which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
- And of course, you will be rewarded competitively, with a good range of core benefits and bonus potential.