Deloitte

The Programme

The FSA graduate programme offers you the opportunity to be rotated across all our business areas for a period of up to 18 months, giving you extensive exposure to a broad range of quantitative risk management techniques, such as risk and financial modelling, design and implementation of risk / capital / funding frameworks, stress testing, regulatory developments, financial instrument valuations and pricing.

Our Assurance services go beyond merely meeting statutory requirements. We help our clients perform better and achieve their business objectives. We listen to their needs, think about the business implications and tailor our approach accordingly. In today's changing global economy, businesses need trusted advisors.

Because Assurance professionals at Deloitte take the time to understand our clients' business as well as the industries in which they operate, we can help them identify major risks and opportunities over and above performance of the traditional financial reporting function.

Our services include:

• Audit
• Accounting and Auditing
• Financial Institutions Services Team
• Financial Services Advisory
• Actuarial & Insurance Solutions
• Actuarial & Analytics Solutions

What You Will Do

• Assisting in the development and validation of financial and risk models
• Other responsibilities include assisting in the creation of market leading solutions and thought leadership; building strong clients relationships and general problem solving
• Reporting to the Senior Manager who heads up the team you’re assigned to, but also reporting to the managers leading individual projects

Required Skills and Abilities

Experience:

• No previous work experience is required

Core technical skills:

• Build financial and risk models
• Automate existing financial and risk models
• Perform statistical analysis (e.g. clustering and segmentation)
• Valuation of options, derivatives and exotic structures
• Perform numerical valuation techniques, including Monte Carlo and decision trees
• Construct yield curves

Computer literacy:

• Experience in SAS, Matlab, C#, Python or VBA is an advantage

Qualifications:

• University Graduate: BSc
• Preferably Honours or Masters
• Actuarial Science, Advanced Maths of Finance / M. Phil, Electronic Engineering, Statistics, Business Mathematics & Informatics or other mathematical sciences degrees

What we are looking for:

• Strong interpersonal and communication (written and oral) skills
• Technical proficiency and an eagerness to expand skills and develop knowledge
• Strong problem solving capabilities
• The ability to thrive in a busy environment with multiple deliverables
• The ability to interact in a team environment
• The ability to find innovative solutions to complex and often unusual challenges
• Flexibility i.e. the ability to adapt quickly to changing environments and changing requirements