Advisory Staff/Advanced Staff-PI-Financial Services - AZE0004F

Today’s competitive business is all about making intelligent and informed decisions. More than ever, business is about interpreting and reacting to complex data — and they look to us for advice and services they can trust every time. You’ll use your professional skills and experience to make it happen, handling complex procedures across our Baku office practice and across CIS market.

The opportunity

As a member of the Advisory team, you’ll contribute technically to advisory projects. While working under the supervision of senior team members, an important part of your role will be to perform analysis of client’s businesses, conduct research and market analyses as well as assist senior team members in preparation and communication of presentations.

Your key responsibilities

You will work across Finance Performance Improvement where you’ll have access to some of the most recognized organizations operating in Azerbaijan and across the CIS region. You will help drive the performance of client businesses by providing an assessment of the current finance function and identify areas where improvements in efficiency and effectiveness can be achieved.

Skills and attributes for success

You will be professional in your approach, with a natural ability to establish personal credibility with clients. You will also be highly organized, capable of coordinating your own workload and that of other team members, meet deadlines, and quality and risk objectives. You will also add considerable value to clients by delivering work of the highest quality and is able to proactively overcome issues to ensure delivery.

To Qualify for the role You must have 

• Participating in Quantitative Risk engagements, i.e. Economic Capital modeling, Stress Testing, valuation of derivatives and other financial instruments, VaR, developing or validating Credit risk models, developing or validating Risk Management methodologies for various risk types (as e.g. Credit, Market, or Operational Risk), etc.
• Working effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress
• Assisting in preparation of reports and presentations for internal and external users
• Collecting and analyzing business and IT requirements in scope of Data Analytics projects
• Contributing to the setup and improving operating models, policies and processes
• Contributing to the design of enterprise data model, automated data processing flow
• Conducting research and market analysis
• Building strong internal relationships within EY Advisory Services globally
• Developing and maintaining productive working relationships with client personnel

Ideally You’ll Also Have

• Maintaining an educational program to develop personal skills on ongoing basis
• Understanding and following workplace policies and procedures

What we look for

We are looking for candidates with strong client/market focuses and expertise that we can leverage into our clients. Specifically we are looking for staffs and advanced staffs with a strong insight into one of the following:

• Strong academic background including a degree in Quantitative Finance, Computational Finance, Statistics, (Applied) Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering preferred. Master’s degree in Quantitative Finance or equivalent is a plus
• Knowledge of statistical and numerical techniques and the principles of Probability Theory and Stochastic Calculus
• Excellent written and verbal knowledge of English, Azerbaijani and Russian
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Proficient IT skills (Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Ability to execute C++/Visual Basic/Excel routines and analytical programming requirements or experience of Bloomberg, MATLAB, SAS, R is a strong advantage
• Ability to quickly adapt to new environment and work in different teams
• High level of motivation and drive to start a career in professional services
• It is a strong advantage to have:
  • Relevant work experience gained in a consulting organization
  • Experience in working with financial product engineering/research and development environment designing and developing quantitative methods and services for capital market products
• Desire to develop and integrate quantitative skills within a required scope of designing and implementing business services
• Knowledge of capital markets products, methodologies and financial analytics including an understanding of the key concepts of derivative instrument pricing and risk measurement
• Knowledge of Financial Modeling, Asset Pricing, Derivatives and Financial Econometrics

What working at EY Offers 

We offer a competitive compensation package where you will be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, a minimum of three weeks of vacation, and a range of programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer: 

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that is right for you.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we are using the finance products, expertise and systems we have developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we will make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

All the interested candidates should submit their applications and CVs through http://www.ey.com/Careers at job search choosing Azerbaijan as a location. Deadline for submission of applications is 10 November, 2017

Join us in building a better working world.

Apply now.

The deadline for submission of applications is 10 November, 2017.

Only successful candidates will be contacted.