Regular or Temporary:
Regular
Language Fluency: English (Required)
Work Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Please review the following job description:
JOB SUMMARY
The position is for a Quantitative Analyst within Truist's Financial Management Quantitative Analytics department. Financial Management Quantitative Analytics is responsible for the development and documentation of models supporting capital stress testing, asset and liability management, NII forecasting, EVE, and other corporate initiatives. The incumbent serves as a contributor supporting end-to-end execution of analytics projects, including model development, documentation and deployment. Quantitative analytics projects support Corporate Treasury's objective to model the behavior of Truist's balance sheet and income statement in support of capital stress testing, allowance for loan and lease losses, balance sheet manage, and other corporate initiatives.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
1. Develop models and analytics in support of CCAR, internal stress testing, capital planning, NII forecasting, ALM, EVE, and those associated models and qualitative methodologies.
2. Contribute to a positive and highly engaged team by championing a positive working environment through relationship development with peers, direct reports, and leadership - proactively seek guidance, clarification, and feedback
3. Apply with limited support documentation, development, and implementation standards and procedures.
4. Utilizing limited instruction, exhibit the ability absorb direction and develop and implement quantitative models consistent with management expectations.
5. With support address model validation recommendations and remediate issues.
6. Utilize quantitative techniques to measure and analyze model risks and form opinions on the strengths and limitations of the respective models.
7. Build, monitor, and review existing models. This includes conducting ongoing communication with model owners and model developers during the course of the entire model development and model review process.
8. Facilitate user and management understanding and acceptance of proposed models by preparing high quality documentation, including presentations, explaining the model and its validity for its intended use. Provide support during verbal presentations to stakeholders and oversight groups.
9. For deployed models, develop and execute ongoing model verification, performance reporting, and assist with change management processes and procedures, including but not limited to, back testing, including outcomes analysis. Work with model users and stakeholders to ensure models are fulfilling the objectives set for them.
10. Ensure that models comply with BB&T requirements for model development, documentation, ongoing verification, coding standards, change management and other policy requirements; address model validation recommendations and remediate issues.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. 2+ years' experience in financial services industry with focus on model development and quantitative analytics - PhD in a quantitative discipline may substitute for experience expectations
2. Master's degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Actuarial Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or other applied quantitative science, or equivalent education and related training
3. Demonstrated experience performing advanced quantitative analysis and developing econometric models
4. Practice analyzing and manipulating large and complex data to identify data integrity issues and researching industry practices related to model methodologies.
5. Contribute to a positive and highly engaged team
Preferred Qualifications:
1. PhD in a quantitative discipline preferred
2. Demonstrated execution within of quantitative model development standards, procedures, and practice
3. Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills
4. Proficiency utilizing Microsoft Office tools to prepare and present analysis
5. Experience with skills SAS and SQL (or significant demonstrated experience with alternative quantitative programming languages - R, Matlab, etc.)
6. Excellent analytical and quantitative skills
Atlanta, GA
SunTrust Banks, Inc. operates as the holding company for SunTrust Bank that provides various financial services for consumers, businesses, corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit entities in the United States. It operates in two segments, Consumer and Wholesale. The Consumer segment provides deposits and payments; home equity and personal credit lines; auto, student, and other lending products; credit cards; discount/online and full-service brokerage products; professional investment advisory products and services; and trust services, as well as family office solutions. This segment also offers residential mortgage products in the secondary market.
The Wholesale segment provides capital markets solutions, including advisory, capital raising, and financial risk management; asset-based financing solutions, such as securitizations, asset-based lending, equipment financing, and structured real estate arrangements; cash management services and auto dealer financing solutions; investment banking solutions; and credit and deposit, fee-based product offering, multi-family agency lending, advisory, commercial mortgage brokerage, and tailored financing and equity investment solutions. This segment also offers treasury and payment solutions, such as operating various electronic and paper payment types, which comprise card, wire transfer, automated clearing house, check, and cash; and provides services clients to manage their accounts online.
The company offers its products and services through a network of traditional and in-store branches, automated teller machines, Internet, mobile, and telephone banking channels. As of December 31, 2018, it operated 1,218 full-service banking offices located in Florida, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia. SunTrust Banks, Inc. was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.