Solutions Advisor (Early Career)
What we do
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What you’ll do
The Risk and Finance Advisory team at SAS helps banks and many other institutions with financial exposure quantify and manage financial risk in their organization. As a consultant, you will provide advisory and technical services on implementation of risk solutions and work closely with team members to assess clients’ business needs relative to the deployment, customization, and implementation of SAS risk solutions. Additionally, you will advise and support clients on data provisioning, analytics, and reporting frameworks. Representative engagements include regulatory capital stress testing and assessment (CCAR/DFAST, Basel II/III), loss reserving (ALLL/IFRS9/CECL) economic capital analysis, PD/LGD/EAD modeling, PPNR/ALLL forecasting, Balance Sheet forecasting, among others. While interacting with clients to help solve their business problems, you will gain a breadth of first-hand experiences in risk analytics, data management, and regulatory capital and financial assessments.
In addition to advisory on implementation, this role will assist the Risk and Finance Advisory team with its responsibilities in presales and proof of concept efforts, implementation training and enablement of SAS consultants and partners globally, service estimates, product content creation, and advisory services.
You will
- Design and technically deliver SAS Risk Solutions
- Provide hands on programming support for customized implementation
- Demonstrate analytical leadership in delivering SAS Risk and Finance solutions and implementations to customers within an agile project delivery framework;
- Create relationships with SAS customers as a trusted advisor and partner
- Interact with clients to assess the functional and operational business needs of Risk and Financial services engagements
- Develop Proof of Concepts, Demos and other technical assets in the context of customer engagements.
- Strategizing with sales team on objectives for customer meetings, understanding how this activity relates to overall sales plans and providing functional solution leadership for sales opportunities.
- Conduct financial risk analysis, explore and design creative new approaches to solving real business problems
- Participate in functional assessments to understand solution requirements for risk and finance frameworks
- Teach best practices on system implementation and to risk consulting teams globally
- Provide actionable, field specific feedback to solution Research & Development
- Provide advisory support and quality assurance on implementations done by internal and external delivery partners
- Analyze 3rd party and in-house systems of record for portfolio and reference data sources
What we are looking for
- Must be a passionately curious, dedicated life-long learner with an analytical mind, strong communication skills to convey the technical to a non-technical audience, and an accountable problem-solving disposition
- Minimum of 1 to 3 years of experience on systems implementation within a financial institution or consulting firm
- BS in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, or other quantitative field preferred
- Experience with third or fourth generation computer programing language and risk modeling in SAS, Python, Matlab, R
- Ability to coach and mentor colleagues on risk and finance technical topics
- Ability to travel at least 25% globally (most travel is domestic).
Preferred
- Globally recognized risk certifications such as FRM, CFA, etc.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex math and statistical concepts to an executive audience
- Experience with CECL and loss forecasting models
- Expertise in regulatory compliance guidelines such as CCAR, DFAST, Basel II/III, Dodd-Frank, Solvency II
- MS in Statistics, Financial Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Physics, Accounting or other quantitative fields
- Additional risk domain knowledge considered valuable – market risk, credit risk, enterprise risk, and/or operational risk. Finance experience a plus
- Ability to develop creative solutions to complex problems, and to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Experience driving risk implementation teams in the financial services industry with specific focus on risk management applications and consulting services
- Experience working with SAS Risk Solutions and SAS Programming
- Work Location Cary, NC
Location:
- Cary, NC preferred location, but open to remote areas.
Why SAS
- We love living the #SASlife and believe that happy, healthy people have a passion for life, and bring that energy to work. No matter what your specialty or where you are in the world, your unique contributions will make a difference.
- Our multi-dimensional culture blends our different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Here, it isn’t about fitting into our culture, it’s about adding to it - and we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring.
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
Additional Information
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the Pay Transparency notice.
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