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Python, Jira, Quant Development, Model Development, Algorithms
My client is a leading global investment bank, currently seeking a Python Quant Developer to work on a brand-new area of the business. The successful candidate will join a leading group of word class quantitative analysts and developers responsible for Risk Models Research and Development within the business. This is a front office business critical role directly linked to revenue generation and will involve developing cutting-edge software libraries and APIs for quantitative modellers as part of a global team.
This role cannot sponsor at this time. Rate advertised is via PAYE. 6 month-rolling renewals
To be successful in this role you will need:
- Python development (expert level) either as a Python Developer or as a Quant Developer
- Model Development experience
- Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures
- Coding experience with one of the following: Java, C++ or C#
- TDD
- Prior experience within finance is a must (ideally buyside or with a major investment bank)
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management experience
- Strong knowledge of financial products, asset classes and risk
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Lead Software Developer required with a solid Java development background with an interest in utilising the best of the best possible software approaches and methodologies. Enjoy working with more than one language? For example, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, React Framewords, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go and more.
The firm’s goal is to make it easy and enjoyable for development teams to go from a business idea to delivery of an innovative production solution. This will be acheived by improving and upgrading our tools, streamlining our processes, automating and strengthening controls, and helping development teams adopt modern ways of working.
A new team of highly skilled developers and expert engineers that work to unlock and other development teams who are struggling. They are also cultural and behavioural leaders who represent the very pinnacle of our engineering culture and can help others successfully adopt the Agile mind-set and DevOps practices that our best teams follow.
Providing teams with CI/CD pipelines which helps them rapidly move a struggling team on to the latest development environments and unlock their productivity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Works with a wide variety of development teams and solves their issues, including coding directly on their project, refactoring, setting up environments and pipelines and coaching on behaviours and mind-setDrives lasting cultural change, including helping to establish an inner-source collaboration model, a DevSecOps mind-set, an Agile development approach, innovative risk management and a culture of continuous improvement
- Works closely with other teams across Developer Engineering, supporting their efforts and contributing their own insights gained from fieldwork
- A positive can do techie, whose optimism and enthusiasm for technology is infectious
- Excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships
- Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
- Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions
- Good, pragmatic judgement of when to challenge the rules and offer suggested improvements
- Obsessed with coding, working on they own projects in their spare time
- An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way
Experience:
- Expert coder in several of our key languages, for example: Java, Python, C/C++, Javascript, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go
- Cloud Native Experience ideally GCP or AWS
- Microservices
- Proven track record of successfully coaching and guiding other developers
- Superbly knowledgeable Agile practitioner, with real-world experience and a highly disciplined approach
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and the underlying technologies used at Citi
- Detailed technical understanding of our operating environments, Linux and Kubernetes as a minimum
- History of developing on a wide variety of architectures, up to and including container based micro-services
- Ideally (but not absolutely required), experience of working in and/or running development teams in a banking environment
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
This function is made up of technical accounting specialists with extensive experience delivering expert accounting advisory services, financial reporting and regulatory change projects to major Tier-1 global banks, challenger banks and building societies. Our cient has deep expertise in complex accounting within the Banking and Financial Services sector such as IFRS 9, hedge accounting, securitisations and other structured transactions, derivatives, and deal accounting for mergers and acquisitions and group reorganisations.
- Technical accounting support on accounting and regulatory change projects such as IFRS 9, IFRS 15, IFRS 16, UK GAAP, FINREP, Pillar 3, Brexit, IBOR reform, and ESG reporting.
- Accounting advice on transactions and financial reporting such as on-call accounting advisory, design or review of accounting policy manuals and financial statements.
- Accounting advice with respect to securitisations and other structured transactions.
- Providing subject matter expertise support on multi-disciplinary finance transformation and deal advisory projects such as business structuring, group reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions. Accounting focus areas include IAS 32, IAS 38, IFRS 2, IFRS 3, IFRS 10 and the UK Companies Act requirements.
- Providing high quality and practical training and education for external and internal audiences.
- Providing valuable expert resources to clients to assist finance and reporting teams on the enhancement of financial reporting processes, implementation of complex finance changes or transactions requiring technical expertise.
Role and Responsibilities
- Manage client opportunities, deliver live engagements, lead small teams and provide input into larger multi-disciplinary teams.
- Respond to clients’ ongoing ad-hoc technical accounting queries.
- Write and review client reports based on analytical exercises (e.g. review of clients’ technical accounting decisions, stakeholder interview) to present findings and recommendations.
- Assist clients in their implementation programme for new accounting change or development and post-implementation review programme through delivering client workshops/training, direct assistance in performing the assessment and/or review of clients’ assessment, review of technical accounting and risk interpretations prepared by clients e.g. IFRS 9.
- Manage and mentor junior engagement team members.
Qualifications and Skills
- Professional qualification: ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent.
- Strong technical knowledge of accounting standards related to financial instruments and/or relevant to Financial Services clients (IAS 39 hedge accounting, IFRS 9, IFRS 7, IFRS 13, IAS 32, IAS 38, IFRS 3, IFRS 10, IFRS 16, IFRS 15).
- Strong experience in the practical application of the above financial instrument accounting requirements within the Banking and Financial Services industry.
- Understanding of the Banking sector and UK and EU banking regulations and the critical interactions between IFRS and regulatory reporting.
- Excellent written and communication skills particularly in writing technical accounting analysis or opinions, delivering presentations and an ability to communicate well with clients both in writing and verbally.
- Strong ability to evaluate technical issues, research and analyse facts, ability to influence and deal with senior individuals, consult and deliver solutions to clients.
- Strong analytical skills in relation to impairment under IFRS 9, effective interest rate and other relevant valuation techniques.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
KDB, Data Science, Multi-asset Trading, Finance
I am currently partnering with a leading global brokerage firm in London to help build out their KDB capacity. My client are globally recognisable as a major financial institution with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong amongst others.
The successful candidate will join the team and focus on expanding their KDB data capture, analytics and reporting platforms. Initially focusing on increasing the breath and scope of the plant, increasing capacity and improving parallel access/processing; the role will expand from there and require the candidate to delve into the workings of multiple asset classes and business lines, extracting the valuable data and delivering products based on that data. This team consists of Quants, Data Scientists and Developers all playing a key role within the business.
At this time, my client cannot offer sponsorship. This role is open candidates with experience ranging from mid level (2-6 years) or senior (6+ years).
Required Skills:
- Strong KDB Programming experience (minimum 2 years)
- Good experience working with algorithms and real time engines
- Experience working on data-driven projects developing well-tested code (TDD)
- Proven experience working on high-throughput systems
'Nice to have' extra skills:
- Financial services experience (particularly multi-asset trading)
- Experience with at least one other programming language (Java, Python, C#)
- Data Science skills
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Cyber Security Lead required for global name in Financial Services.
The Cyber Security Lead will lead a team of individuals who are responsible for protecting the organisations people and information from cyber-attacks. The team’s focus is to serve as the single point of contact for all Information Security & IT Security related queries, concerns and technologies.
The successful candidate will come with a strong blend of technical ability and effective soft management and mentoring skills, with Cyber Security experience a must. The Cyber Security Lead will be business facing , a strong communicator, a leader, and possess first class stakeholder management skills.
The Cyber Security Lead will come with the following technical skills ; Experience with the latest information security threats & vulnerabilities and appropriate countermeasures, Extensive experience with attack monitoring and Intrusion Detection (IDS/IPS), SIEM, Anti-Virus, WAF, Firewalls, patch management, and encryption, Extensive experience with, and in-depth understanding of security vulnerability tools, techniques, and standards used to conduct penetration testing best practices for Incident handling security investigation processes and techniques.
Experience in IT Security/Information Security field, especially cloud, analytics, secure coding, application security and security monitoring is essential
Applications from candidates with security related degrees and relevant industry qualifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM , CEH and OSCP are invited to apply.
For a more detailed job spec please contact Neil Morgan at McGregor Boyall.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
JR530 – Employee Communications Manager – Financial Services – Permanent – London - £45k - £55k + Bonus/Benefits
Our client is a large banking organisation who are looking for a talented Employee Communications Manager to join the business.
You will have the opportunity to work amongst a collaborative and supportive team, executing the employee comms strategy and working with various colleagues to produce creative and engaging communications. The function has a business partner set up so once established you will work with colleagues to develop relationships with key senior executives.
You will have a good work ethic and be adaptable in a challenging and fast paced environment with experience ideally working for a large corporate organisation. You will need to be a good relationship builder, collaborating with Media Relations to align comms and work closely with various functions across the business.
To be considered:
- Ideally worked for a large corporate organisation, global preferable
- Ability to work within a fast paced and challenging environment
- Engaged employees through various channels
- Channel management
- Social media
- Builds strong relationships with key stakeholders, be a trusted advisor to the business
- Collaborate with various functions and support the wider comms team
- First class written and verbal communications skills
- Management and support of events/townhalls
This opportunity is being managed by James Reeves at McGregor Boyall.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Lead Software Developer required with a solid Java development background with an interest in utilising the best of the best possible software approaches and methodologies. Enjoy working with more than one language? For example, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, React Framewords, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go and more.
The firm’s goal is to make it easy and enjoyable for development teams to go from a business idea to delivery of an innovative production solution. This will be acheived by improving and upgrading our tools, streamlining our processes, automating and strengthening controls, and helping development teams adopt modern ways of working.
A new team of highly skilled developers and expert engineers that work to unlock and other development teams who are struggling. They are also cultural and behavioural leaders who represent the very pinnacle of our engineering culture and can help others successfully adopt the Agile mind-set and DevOps practices that our best teams follow.
Providing teams with CI/CD pipelines which helps them rapidly move a struggling team on to the latest development environments and unlock their productivity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Works with a wide variety of development teams and solves their issues, including coding directly on their project, refactoring, setting up environments and pipelines and coaching on behaviours and mind-setDrives lasting cultural change, including helping to establish an inner-source collaboration model, a DevSecOps mind-set, an Agile development approach, innovative risk management and a culture of continuous improvement
- Works closely with other teams across Developer Engineering, supporting their efforts and contributing their own insights gained from fieldwork
- A positive can do techie, whose optimism and enthusiasm for technology is infectious
- Excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships
- Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
- Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions
- Good, pragmatic judgement of when to challenge the rules and offer suggested improvements
- Obsessed with coding, working on they own projects in their spare time
- An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way
Experience:
- Expert coder in several of our key languages, for example: Java, Python, C/C++, Javascript, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go
- Cloud Native Experience ideally GCP or AWS
- Microservices
- Proven track record of successfully coaching and guiding other developers
- Superbly knowledgeable Agile practitioner, with real-world experience and a highly disciplined approach
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and the underlying technologies used at Citi
- Detailed technical understanding of our operating environments, Linux and Kubernetes as a minimum
- History of developing on a wide variety of architectures, up to and including container based micro-services
- Ideally (but not absolutely required), experience of working in and/or running development teams in a banking environment
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
JR511 – Email Marketing Executive – Permanent – Sports Betting & Online Gaming – Manchester - £20k - £23k + Bonus/Benefits
Our client is a leading Sports Betting & Online Gaming firm who are growing their Digital and Marketing functions.
They are looking individuals seeking a new challenge in the Digital Marketing space, with experience in Email Marketing to continue their career development.
You will have the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge across marketing, working with colleagues to develop and implement targeted Email Campaigns, collaborate with the wider CRM team and hold the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The postholder will also be able to develop their analysis and reporting skills whilst managing multiple ongoing projects.
To be considered:
- Experience gained during education or post education in Email Marketing with understand of CRM and broader Marketing
- B2C / Consumer focused marketing experience. B2B will also be considered
- Excellent project management skills
- Analysis & reporting
- Able to build strong relationships and communicate effectively
- Ability to work in fast paced environments
This opportunity is being managed by James Reeves at McGregor Boyall.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
JR525 – Digital Marketing Strategist – B2C Financial Services – Permanent – London & Home working - £50k - £60k + bonus/benefits
Our client is a large banking organisation who are looking for a Digital Marketing Strategist/Planner to join the business.
You will have the opportunity to work with global teams and support them in the development and planning of digital marketing activity. You will work closely with the local teams but also the regional agencies so good internal/external stakeholder management is essential to carry out this position.
The post holder will manage multiple ongoing projects and hold strong planning skills so previous experience in a similar role desirable. Experience in the Adobe stack and Tealium also preferred and managing resource/budget will need to be demonstrated.
To be considered:
- Experience in a digital marketing strategy/planning capacity. This is a not a hands on digital marketing position where the postholder will be executing the activity.
- Experience working in a large complex environment ideal or from an agency background
- Good key stakeholder management
- Experience with the Adobe Stack and Tealium
- Excellent project management skills
- Managed budgets and project teams
This opportunity is being managed by James Reeves at McGregor Boyall.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Cyber Defence Lead required. A technically minded Cyber Defence Lead is required for a premier financial services name.
The Cyber Defence Lead will sit within the Cyber Defence Operations team has a requirement for day-to-day management of security tools used to respond to malware and other security related incidents. The technologies include, but are not limited to, Advanced malware detection, SIEM, DDoS, IPS, threat intelligence and logging/analytics capabilities. The ideal candidate has experience of not only using a wide range of technologies to respond to security events, but also supporting ongoing maintenance of the tools. They will also lead and mentor a small internal , Insider Risk team.
In additional, the Cyber Defence Lead will work with global stakeholders to continually identify information that requires protection, this includes ISO’s, 1st & 2nd Risk and Data Protection. Develop and improve the DLP / Insider Risk strategy to continually improve our capability in this area and Implement said strategy
The Cyber Defence Lead will come with at least 2 years of previous experience working in a SOC or Incident Response position. Knowledge of, or experience working with security (SIEM, NetFlow, IDS/IPS, Anti-Virus) is welcome along with Knowledge of or experience working with security tooling (DLP, SIEM, SOAR) programming experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python, JavaScript etc is highly preferred
The Cyber Defence Lead will be a strong communicator, comfortable dealing with C-Level stakeholders and discussing the latest threats to technical audiences.
My client welcomes relevant Security Industry qualifications such as CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GMON, GNFA, SSCP, OSCP
For a more detailed job spec please contact Neil Morgan at McGregor Boyall.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
