Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis at Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., providing strategic leadership across financial planning and performance management processes.
About the role
- Consultant advising clients in the financial sector on risk frameworks and compliance challenges. Working with large datasets to enhance Anti-Financial Crime capabilities and regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Advise clients in the financial sector on complex financial risk and compliance challenges
- Support banks, insurers, and asset managers in strengthening their risk frameworks, models, and governance
- Work with large and complex financial data sets to detect and prevent unauthorised activities such as money laundering, fraud, and sanctions violations
- Develop and validate GenAI models, utilise machine learning to enhance Anti-Financial Crime capabilities
- Use AI-driven techniques to identify emerging risk patterns, improve transaction monitoring, and support regulatory compliance
- Support clients in developing, validating quantitative risk models and/or reviewing risk frameworks for financial and/or non-financial risks
- Analyze and manage large-scale transactional and customer datasets to uncover hidden risk patterns related to financial crime
- Develop and validate predictive and generative models that support proactive risk identification and regulatory reporting
- Review how clients currently use financial technology, identify best practice improvements, and implement those changes
- Work alongside experienced colleagues to help manage project success and align with client expectations
- Decide which market trends and legislation to research to develop expertise within Zanders.
Requirements
- PhD or Master's degree in Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, Physics, Econometrics, Computer science or Engineering
- 1-4 years of experience in quantitative projects
- Advanced programming skills in e.g Python and Spark
- High degree of creativity, adaptability, and sociability
- Experience in creating NLP and LLM pipelines is a plus
- Regulatory knowledge (e.g. AI act, wwft) and experience in the financial sector is preferred.
Benefits
- A work environment that promotes a healthy work-life balance
- Allowance to set up your home office in an ergonomically responsible way and an internet allowance
- Mobility budget to cater your commuting needs
- Participation in the Zanders bonus scheme
- Secure your future with a pension scheme
- 29 paid holiday days
- A laptop and an iPhone
- An entrepreneurial culture that values personal development, with ample room for initiatives
- Expertise in your chosen field, building skills rapidly alongside diverse clients and consultants
- A truly collegiate environment with enthusiastic and helpful colleagues, fostering career excellence in Treasury, Risk or Technology
- An international and fun working environment
- Cultural night events
- Annual Zanders' trip to a (surprise) location in Europe and many more exciting experiences to come!
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