eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Oliver Wyman

• Location

  New York, NY, 10016

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  11 Aug 2008

• eFC Ref no

  414395

Oliver Wyman is a leading global management consultancy with group revenues exceeding $1BN in 2006 and over 2,500 staff worldwide. Our Finance & Risk Practice provides the world’s leading financial institutions with custom solutions covering all aspects of risk management,including its application to financial management.

To support our fast, organic growth, we are looking for a few select, highly qualified individuals who can contribute previous project management and subject matter expertise from day one and are enthusiastic about joining our vibrant culture.

Successful candidates will find an exceptional, long term career opportunity in an exciting, meritocratic environment, and 5-7 years perspective to partnership (or shorter, depending on the experience you bring with you).

Qualifications:

Skillset: Minimum 4 years experience in project-based, team-oriented environment, ideally consulting, with proven track record of managing small teams and delivering in fast paced and demanding environments

Subject matter expertise: Significant, state of the art knowledge across wide range of finance and risk-management issues (see below)

Exceptional educational background with BA/S or advanced degree from top institution/program

Enthusiastic about joining our intellectually stimulating, fast-paced and friendly environment that offers exceptional growth opportunities with regards to cutting edge finance/risk issues, strategic & managerial skills, and compensation

Willing to travel, incl. international

Areas of required subject matter expertise:

You will work across a broad range of quantitative and strategic issues in finance and risk management and applications.

Successful candidates will bring deep subject matter expertise in at least three out of our core specialization areas:

Advanced credit risk measurement and management, incl. Basel 2

Corporate strategy, incl. M&A, post merger integration, cost management

MIS and controlling, incl. financial software solutions and IT architecture

Risk organization and governance (e.g. CRO and support functions, ALCO)

Regulations and compliance (e.g., Sarbanes Oxley, current and future Basel Accord, incl. regional implementation plans and status)

Retail risk and strategy (e.g., mortgage banking, credit cards)

Risk-based pricing and value-based management concepts

Trading, valuations, and market risks

Treasury and balance sheet management, incl. interest rate risk/ALM, risk transfer

VaR and economic capital concepts, incl. risk aggregation and allocation concepts