Senior Quantitative IT Consultant / Expert – Risk Project
Duration: Minimum 1 year | Start date: Mid-January 2026 | Location: Paris | Daily rate: Varies depending on experience
We are looking for a consultant IT Quant Senior / Expert on behalf of one of our banking clients, within the framework of a project to transform the tools used to calculate risk models.
Context
The Risk Management department, within its Validation division, is leading a strategic project to migrate several calculation modules (stress tests, budget projections, simulations, etc.) to a new tool based on an environment Python.
This project is part of a demanding regulatory framework, in particular IFRS 9, with significant challenges in terms of robustness, performance and security of the models.
Roles and responsibilities
- Leading the risk model transformation and migration project
- Actively participate in the scoping phase and the definition of the target solution
- Guiding methodological and technical choices in the Python environment
- Optimize the use of data and modeling and valuation libraries
- Structure the work and ensure the overall coherence of the system
- Ensure project monitoring and the quality of deliverables
Required Skills
Functional:
- Proven experience in managing risk projects in a banking environment
- Solid knowledge of regulatory issues, in particular IFRS 9
- Very good understanding of credit and/or market risk models
Techniques:
- Excellent command of development in Python
- Expertise in statistical calculations, projections and simulations (VaR, stress testing, backtesting)
- Experience with projection and valuation models
- Strong interest in optimizing and industrializing calculation processes
Mission Details
- Duration: long-term assignment (12 months)
- Start date: as early as January
- Workload: full-time for 6 months, then part-time at the end of the assignment (to be confirmed with the client)
- Mission location: France
- Status: Independent consultant / Freelance
- Daily rate: depending on profile
If you are ready to take on this challenge within a major project, please send us your detailed CV highlighting your relevant experience in relation to this mission.
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