Risk & Quantitative Engineering Vice President

Marcus; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - GBP 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London is seeking a Vice President in Market Risk. This role requires strong quantitative skills, with responsibilities including the development of quantitative models and managing a team of analysts. Candidates need a PhD or equivalent experience in a quantitative discipline along with expertise in programming languages such as Java, C++, or Python. The firm offers competitive benefits and promotes a culture of inclusion and professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive vacation policies

Financial wellness programs

On-site fitness centers

Medical advocacy services

Child care services

Qualifications

• PhD degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years relevant experience for PhD or 8+ years for Bachelor's/Master's.
• Experience with statistics, time series analysis, and econometric modeling.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain market risk models for Equities.
• Implement, test, and productionize analytics.
• Interact with stakeholders to explain model results.
• Lead a team of quantitative analysts.

Skills

Strong quantitative skills

Excellent command of mathematics

Strong programming skills

Hands-on experience with pricing models

Team management experience

Education

PhD in a quantitative discipline

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative discipline

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Job description

Risk - Quantitative Engineering - Vice President - London

Job Description

MARKET RISK STRATS, RISK, VICE PRESIDENT

We are currently seeking experienced candidates for the position of Vice President in Market Risk Strats team within the Risk Division to lead Equities Market risk Strats

The Market Risk Strats team is a multidisciplinary group of quantitative experts focusing on market risk and capital models. The team is primarily responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining quantitative models for metrics such as Value-at-Risk, Stress Tests and Capital.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities can include:

• Developing, refining and maintaining robust and production quality market risk models (such as value-at-risk, stress tests) and capital models covering Equities businesses. This involves identifying market risk factors for various equity products (derivatives) and building mathematical models to capture their economic and statistical characteristics.
• Implementing, testing and productionizing models and analytics. This involves prototyping models, implementing them and designing tests to ensure the quality of implementation as well as tests for the continuous functioning of the models.
• Performing pricing analyses, risk and capital impact analyses.
• Interact with various other groups such as risk managers, senior managers and stakeholders to explain the results of the models and analytics and provide quantitative advice.
• Leading a team of quantitative analysts, managing their day‑to‑day activities.

Basic Qualifications

• Strong quantitative skills with a PhD degree in a quantitative discipline (Physics, Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) along with 5 years of relevant work experience or a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline with 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Excellent command of mathematics, modeling and numerical techniques. Good knowledge of statistics, time series analysis, econometric modeling and probability theory.
• Strong programming skills and experience with a popular programming language (Java, C++, Python etc.).
• Hands‑on experience of developing pricing models/risk models for equities (derivatives)
• Experience in managing a team of quantitative analysts.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Job Info

• Job Identification 157332
• Job Category Vice President
• Posting Date 01/26/2026, 02:26 PM
• Locations London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Healthcare & Medical Services

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state‑of‑the‑art on‑site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).

We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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