Hybrid Senior Financial Risk Consultant

at Zanders

• Job title: Senior Financial Risk Consultant
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Tech skills: Python, Spark
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Utrecht, Netherlands

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!