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Job Title: Quant Analyst programme
Salary : Competitive package
Location : London
Hours : Full-Time

About this opportunity

Do you have strong quantitative skills and want to work on exciting projects that will help shape the future of banking? Do you want to build a career within a challenging and dynamic environment? As part of our strategic drive to be at the forefront of a rapidly evolving marketplace in financial services, the programme offers an exciting opportunity for talented quantitative post-graduates (PhD or equivalent) to join Lloyds Banking Group.

There are a few opportunities to join a quantitatively focussed specialist team in business units across Lloyds Banking Group including Markets and Risk. You’ll build on your mathematical and technological skills as well as financial knowledge to build models that are critical to the success of our business.

You’ll benefit from a training programme that will balance academic learning with the development of business and technical skills. Your skills will be matched against the most appropriate needs, and you'll be placed within one of our quantitative teams within Commercial Banking.

Specialist Training includes:

• Quant Academy: Internal lecture series on financial modelling
• C++ & Python Programming: Self-learning & on-site
• Quant hub: self-learning lectures by industry practitioners
• ARPM: Moderated self-learning platform on machine learning and risk management methods in the real measure
• Research paper and final presentation.

You'll also gain valuable exposure through on-the-job secondments within other quantitative teams. In short, the programme will help you to build solid foundations and expose you to vast opportunities to learn, grow and build a rewarding career.

About Us

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

To apply to this programme, you'll need either of:

BSc or higher qualification in a quantitative subject plus good knowledge in financial modelling and minimum two years of relevant industry experience

or

PhD in a quantitative subject

So, what do we want to see in your style?

• Firstly, you're enthusiastic about financial modelling, you love coding and doing things well.
• You’ll have a gift for having attention to detail, being accurate and precise in your work, which you would apply in all phases of the model development lifecycle, from design, coding, testing, documentation, and model monitoring.
• You enjoy working in collaboration with others and under tight deadlines, which gives you a sense of challenge, and an opportunity to test your boundaries.
• And you’ll have strong analytical capabilities, you’ll enjoy writing technical documentation and explaining complex problems in a simple manner.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.