Financial Risk Modeler Intern

**Our mission**? Making day-to-day banking easier for SMEs and freelancers thanks to an online business account that's combined with invoicing, bookkeeping and spend management tools. Thanks to its innovative product, highly reactive 24/7 customer support and clear pricing, Qonto has become the leader in its market.

**Our journey**: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 500,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking

**Our values**:
**Customer focus |** Prioritize customers in everything you do

**Ownership |**Own your part, get things done

**Teamwork |** Make (team)work easy

**Mastery |**Continuously raise the bar

**Integrity |** Always do what’s right, and respect people

**Our beliefs**: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 50% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.

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The mission of the future risk intern will be to deliver a tool that automatically prices interest rate swaps and assesses the interest rate risk of bonds at any time. This tool should be operational and user-friendly as it will be used by risk analysts to monitor Qonto’s portfolio.

Monitoring the value of Qonto’s investment is key to any efficient risk management of a financial portfolio. The Risk team, the top-level management, and the board of directors have high expectations of the quality of this monitoring. You will be integrated into the Risk function and will directly report to Gauthier.

‍‍ **As a Financial Risk Modeler intern at Qonto, you will**

The Financial Risk Modeller intern is tasked with enhancing and maintaining a pricing tool used for valuing financial investments like stocks and bonds. This involves:

- **Improving**a Python library that supports the pricing tool.
- **Assisting**in the development of dashboards for financial risk reporting.
- **Contributing** to the construction of an interest rate risk model.
- **Engaging** in the pricing of interest rate swap options.

**What you can expect**
- **Working in a scale-up** like Qonto means working in a **continuously changing environment** that is challenging
- Discover **risk management** and **portfolio risk management** in an experimented risk team.
- Improve your **coding and modeling skills.** Your direct managers have strong experience in that field in well-known Banking institutions and consulting companies.

**About your future manager**

**His path**: You will directly report to Gauthier, a seasoned financial risk management professional with over a decade of experience. Gauthier's background spans consulting and Big banks, featuring a pivotal role at Société Générale as a Model Auditor, followed by his current position as a Lead of the Quantitative Risk team at Qonto since January 2023. His expertise ensures a comprehensive understanding of risk challenges and innovative solutions.

**What he brings to the team**:Gauthier offers a deep understanding of quantitative risk analysis, and strategic financial risk management, and fosters innovation. His fintech and banking sector experience ensures a comprehensive approach to challenges, making him instrumental in developing sophisticated risk management strategies at Qonto.

**About You**
- **Education**: You are passing a Master’s degree, with a specialization in Financial Mathematics.
- **Languages**: You are fluent in English, and French would be a plus.
- **Hyper-growth environment**: You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, where deliverables and priorities rapidly evolve.
- **Analytical mind**: You have strong analytical skills and a critical mind, and you are able to present the findings of your work to any type of audience.- _️ Certain of our perks and benefits are only available to employees on permanent contracts_

**Perks**

An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.
- Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;
- 1 or 2 remote days per week (depending on your team and what your school allows);
- 1 paid day off /month;
- A meal voucher;
- Public transportation reimbursement;
- Great offers for sports and wellness activities;
- A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent) and childcare benefits with selected partners;
- Monthly team events.

Click here to read more about what it's like to be an intern at Qonto.

**Our hiring process**:

- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future manager/mentor
- A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like

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