BlackOcean Recruitment

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BlackOcean are true specialists. What defines a specialist? We think it’s the knowledge, aptitude, passion and ability to fully absorb oneself in an activity so that you can provide expert and defined advice or services to a demanding niche marketWe really are a company that focuses on the things we do best.

Below is a small breakdown of the disciplines we cover within our core area of expertise; the financial markets.

Quantitative Analytics

We love all things quant. It's the corner stone of our business and is a discipline that we really excel at recruiting within. Quantitative methods are used across a full spectrum of activities within the financial world....

quantitative development, market, financial, credit and operational risk, trading, stock selection, portfolio management, model validation, pricing and performance and attribution

Econometrics

We really enjoy working with clients who require an Econometrics skill set. It's a technically demanding and interesting field of study. We generally classify Econometrics into two areas:

Theoretical econometrics: questions about the statistical properties of estimators and tests.
Applied econometrics: the application of econometric methods to assess economic theories.

Fraud Analytics

This is an increasingly important and historically under utilised area within the financial world. Modern statistical methods can be employed across banks and other financial institutions to detect data patterns to help combat financial fraud.

A broad range of quantitative and statistical methods can used to build predictive models usually in SAS etc etc

Risk Management

Possibly the most appropriate home for the use of quantitative modelling and skills. Risk management is present in almost every part of the investment and banking process and is becoming ever more prevalent.

We recruit heavily within market risk, credit and operational risk, trade and non-traded risk, balance-sheet, ALM management and portfolio/group level teams.

Business Analytics

This discipline encompasses the utilisation of data within the financial markets with the use of performance attribution, indices data and stock fundamentals forming the basis of our business in this area.

We work with and recruit for back, middle and front office positions and have very strong networks and understanding of this discipline across funds management and data vending

Treasury

BlackOcean is among the few recruitment consultancies that have a real world understanding of treasury management and analytics. We work with banks, insurance companies, consultancies and risk technology vendors in the pursuit of specialised resources for this complex area of expertise.

Again, we hire within back, middle and front office positions.

Research

Research is perhaps the broadest and most sought after (and hotly contested) role within the financial markets. We have a good coverage across the main buy side areas of equity, foreign exchange, commodities, fixed income and derivatives and are expanding our expertise into sell side activities.

Our strength lies in our ability to source quantitatively driven research professionals who have both the intellect and ability to produce original and highly theoretical research. Trading and alpha generating quantitative methods are the newest additions to the BlackOcean capabilities.