How you describe yourself
What we Offer you
What you will do?
As a working student you develop the best risk models for leading financial institutions in the Netherlands. With us you have a lot of contact with customers of these financial institutions. In a short time you not only get to know many different financial models, you also develop them. These models help financial institutions to gain insight into their risk profile and into their customers.
You will be directly responsible and you will work together with your RiskQuest colleagues on projects at banks, insurers and pension funds. In addition to good compensation, we offer flexible working hours and a lot of substantive challenge.
Our Company
RiskQuest is a consulting firm specializing in developing state-of-the art models and solutions for managing financial risks, preventing money laundering and terrorist financing, and making data-driven decisions to realize a sustainable strategy.
Since we were founded in 2008, we have been able to build and maintain an impressive customer base and work for all major Dutch financial institutions, including the Dutch central bank. We focus on our three pillars; Fighting Economic Crime, Financial Risk Management, and Energy & Climate Risk.
The growing team consists of 60 exceptional quants with backgrounds in mathematics, physics, and econometrics, combined with a strong commercial sense and the ability to explain complex matters to management, development, and academic audiences.
Our beautiful office is located at the Herengracht in Amsterdam. The working culture is open and informal, we value entrepreneurship, and always thrive for the highest quality. There is an intense social life with daily ping-pong matches, after-work drinks, and regular trips.
Your day at RiskQuest
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Start of the day - data analyzing
09:00 - 12:00As a working student, you work together with other consultants and working students on an intern or extern project. The first task assigned to you is to analyze the data provided using Python or R Studio. In the meantime, you discuss the most important findings with your team members.
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Lunch
12:00 - 13:00Lunchtime. Together with all the other colleagues, you have lunch down stairs or outside our office. Because we are located in the center of Amsterdam, there are numerous options to choose from.
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Team meeting
13:00 - 14:00In the afternoon, you have a technical meeting with your team members about the current results. Are the results consistent and are you satisfied with the results? After having a critical look at your findings, you discuss potential improvements.
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Development of the model
14:00 - 16:00You use the rest of the afternoon to develop the requested model in close collaboration with your colleagues, including coding and thinking of innovative solutions for the problem.
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Stakeholder communication
16:00 - 17:00After you have listed the most important questions and remarks, you have a meeting with the client to discuss the data attributes and results. The manager of the team leads the meeting and the other team members ask questions that are relevant for the data and model.
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Game of Ping Pong
17:00 - 17:30After a nice working day, you end the day with a game of ping pong in our backyard. Afterwards, it is time to go home!
Our application procedure
FAQ
RiskQuest strives to provide feedback within 2 working days
The RiskQuest Recruitment team (Recruiter, Consultant and Partner) will review your resume, grade lists and cover letter.
Our company's main language is English.
We support learning and development for all RiskQuesters. Together with your coach you will map out your learning needs.
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