This role can be based in any of our listed offices, with regular travel to our London office.
A bit about the role...
We are looking for a talented and motivated Quantitative Analyst to join our innovative and technical financial risk modelling team. Working closely with our Hiring Manager, Richard Alderson (Assistant Director – Modelling and Stress Testing) and a team of expert analysts, you will play a key role in delivering the advanced models and analysis that underpin Homes England’s understanding and management of financial risk.
You’ll be part of a small, specialist group within the Quantitative Risk and Stress Testing team, responsible for developing and maintaining a suite of advanced quantitative models. These models are essential for understanding and managing the financial risk associated with our portfolio. Your work will support a wide range of activities including credit risk modelling, IFRS 9, scenario analysis and forecasting, and stress testing.
This is a rare opportunity to help shape how financial risk is modelled and reported within a national organisation with real social purpose. You will work with senior stakeholders and colleagues across the Agency, contributing technical insight and analysis that supports decision making and long-term financial planning.
You’ll also contribute to key strategic initiatives, delivering innovative, fit-for-purpose models while balancing the practical needs of the organisation. Whether it's enhancing our existing approaches to financial risk modelling or pioneering new risk quantification methods, you’ll be part of a team pushing forward how risk is quantified.
A bit about you…
You'll have a demonstrable track record in quantitative modelling and financial risk analysis within a financial organisation, consultancy, or similar environment. This will be paired with excellent numerical and analytical ability and advanced programming skills.
You’ll be confident working independently on complex modelling challenges, and experienced in collaborating with colleagues across a business to turn analytical results into impactful insights. Your communication skills will enable you to explain technical ideas to non-specialists, helping stakeholders make informed, evidence-based decisions.
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual with the following qualifications and experience:
- Outstanding numerical and analytical ability, supported by a masters degree in a highly quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, or Physics, or equivalent significant professional experience.
- Proven track record in a similar role, specialising in quantitative financial risk modelling, quantitative analysis, and quantitative model development.
- Advanced programming skills in Python, SQL, and VBA, demonstrating a high level of technical proficiency and proven experience of delivering production-grade solutions.
- Expertise in Microsoft Excel, including advanced functions for sophisticated data manipulation and analysis.
- Hands-on experience in model development using tools such as VS Code, Databricks, SQL, Azure DevOps (ADO), and Git.
- Extensive experience of portfolio analysis and automated reporting (e.g. using Power BI).
- Deep understanding of the end-to-end modelling lifecycle, with a strong track record in the design, development, documentation, testing, and validation of quantitative models.
- Strong organisational and project management capabilities with excellent attention to detail and ability to prioritise and work under pressure and provide challenge and guidance.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with a collaborative approach to team working and stakeholder engagement.
- Exceptional communication skills - adept at translating technical concepts for non-subject matter experts, ensuring comprehensive understanding across all organisational levels via various formats (e.g. presentations, reports etc).
- Evidence of commitment to continuous improvement, consistently seeking ways to enhance processes and outcomes.
- Ability to work independently and with autonomy and demonstrate commercial awareness.
- Desirable: Knowledge of the real estate sector, particularly the housing market in England.
- Desirable: Previous experience working within or alongside government organisations.
Who are we?
Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency
We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.
How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.
Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.
What we offer...
As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.
Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.
Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.
If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names
Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.
Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.
We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.
