Hays are recruiting for a Climate Economist/ Stress testing analyst to join a Bank in London on a contract basis.
Reporting into the Enterprise Risk lead you will have the following duties;
* Providing thought leadership in designing, developing, and executing statistical and econometric methods for projecting macro-financial as well as climate-specific variables and shocks (energy transition pathways, extreme weather events, sea level rise etc).
* Analysing climate scenarios and suggesting different potential forward looking paths using either judgement or models.
* Following and analysing climate developments in key developed and emerging market economies, assessing vulnerabilities, and making economic forecasts.
* Interpreting production output results and ensuring forecasts results are consistent with scenario assumptions, model assumptions and statistical and econometric foundation assumptions.
* Conducting necessary forecast oversight to ensure historical data and forecast consistency.

Skills required:
* Master’s degree in Economics, Econometrics, mathematics, statistics equivalent.
* 5+ years economist experience in a major financial, public, or international institution.
* Expertise in at least one of these fields (a combination of two or all three): macro-economic analysis, energy systems or climate economics.
* Expertise in macro-economic scenario review and narratives and determine optimal set of macro/finance risk drivers, the respective forecast and forecast density.
* Experiences in Python, R, SAS or MATLAB programming environment.
* Previous experience in a role requiring managing/analysing large data sets and presenting the data visually to senior management is highly desired.



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