Investment Risk Manager

Key Responsibilities:

- Conduct portfolio risk monitoring, analysis, and reporting across risk types (market risk, liquidity risk, and counterparty risk) and asset classes (e.g. equity, fixed income, and commodities).

- Support and execute data quality management and escalation processes of different risk metrics.

- Develop and prepare reports, dashboards and memos on investment risk for management and other oversight bodies.

- Review of new / existing product risk profiles and portfolio positions to identify potential sources of investment risk.

- Support the development of systems and tools to automate and operationalize risk limitation, measurement, monitoring and escalation processes.

- Contribute to global and local projects in the Liquid Investment Risk Management Team.

Your skills and experience:

- University degree in Finance or quantitative field, Chartered Financial Analyst or Financial Risk Manager designations a plus.

- At least 4 years of proven experience in the financial services industry, with experience in different risk functions (market, counterparty, credit, liquidity) preferably within a buy-side firm.

- Proven experience analysing VaR metrics.

- Proven experience with analytical models for financial instruments.

- Previous experience with BlackRock Solutions Aladdin preferred.

- Strong knowledge of risk management across a diverse set of instrument types, business mandates, and risk disciplines (market risk, liquidity risk, counterparty risk).

- Excellent verbal and written communications skills, with ability to communicate issues to management proactively and effectively.

- Proactive mind-set to implement process improvements and new solutions.

- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.

- Strong working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, and Python.