Job details
Location: London
Date Posted: 10 September 2022
Category: Investment
Job Type: Permanent
Job ID: Competitive
Description
Our client, a global Asset Management firm, is looking to hire an investment risk professional to join their growing fixed income investment team in London.
The candidates' responsibilities will be:
- Manage risk for a team of portfolio managers, monitoring fund and mandate exposures on a daily basis, analysing risk over time.
- Monitor daily performance and produce ad hoc performance attributions for funds and mandates, performing daily follow-up of all strategies in place and assess differences in exposure with portfolio managers.
- Contribute to modelling market risk in the risk management tool to enable the daily production of tracking-error and value at risk figures, implementing the stress-testing and back-testing frameworks.
- Write various reports intended for senior management.
The ideal candidate will have the following profile:
- Minimum 7-10 years' investment/market risk experience on the buy-side
- Degree educated in a Science, Finance and/or Mathematical subject
- CFA or FRM qualification
- Ability to code in Python or R
- Very good understanding of fixed income instruments and their specific risk factors.
- Strong organisational and interpersonal skills, capable of working within a team and interacting with clients; good presentation skills are essential.
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