Senior Equity Investment Risk Analyst

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Undertake detailed forward looking risk analysis on equity portfolios and communicate findings and recommendations to portfolio managers, team members and senior management.
• Lead regular investment risk reviews with portfolio managers, identifying, explaining and challenging the drivers of investment risk, including liquidity and ESG related risks.
• Assist in monitoring portfolios against internal investment risk guidelines, highlighting exceptions and contributing to discussions around risk management actions.
• Collaborate with colleagues in the maintenance and enhancement of risk management tools, techniques and processes.
• Support the wider business with quantitative insights, working closely with the product and client teams to support product and client initiatives.

Requirements

• A proactive self starter with a strong academic record in a quantitative field.
• Experience in a relevant role; ideally within an investment risk management function and with exposure to equity portfolios.
• Strong working knowledge of investment risk concepts, equity markets, instruments and risk management techniques.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships with the confidence to communicate complex risk related issues effectively to all levels in the business.
• Hands on experience using risk management models and software (e.g. Aladdin, equity factor models, Python).
• Working knowledge of SQL and Python.
• Completed or working towards professional qualifications such as CFA or FRM.