Investment Risk Consultant

• The Investment Risk Management Team is responsible for risk oversight, developing the risk management framework for fixed-income sectors, derivatives, and strategies, and ensuring that they fall within the risk appetite defined by the organization #ASSOCIATE

What are the ongoing responsibilities of an Investment Risk Consultant

The Investment Risk Consultants primary function is to monitor, assess, and communicate investment risks to the investment teams and to help communicate same to executive leadership. The position will be challenging, exciting, and rewarding as the candidate will have contact with investment teams who manage billions of dollars and gain experience with many fixed-income sectors (e.g., high yield, investment grade, MBS, Government, Floating Rate, Munis, Securitized), derivatives, and strategies.

• Monitor, assess, and communicate investment risks to the investment teams and executive leadership.
• Understand, monitor, and anticipate the risks of complex new and existing portfolios and products.
• Utilize investment and risk concepts and knowledge to organize qualitative and quantitative information to identify risk insights and trends.
• Communicate and debate risk information with key constituents, including investment professionals, executive management, fund boards, key committees, and external clients.
• Develop and implement plans to execute ad hoc projects and solve complex problems involving new ways to analyze risks.
• Provide guidance to risk analysts as needed

What ideal qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful

• Bachelors degree minimum, preferably in math, statistics, computer science, data science, financial engineering, or other quantitative discipline with courses in finance and economics.
• Masters in quantitative discipline preferred with preference given to quantitative finance focused.
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience in investment risk.
• Strong quantitative and technical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with large databases and enterprise-size information systems.
• Progress toward or completion of FRM or CFA preferred.
• Experience with proprietary and/or vendor risk models (BBG Port/Aladdin) preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, think out-of-the-box, and provide analysis and recommendations with credibility and confidence.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with a focus on and complete priority tasks.

What technology skill sets are critical to the success of this role

• 3+ years of Power BI and SQL experience preferred.
• Tableau, Python, VBA, MATLAB, and other programming skills strongly preferred