Risk Manager Lead
Financial Markets Risk Manager Lead
A leading global investment management firm is seeking a Financial Markets Risk Manager Lead to join its Risk Management team. This individual will partner with senior leadership and investment teams to identify, analyze, monitor, and mitigate risks across fixed income, structured credit, private credit, and equity portfolios.
The successful candidate will possess deep buy-side risk management experience and will work closely with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Research Analysts, Compliance, Legal, and Technology teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance portfolio-level risk frameworks and risk models
- Analyze portfolios to identify market, liquidity, concentration, volatility, tracking error, beta, and other risk exposures
- Standardize and centralize risk data to improve transparency and reporting
- Utilize Python, SQL, business intelligence tools, and market data platforms to generate risk analytics
- Conduct stress testing and scenario analysis
- Develop and monitor key risk indicators, limits, and VaR frameworks
- Monitor macroeconomic and market developments impacting portfolios
- Assist with valuation methodologies for complex and less liquid investments
- Support new product launches through risk framework development
- Analyze large datasets and communicate key insights to senior stakeholders
- Present risk findings and recommendations to executive leadership
- Partner closely with investment professionals across fixed income and equity strategies
- Lead and mentor junior risk professionals
Qualifications
- 9+ years of buy-side market risk management experience
- Experience within asset management, hedge funds, pension funds, insurance asset management, or similar investment platforms
- Strong structured credit and fixed income expertise
- Experience managing risk across products such as:
- ABS
- CMBS
- CLOs
- Leveraged Loans
- High Yield Bonds
- BDCs
- Preferred Equity
- Public Equities
- Advanced proficiency with:
- Python
- SQL
- Bloomberg
- Excel
- Strong understanding of:
- VaR
- Expected Shortfall (ES)
- Stress Testing
- Beta Analysis
- Correlation Analysis
- Portfolio Risk Analytics
- Experience presenting to senior executives and investment committees
- Prior people management experience preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Mathematics, Risk Management, Analytics, or a related discipline
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