Front office Prime Brokerage Risk Manager – London UK based recruitment

 Front office Prime Brokerage Risk Manager

• Excellent Base Salary + Front Office bonus with market leading benefits package (stock, housing, relocation and other additional benefits)

• London New York

Internationally renowned Prime Brokerage Team is looking to develop its front office risk group across a range of asset classes. The bank is a top tier institution and is looking for a VP - ED level Prime Brokerage Risk manager to join their growing team. The group can boast record profits from its hedge fund business over the past 18 months resulting in a huge amount of resources being placed into its prime brokerage business.

The successful candidate will be working in risk management and work closely with the sales, structuring, quant and trading teams to develop and roll out new products for the bank. The role will hold an extensive amount of client facing / pitching responsibilities therefore need a candidate who is commercially and technically viable to handle a demanding front office environment.

A general overview of the senior risk manager’s responsibilities:

• Manage the firm's market risk in relation to the lending facility it provides to its hedge fund clients. 

• Setting requirement/leverage levels by analysing client portfolios and monitoring these through out to make sure the appropriate levels are always in place.

• Development of new margin methodologies/policies, both with regards to improvement of current ones and including new products.

• Development of internal risk tools, such as various types of stress and scenario analyses.

• Heavily involved in the PB marketing efforts by taking part in client pitches, discussing the firm's risk policy and leverage levels provided, as well as talking about the risk tools provided to clients in the PB offering.

• Various client facing responsibilities, such as dealing with general risk issues, negotiating term agreements and presenting to clients

This role is an excellent opportunity to move into a very successful prime brokerage team with exposure to all areas of the bank. The role is an excellent stepping stone for a risk manager to move from a middle office to front office environment but also into a revenue generating role. Also a number of risk managers in this group have moved into other business areas within the front office due to the exposure to senior management this position provides.

Please send all applications in word doc format to risk@selbyjennings.com