Group Investment Valuation Manager
Our client, a leading Asset Management Company, is looking to recruit a Group Investment Valuation Manager into their new Investment Valuations team. The successful candidate will support the development of this new team which will drive setting the appropriate asset valuation governance, oversight and reporting for the Group.
Key Responsibilities:
• Own governance of Group’s Asset Valuation Business standard
• Act as central source for valuation risk expertise
• Ensure that valuation methodologies are compliant with regulatory requirements
• Valuations Subject Matter Experts and perform detailed asset valuation methodology and validation for complex assets
• Working across departments to define how valuation risk is calculated and reported
• Enhance group level understanding of the asset portfolio, valuation methodologies and risks
• Valuation risk reporting including developing and delivering relevant MI
• Group governance
• Technical pricing challenge (modelling and input validation) including acting as asset valuations SME for local markets, liaising with the asset class specific mark review teams to understand the methodologies being applied to calculate a Fair Valuation.
• Ownership of the process the identifying gaps between current practice and the final Fair Valuation regulations
• Stakeholder management
Key Features:
• Opportunity to gain expose to complex valuation issues across a range of asset classes
• Reports to Head of Investment Reporting
Essential skills:
• Experience of delivering on longer term initiatives beyond a monthly or daily production cycle
• Strong understanding of the valuation of financial instruments including exotic derivatives
• A numerate degree including a sound understanding of statistical concepts
• Ability to review and challenge financial asset valuations and MI across a range of asset types is key
• Ability to validate valuation models, inputs and assumptions is key
• Experience in using Bloomberg for analysis/pricing is preferred (not essential)
• Experience in sourcing market information to use in OTC valuation models as inputs is preferred
Given this is a new function the successful candidate has the opportunity to shape how the processes and structure will work and will have exposure to senior stakeholders across the group.
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