Lead Investment Consultant
My client is a public regulator of work based pension schemes in the UK. They are looking for someone to lead their defined benefit regulation investment team, working collaboratively as part of the management team. The successful applicant will inform the evolution of defined benefit regulation policy, develop investment risk and the operalisation of investment work.
The Role
• Inform the evolution of policy and the integrated risk management framework and put in place the investment regulation strategy
• provide investment expertise to high risk cases as part of virtual case teams as well as the sharing investment knowledge across the wider team
• analyse and assess trends and systemic risks across the whole pensions landscape as well as help form house views on economic conditions, asset classes and key investment risk related parameters in funding risk analysis framework
• be the main point of contact for workload issues and questions about matters for escalation and decision-making
• performance management for all investment team members dealing with high and poor performance; development and training and maintaining a skills matrix
• working alongside operational support, managers and executive director with regard to work and project allocations
The Candidate
• Significant, in-depth relevant work experience wholly in investment management, including senior roles in asset allocation and/or risk management working with a range of asset classes, risks and returns at a high level
• Experience of actively working within an asset-liability framework and knowledge of DB liabilities and how they interact with one another.
• Ability to critically assess and analyse emerging trends, including new asset classes and risks
• Knowledge of economic environment and investment market and how this relates to DB challenges in addition to the ability to recognise the weaknesses of the current investment management market and the systemic risks this creates
• Knowledge of asset allocation; quantitative and qualitative risk assessment; hedging strategies and derivatives; different risk factors, including but not limited to interest rate risk, inflation risk, credit risk, market risk, counterparty risk and liquidity risk.
• Knowledge of modelling techniques related to investment risk, e.g. VaR, Monte Carlo, tail risk, scenario testing etc.
If you are interested in this position and genuinely meet the criteria please get in touch.
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