Partner/Executive Level, Head of Portfolio Risk and Portfolio Construction -New York City, USA recruitment

JOB DESCRIPTION- Background

My client, a globally leading, proprietary, technology focused trading firm, is offering a-once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a highly experienced risk management professional to lead the risk effort of a new systematic/quant hedge fund product they are planning to set up.  This job will be primarily risk management but the job description is more “portfolio manager of portfolio managers”. The product will launch with five proven trading teams that will require managing accordingly. This lead position will require the ideal candidate to create the vision, parameters and the factor models for portfolio construction methodology. For more experienced candidates, the compensation package will include an equity share in the business.

Key Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will intimately understand the underlying logic and model mix for all strategies to enable the exercise of discretion over capital and risk budgets. They will also sit on investment committee, Chair the Risk Committee, develop reports and analytics (including infrastructure where necessary) for style and cycle analysis, cross-sectional portfolio analysis, and summaries of these for LP reporting. 

Requirements:

• At least 5 years experience setting portfolio manager allocations, risk limits, and style mix for quant equities and systematic macro for a tier 1 hedge fund.

• A quant related MS, MA

• A PhD would be preferable but not essential

• Some experience as a trader or in a prop trading firm would be useful but not necessary. 

Urgency

• Product will launch in early ’13, this hire needs to be completed by August or September at the latest. 

Key Words: Risk Management, Hedge Fund Risk Management, Proprietary Trading Risk Managament, Front-Office Risk Management, Asset Management Risk Management,  Portfolio Risk Management, Quant Risk Management, Portfolio Construction, Risk Project Management

Although preferable, we do not require a CV, please feel free to get in touch regarding this role to talk to a member of the team to discuss this role. For more current openings with our clients, please see www.g-q-r.com/vacancies

We Welcome speculative and tentative applications roles and others of a similar nature that we may have available on our books.

Applying: Quant-Jobs@globalquantrecruitment.com

Ref: BW9493

Contact Telephone Number: +44 (0) 203 207 9493
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Website: www.G-Q-R.com