Senior Portfolio Risk Manager – Asian Buy Side, Singapore recruitment
Our client is a renowned Asian investment management house. With the growth in fund size and investing in an ever changing environment, they are seeking an experienced Portfolio Risk Manager with a forward thinking mentality to advise senior management on potential risk return issues.
Primary Work Scope:
- Portfolio stress testing and linking macro economic and thematic indicators or forecasts to impact on portfolio performance.
- Develop country, sector or thematic drill downs that ensure nuances in macro insights get translated to each theme, country and sector and reflected in the bottom up screening and asset selection of specialised investment teams.
- Develop and maintain risk dashboards and framework of early warning indicators, and support their drill down and application.
- Able to link thematic or macro insights to insights for major portfolio companies (as part of our engagement with boards as an active shareholder, and in decisions on divestment and investment).
- Liaise with front office partners in our country and sector teams, and with central strategy, portfolio management and financial planning functions.
- Partner to senior management in relating portfolio level insights to business impact.
- Quantitative analysis in support of the above, and generation of reports for senior management.
- Enhancement of standard portfolio reports for risk and performance reporting and benchmarking, and oversight of implementation of enhancements.
We are seeking candidates who possess the following:
- At least 6-10 years of relevant experience in strategy, risk management, portfolio management or macro planning functions in banks, institutional investors or related strategy consulting or risk consulting within reputed management consulting firms.
- Able to design qualitative and quantitative analysis related to stress testing, macro economic planning, portfolio risk and return reporting and other top down portfolio reporting.
- Practical experience in advising front office teams to ensure impact and / or implementation of recommendations. Experience in Asia is preferred
- Experience in the asset management industry covering private and public equity markets / portfolio optimisation and asset allocation will be highly preferred
- Perform modelling for short, medium and long term returns, and risks analysis on both an ex-post or ex-ante basis for a whole portfolio, individual asset classes, or specific investments.
Education qualifications:
Advanced degree in finance, economics, business administration or quantitative discipline.
Singapore Employment Agency Licence No: 07C2942
January 15, 2012
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