Senior Risk Manager – Risk Reporting recruitment
Senior Risk Manager - Risk Reporting
£80,000 - £100,000 + bonus + benefits
City
The Company
Highly successful global investment management group encompassing all types of investment funds, products as well as alternatives. They are one of the largest global asset managers with AUM in excess of £100 billion. They are generally considered one of the better employers to work for with a vision for success and innovation.
The Role
This is a new high profile role working in a dynamic and experienced team and reports directly to the Head of Risk. This person would also bring additional experience into the current global risk department and allow for future succession planning. You will be expected to contribute ideas and creative solutions, and be involved in decision making. There is potential to expand this role, and to add to the team. This role will bring standardisation to how they report risk and present data and analysis. The role is also about finding a cohesive solution to join investment and credit outputs. Specifically the role includes:
- Design and production on a regular basis summary risk information for the group management board
- Refinement of current risk reports and aggregation of risk output across investment and credit risk teams.
- Extensive involvement in implementation of new firm wide risk system (likely to be RiskMetrics Risk Manager), including recommendations of risk methodologies and techniques
- Representing the market risk department across a number of functional committees as well as deputising for global head
- Coordination and communication of projects across the global team
Who they are looking for
In order to be considered for this role, you must meet the following criteria:-
- Extensive experience of buy and sell side strategies
- Exposure to both investment and credit risk
- Knowledge of asset management industry
- Understanding of UCITS IV requirements
- Experience of producing concise board level reports
- Good knowledge of Excel VBA, SQL, and market data systems
- Knowledge of risk measurement methodologies
- Experience of risk reporting gained within either a hedge fund, investment bank or investment manager
- Solid understanding of the wide number of reports involved in presentation of data and analysis
- Able to design risk reports that are meaningful and understandable to a wide audience within the business
- Strong systems appreciation in order to understand the data needs required by a large investment manager
