Team Leader – Risk Analyst recruitment
Team Leader - Risk Analyst - London
A leading financial house is seeking a team leader for their risk and performance team. This team are responsible for providing timely and accurate reports on market and credit risk, and performance metrics to their external clients. The key reports covered are: VAR, ex ante risk, stress tests, scenario modelling and factor based attribution.
Responsibilities and duties
• As the team leader you will be responsible for leading a small team of candidates; allocating workloads and tasks to ensure timely completion of clients’ reports.
• Assume responsibility for the production and delivery of Performance and Risk Analytics. Ensure delivery is in an accurate and timely manner. Active engagement in production monitoring, allocation of tasks to analysts and quality assurance processes.
• Provide effective management of client relationships, with the express aim of ensuring an ongoing high level of client service. Disseminate investment analytics to consult clients on appropriateness and create workable solutions to customer requests.
• Understand the nuances of risk systems to ensure any exposure of risk is covered.
• Be primarily responsible for implementation of new clients, from collating initial requirements, data requirements and discussing reporting options to system set up, development of efficient report production processes, implementation of audit controls and finally report delivery, initial analysis and interpretation to clients.
• Liaise with clients in meetings/presentations on issues regarding risk and advanced analytics. Participate in system demos and presentations to new potential clients.
• Liaison with data providers, colleagues and clients on issues and initiatives relating to the quality and timeliness of data and the content of the reports
• Execution and verification of quality control checks on reports prepared by Risk Analysts
• Ensuring MIS, client summaries and procedures are kept up to date, reviewed frequently and enhanced periodically.
• Provide programme management efficiencies where possible
Experience and skills required
• Ideally comes from an asset management or prime brokerage background
• Excellent knowledge of capital markets and portfolio management
• Strong experience of quantitative/risk analysis - including ex-ante risk, stress testing, scenario analysis, and multi factor attribution.
• Graduate ideally with a Masters Degree, CFA, etc...
• Experience of managing or supervising a small team
• Ideally has exposure of the following systems: Wilshire, Investor Analytics, Riskmetrics, Barra
• Ability to work as part of a team, and to communicate with all levels of management.