Top Global Investment Bank seeks Head of Credit Risk Analytics within the fund industry recruitment
You will be communicating all fund’ credit analytics to customers/stakeholders across every area of the firm and will be a source of expertise on funds’ credit analytics or collateralised credit risk to the business and the risk community as required and to review contentious or high-risk portfolios.
If you have Broad trading risk management experience covering, ideally, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and traded credit and ideally credit risk management experience covering position-taking by hedge funds and financial institutions in a prime brokerage environment or a collateralised trading environment and are looking to be a key figurehead in the funds space apply now
The Role
- To design and any analytical tools required for credit risk management in the funds industry: independent amounts for otc transactions, risk measures for collateralised trading, metrics to assess lending to hedge funds or funds of hedge funds, design/testing portfolio risk models, and position reporting.
- To communicate funds’ credit analytics to customers/stakeholders across the firm, including Prime Services, trading, sales, relationship management staff and credit approvers across every group across the firm and to obtain the support of these units as necessary.
- To be a source of expertise on funds’ credit analytics or collateralised credit risk to the business and the risk community as required and to review contentious or high-risk portfolios.
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Knowledge Experience / Qualifications
- Academic qualifications that demonstrate numerical skills, for example a degree in engineering.
- Broad trading risk management experience covering, ideally, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and traded credit.
- Ideally, some credit risk management experience covering position-taking by hedge funds and financial institutions in a prime brokerage environment or a collateralised trading environment. Traditional credit analysis, particularly in the hedge funds space, may be useful but is not essential.
- The ability to design appropriate and cost-effective risk measures, risk processes and risk monitoring for a wide variety of different trading portfolios.
- Credit knowledge and judgmental credit risk skills drawn from fund management and financial institutional clients.
- Ability to assess market risk trends both internally and externally and to react rapidly to changing conditions, independently of line management.
- Independent problem-solving and analytical skills, willingness to take responsibility for solving problems.
- Ability to work as part of a team with key customers and stakeholders.
- Fluency in written and in spoken English with correct grammar, spelling and pronunciation.
- Ability to program in VBA and SQL.
If you are looking to be a key player in this major firm, and to be a major liaison with all areas involved in fund management with a annual salary of up to £125k apply now