Junior Risk Manager

Junior Risk Manager

£100,000 GBP

+Sign-On + EOY Bonus

Onsite WORKING

Location: Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent

Our client is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative

strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for their clients.

They have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute their success to rigorous scientific research. As a

technology and data-driven firm, they design and build their own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading

platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, they emphasize true, global

collaboration by aligning their investment, technology, and operations teams functionally around the world.

Position Overview:

Identify and evaluate risk associated with discretionary trading strategies

Collaborate with Quantitative Researcher and Traders on the strategies analysis

Ensure the strategies are run within the risk allocation defined by the Investment Committee

Analyze risk at the portfolio level and performance drivers

Help with trade portfolio construction across the discretionary business

Drive the build out of risk framework by improving the firm's processes and infrastructure for management of the discretionary business

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or related field (includes degrees in Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, Computer Science and Physics); advanced degree preferred.

Years Experience: (guidelines)

From graduate level up to 3 years of commercial experience

Required Skillset:

Demonstrated interest in Risk Management

Demonstrated interest in a quantitative approach

Capacity to collaborate with the trading, analysts and quants team

Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate with teammates globally

Strong sense of urgency with the ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.

Reference: AMC/AHU/NW/JRM001

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