AVP, IM Risk Analytics & Reporting

Voya Financial • Atlanta, GA

3d

About The Position

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future. We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today. Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision. Are you ready to join a company with a strong purpose and a winning culture? Start your Voyage – Job Summary You will be a key contributor to the team responsible for risk management of both the proprietary and external client investment portfolios. You will also lead and participate in analyzing, researching, advancing and providing practical advice on risk management issues that are critical to the organization. You will work under the direction of more senior staff to develop, implement and communicate risk-related policies and procedures and be responsible for monitoring and reporting risk exposures on a day-to-day basis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, finance, quantitative analysis, or accounting
• Minimum 2 years of risk management/financial operations or related fixed income, equity investment management experience. Relevant experience includes: research, analysis, analytics, data quality, and reporting experience.
• Capable of independently completing some risk management projects and analyses.
• Experience in escalating issues through internal levels of risk management.
• Demonstrated ability in dealing with challenging situations, navigating disagreement, and negotiation at different levels in risk management.
• Programming and database skills, including proficiency in Excel VBA programming, SQL and Python etc.
• Experience in Business Intelligence/Reporting tools (eg. WebFocus, SSRS, Power BI etc.)

Nice To Haves

• MBA or Masters in Quantitative Finance Discipline preferred.
• FRM/PRM designation, CFA designation, or progress towards these designations desirable.
• Knowledge of risk and control systems used in a risk management environment for assessment and mitigation is desirable.
• Experience with Blackrock Aladdin System, Bloomberg or other equity platforms is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to continued improvement of risk management policies and processes.
• Lead valuable risk projects including research/development and implementation of risk analytics data and technology solutions.
• Collaborate with fellow risk team members to find opportunities to make major improvements to internal risk systems and data science implementation for portfolio risk and actively participate in system design and interaction with IT teams to build a risk analytics and reporting platform.
• Bring in data science analysis framework to risk analytics to support various investment and portfolio management teams for pattern recognition, trade idea generation and negative risk identification, early warning etc.
• Partner with other business units to provide hedging strategy testing, regulatory reporting and institutionalizing and centralizing the processes and procedures.
• Develop, implement, and monitor various mandate limits via dashboard reporting tools and reports and model validation support for investment risk teams
• Maintain and establish risk analytics & reporting framework and document libraries for policies and procedures along with various risk report schedules to communicate to stakeholders.
• Take ownership of risk analytics data which is used for all the risk analysis and reporting needs working closely with Investment and Operational Risk Management teams.
• Responsible for understanding and following firm policies and procedures while performing the role outlined above.
• Ability to identify and implement automation solutions for risk processes working with IT and Infrastructure teams.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees