Financial Markets Risk Manager Lead, Capital Partners

Brown Brothers Harriman•New York, NY

1d•$150,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships. We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career. Join us as a Financial Markets Risk Manager Lead, Capital Partners Brown Brothers Harriman (“BBH”) is currently seeking a Financial Markets Risk Manager Lead, for BBH’s Capital Partners business to join our Enterprise Risk Management team and engage with senior management on risk. The ideal candidate will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, monitoring and mitigating risks associated with client fixed income and equity portfolios. This role requires a strong understanding of private credit, structured credit, interest rate products, fixed income, and equity portfolios, and buy-side financial risk management experience. This person will collaborate closely with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Research Analysts, Relationship Managers, Compliance, the Office of the General Counsel, and Enterprise Risk Management.

Requirements

9+ of relevant financial risk or control experience at a buy-side institution (e.g., asset manager, hedge fund, pension, insurance asset management platform), including in structured credit
Bachelor’s degree required in finance, math, risk management or business analytics
Experience managing portfolio level risk across a wide array of financial products required (e.g., ABS, CMBS, CLO, BDC, multi-family debt, leverage loans, high yield bonds, preferred equities and equities)
Proficiency in Python, SQL, Bloomberg, and Excel required
Strong knowledge of and prior work experience in market risk analytics (VaR, ES, stress tests, hit rate, skew, beta, correlations, etc.)
Experience with presenting to senior management teams
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Nice To Haves

Experience as a people manager overseeing junior team members preferred

Responsibilities

Developing and implementing portfolio-level risk frameworks and models
Analyzing portfolios and their holdings to identify potential market and liquidity risks at the single name and portfolio level e.g. concentration, volatility, tracking error, betas, etc.
Understanding data, including being able to standardize data across Capital Partners for consistency, centralization and transparent risk analysis
Utilizing Python, Business Intelligence tool(s), Intex and SQL to create and analyze risk analytics
Conducting stress testing analysis
Creating and maintaining key risk indicators and risk thresholds e.g., VaR analysis
Monitoring macro market trends
Assisting in modeling difficult-to-value securities e.g., fair value assets
Participating in new product initiatives and setting up analytical risk management oversight
Working with large datasets to develop complex risk analysis, and identifying essential insights and key takeaways for senior management
Assessing complex problems, identifying patterns, and developing data driven solutions
Engaging, communicating, and collaborating effectively with portfolio managers, traders, institutional client group and technology partners across Equity and Fixed income teams
Developing and presenting risk metrics to Senior Management with recommendations and outcomes
Management of junior team members