Investment Risk Manager - Equities
About The Position
The Equity Risk function plays a critical role in providing independent oversight of the firm’s equity business by delivering rigorous portfolio analytics and actionable risk insights. The team ensures that portfolio risks align with investment objectives, client expectations, and industry standards, with a strong focus on liquidity, market, and concentration risks. Working closely with portfolio managers and senior stakeholders, the group combines deep technical expertise with sound judgment to identify key drivers of risk, distinguish long-term structural exposures from short-term market movements, and continuously enhance the firm’s risk framework and analytical capabilities, including the implementation of advanced risk systems such as Aladdin.
Requirements
- 10+ years of direct experience in asset management, ideally focused on equity market risk, investment risk, or investment departments; direct equity risk experience highly preferred.
- Quantitative or scientific degree preferred; CFA, FRM, or PRM progress/completion preferred.
- Experience with volatility, tracking error, factor/security/sector risk decomposition, and portfolio risk profiles.
- Experience with industry-standard risk modeling, specifically MSCI BarraOne or Aladdin Green Package
- Demonstrated ability to process, analyze, and visualize data; programming skills in common visualization, languages/statistical packages, with Power BI, Python preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
- High level of ownership and sound judgment.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining focus on high impact initiatives.
- Applicants for employment must have work authorization that does not now, or in the future, require sponsorship of a visa for employment in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Identify and assess key risks and trends by conducting in-depth risk analysis across style, sector, country, cap-size, and other dimensions using tools such as Barra, Aladdin, or similar risk systems.
- Translate complex quantitative output into concise insights and message to communicate with portfolio managers and senior executives.
- Apply advanced analytical methods, including AI and visualization, to improve the efficiency, consistency, and insightfulness of risk monitoring.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, market developments and emerging risk themes to proactively identify potential vulnerabilities and strengthen the risk oversight function.
- Help lead the team’s transition to Aladdin, including analytics validation, model comparison, interpretation of outputs, and dashboard enhancements.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- 401(k) plan with a generous match
- Recognition rewards
- Competitive healthcare options
- Insurance
- Disability benefits
- Employee stock investment program
- Learning resources
- Career development programs
- Reimbursement for certain education expenses
- Paid time off (vacation / holidays / sick / parental & caregiving leave / bereavement / volunteering / floating holidays)
- Motivational wellbeing program
- Three weeks of PTO in your first year
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with an 85% company match on pre-tax and/or Roth contributions, up to IRS limits
- Employee Stock Investment Plan (ESIP) with discounted share purchase opportunities
- Learning Education Assistance Program (LEAP)
- Opportunity to purchase company funds with no sales charge
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
