Investment Risk Manager

Marsh McLennan

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Secor team at Mercer. This role will be based in New York. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office. The Investment Risk Manager is responsible for overseeing and understanding the various investment risks undertaken within the firm’s portfolio management business.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant investment risk management experience in a buy side firm
• Detailed understanding of risk measurement and risk management approaches
• Ability to accurately evaluate and quantify risks under both normal and stressed market conditions using both vendor and proprietary tools
• Strong understanding of fixed income analytics, security valuation and bond math required
• Have strong analytical skills to enable problem solving and development of solutions that can be scaled across numerous portfolios
• Must be detail oriented and have strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently
• Bachelor’s Degree in finance, math, computer science, or other quantitative field required
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel required

Nice To Haves

• Experience with CRIMS, Bloomberg and Yield Book a plus
• Experience in Python or similar programming languages a plus

Responsibilities

• Monitor portfolios to ensure conformity with established investment risk guidelines.
• Investigate any investment guidelines exceptions and unexpected behavior that arise in the portfolio management process and respond in real time.
• Report exceptions to the Compliance officer and Management.
• Collaborate with portfolio management teams to understand investment objectives and formulate suitable investment guidelines.
• Provide analytical insight to enhance the investment and risk management process.
• Perform risk analysis on portfolios and their benchmarks, reporting on market, liquidity and concentration risk.
• Present portfolio risk and performance analysis to senior leaders across the firm.
• Coordinate the addition of new instruments, portfolios and counterparties to the risk monitoring process.
• Oversee and control the coding of investment guidelines into the risk system to ensure independent rule setting.
• Develop risk measurement approaches and mitigation strategies.

Benefits

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.
• health and welfare benefits
• tuition assistance
• 401K savings and other retirement programs
• employee assistance programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees