Vacancy detail

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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