I am currently working with a Global, Multi-strat and manager hedge fund in London looking to onboard a a Senior Risk Manager for the Fixed income business. This individual will have a strong investment risk or market risk background overlooking investment or hedge fund trading strategies.
Responsibilities:
- Managing the day-to-day operations across the risk function incl. Validating margin methodologies, limits setting, Reports/investor reports and analysis of fund performance.
- Work closely with the portfolio management team, quant researchers, and senior risk managers to add necessary insights to the portfolio construction and asset allocation process
- Provide insight regarding drivers of risk movements to senior management and portfolio managers.
- Work directly with portfolio managers, help understand how they view risk, the strategies and how best to risk manage the portfolios.
- Work strategically to further develop the risk management framework and policy and to create and maintain a suite of risk metrics that accurately reflect the risk profile of the strategies.
- Day to day responsibility for managing the fixed income portfolio.
- Provide day to day oversight of the production of risk reports and analytics covering all exposures and drivers of risk and PnL
Requirements:
- A Degree in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Engineering or an equivalent in other science disciplines
- 4-10 years experience working within a Market Risk or Investment Risk role overlooking hedge fund strategies.
- Strong knowledge of Fixed Income/Rates.
- Experience in a risk management role covering Fixed Income and/or Macro strategies in which they are directly responsible for the oversight of, and interactions with, risk takers
- Understanding of the assets and hedge fund strategies employed in Fixed Income and Macro, and specifically experience managing Interest Rate Volatility product risk (e.g., Swaptions, Caps/Floors, Interest Rate Options, Bond Options, and/or exotics)
- Experience developing risk measurement and analytics tools used in day-to-day risk management (e.g., identification of appropriate measures, models, and stress tests to assess portfolio or strategy risk)
- Python experience is advantageous.
- Portfolio construction experience.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with researchers, technologists, PMs, and senior manager
