As a Senior Risk Manager, you will work as part of a flexible team and contribute by assessing, monitoring, and reporting on all risks pertaining to the funds under the governance as well as further developing the risk culture within the organization. A key focus lies on our Real Estate and Infrastructure AIFs.
Your Area of Responsibility:
- Support the initial and ongoing Risk Assessment and Risk Profiling of new funds including the definition/review of appropriate risk limits
- Pre-Trade analysis and assessment of less liquid assets (e.g. Real Estate and Infrastructure Equity and Debt assets)
- Ongoing monitoring and escalation of the different types of risks our funds may be exposed to (Market -, Liquidity -, Counterparty -, Credit -, Valuation - and Operational Risk as well as other fund specific risks)
- Support the valuation function for AIFs from a risk management perspective
- Maintaining and supporting the improvement of existing risk management policy and framework
- As part of the Risk & Compliance team:
- advise on risk-related aspects of European regulatory issues including, but not limited to, AIFMD and UCITS
- Support Management in the (risk) assessment of new initiatives
- Contribute to the initial and ongoing Due Diligence as well as ongoing monitoring of service providers from a risk perspective
- Participation in various local and global committees and working groups and close collaboration with the Pan-European Risk team
- Preparation of reporting to internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Management Committee, Board of Directors, the group, regulator (e.g. periodic UCITS Risk Reporting, AIFMD Transparency Reporting) and audit)
Your Profile:
- 5+ years of professional risk management and/or valuation experience in the investment funds industry (AIF (Real Estate and/or Infrastructure) and ideally UCITS).
- Risk management & regulatory expertise in AIFMD and ideally UCITS (including applicable investment restrictions),
- Entrepreneurial mindset to set-up, implement required processes, and further improve them
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills
- Ability to challenge new ideas in terms of fund structuring, investment strategy, and investment processes from a risk perspective
- Strong team player, dynamic and resilient with the ability to work independently
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and German or French