Working for one of the US’s largest institutional investment managers, this role will lead a team of global professionals responsible for providing data insight to support decision making around investment risk.
To succeed in this role, you will need to be an experienced people leader within the analytics profession, preferably from another investment manager.
You will own the risk modelling process, helping to measure, monitor mitigate risks impacting portfolios managed by the firm.
Responsibilities
- Ownership of risk analytics infrastructure – ensuring models have the proper input data quality, whilst managing relationship with external vendors to ensure tools are operating with accurate data.
- Delivery of accurate and timely risk metrics, reports and dashboards needed by the wider Investment Risk department to deliver independent risk oversight, as well as facilitate information to colleagues within investment decision teams (PMs/Traders).
- Driving the Risk Analytics Target Operating Model change across the firm, partnering with investment teams and technology to achieve superior efficiency. This team is considered as a ‘center of excellence’ for business intelligence tools to support risk reporting and dashboards.
- Represent Investment Risk on the Chief Data Office’s Data Management Working Group.
Required experience
- Experience of leading teams of at least 6-7 staff, preferably across multiple US sites and/or internationally.
- 10+ years of relevant work experience [directly within risk or investment analytics, or related operational / data leadership roles].
- Experience working in investment management is preferred. Other experience across financial services (sell-side securities, broker-dealer or consumer banking backgrounds, for example, may be considered)
- Strong knowledge of data quality assessment techniques; either with inhouse proprietary tools, or experience in vendor management.
- Extensive experience deploying reports and dashboards using business intelligence tools.
Working patterns
This role is based in Baltimore, MD. Working pattern is to be considered as hybrid – with eligibility to work from home two days per week [exceptions beyond this may be considered, but this is not a fully remote opportunity].
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