Equities Investment Risk Specialist

3 days ago

Melbourne, Australia SMC Executive Full time

Global Fund Manager
- 2nd LoD, Partner with Equities Investment Team
- Quantitative Investment Risk, Equity Index Funds & ETF's

This is a unique opportunity to join a market leading global investment manager who is renowned for its strong working culture and is widely considered an employer of choice. They have a strong and emerging presence in the Australian market and have recently enjoyed an exciting period of growth.

The Equities Investment Risk Specialist role reports to the Head of Equities Risk and forms part of a 2nd Line Risk team who provide a wholistic risk partnership relationship to the Equities team.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Develop and implement risk management infrastructure to manage, measure, monitor, and report aggregate global equity investment risk exposures. Provide thought leadership to improve the equity investment process through value added research and insights.
- Develop and implement best practices for equity investment and business activities to control various risks. Provide guidance on equity investment risk management policies and procedures, limits, and guidelines.
- Utilise a variety of analytical resources to develop and enhance existing risk-return analysis, including performance attribution, multifactor risk models, scenario analysis, and stress testing.
- Use expertise and judgement to manage a broad range of potential investment risks for both existing equity funds and new product assessments. Develop clear, actionable insights to influence the equity investment management process and enhance risk-adjusted returns. Present thorough, clear, and insightful analysis to senior leaders, portfolio managers, and traders.
- Develop and implement increasingly complex processes, tools, and techniques to evaluate and validate equity investments models and advance equity risk management capabilities. Implement ongoing model validation processes.
- Maintain deep understanding of financial markets, quantitative drivers, and general investment themes in order to bring an informed perspective to the risk management processes.
- Participate in special projects and performs other duties as required.
- Degree qualified with professional certifications preferred (CFA or FRM)
- Minimum of eight years relevant work experience within market/investment risk management with equities risk experience preferred.
- Strong working knowledge of equity factor risk models (e.g Axioma, MSCI/Barra, Northfield)
- Coding experience in Python and SQL and experience using FactSet an advantage.

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