Description
Our client, a fund manager based in Edinburgh are looking for an Investment Risk Analyst for their Fixed Income products to work on a system implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Working closely with Fixed Income Investment Risk Manager to coordinate testing approaches, execute testing, analyse the results between their two systems.
- Working as a member of the project team.
- Clear reporting of the testing status/results through test execution;
- Working closely with the other members of the project team to assess the most efficient way for project delivery;
Skills/Experience
- Sound understanding of Fixed Income products and related terminologies such as duration, DTS
- Strong understanding of investment risk analytics such as tracking error, VaR
- Expertise of risk attribution systems
- CFA, FRM, or similar investment/risk management qualification preferred
- Proven ability to understand and interpret complex business systems
- Proven ability to understand the technical integrations systems
- Strong problem solving & communication skills
- Demonstrable experience of helping improve testing or delivery processes
- Software Testing in an agile environment