Description
Market Risk Manager/Asset Management/VaR/Fixed Income/Risk Metrics/Hedge Fund/Market Risk/London/Financial Market/Risk Management
A leading Asset Management organisation is looking for a Market Risk Manager to work on a new Strategic Risk Project to implement a new risk analysis engine. The Market Risk Manager is required to ensure that the requirements of the business are suitably specified and represented on the project. Most importantly the candidate is expected to perform successful delivery of the Strategic Risk Platform.
Key responsibilities for the role are as follows:
Undertake risk analysis on Fixed Income funds and communicate this with the fund managers, team members and management
Responsible for developing good and appropriate risk measures
Develop key relationships with the Fixed Income desks and product development team
Be able to discuss risk management with investors
Essential experience required:
Good understanding of the financial markets and risk management
Good understanding of Fixed Income
Good understanding of Risk Metrics
Thorough understanding of how to model various financial instruments
Comprehensive understanding of different Market Risk measures and the underlying methodologies
In depth knowledge and experience of working within an Asset environment is a pre requisite for this role!
Aston Carter Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.