The Senior Risk Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing overall market risk strategies, monitoring, analysing and reporting of the fund’s risk exposures, ensuring limits are well monitored and reported, identifying material risks, proposing risk mitigations and following up on actions taken for any breaches or alerts. The jobholder will need to maintain and monitor risk indicators, manage the risk exposures in close collaboration with the firm’s Investment Committee, build models for hedging assets, manage vendors, subscribe to necessary data and services for the Portfolio Managers and Quant team and advise PM’s on risk allocations based on Barra risk models.
The successful candidate will be a degree holder (ideally in a Quantitative discipline) who has gained at least 8 years’ Risk Management experience in a hedge fund, quantitative trading firm or investment bank. Candidates with Algorithmic Trading exposure or Execution Trading experience are preferred. Applicants will need to be proficient in programming skills (incl. Python, C++), with the ability to clearly convey technical ideas and translate these ideas into clean, robust, efficient code. Candidates will need to have experience of designing, implementing and testing trading systems, ideally with a background in alpha research and development and have the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.