Risk Manager (6-Months Contract)

About the Company

A prominent global asset management firm.

About the Job

• Comprehensive Risk Oversight: Oversee, manage, and track all facets of risk management by utilizing the organization's standardized frameworks, methodologies, and tools.

• Investment Compliance & Guidelines: Monitor portfolios to ensure strict adherence to regulatory requirements, internal policies, and specific client mandates.

• Market Risk Assessment: Evaluate market-related exposures, including portfolio liquidity, asset pricing, VaR/TE, and simulated stress testing.

• Credit & Counterparty Evaluation: Analyze and manage credit exposures alongside counterparty risk profiles.

• Performance Analysis: Direct the measurement, contribution, and attribution analysis of portfolio performance.

• Operational Risk Management: Supervise internal permanent controls and operational risk mitigation frameworks.

• ESG Risk Integration: Monitor and assess Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk factors within portfolios.

• Investment Control Leadership: Lead quarterly portfolio review sessions focusing on market risk and performance dynamics.

• Process Optimization: Evaluate and refine risk management workflows in collaboration with the Investment team, delivering actionable feedback to global process owners.

• Risk Reporting & Presentations: Formulate comprehensive activity and business development risk reports for delivery to local Risk Committees and centralized executive teams.

• Cross-Hub Collaboration: Coordinate closely with international risk hubs to share methodologies, standardize tools, and drive new risk-related developments.

• Cross-Functional Synergy: Partner with internal departments such as Investments, Middle Office, and Trading, stepping in to support broader risk initiatives under the direction of regional leadership.

Skills and Requirements

• Comprehensive Risk Management Expertise: Strong proficiency across market risk, credit risk, investment compliance, performance attribution, and operational risk.

• Analytical Capabilities: Proven experience handling quantitative metrics such as VaR, Tracking Error, stress testing, and liquidity analysis.

• Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication skills to interface effectively with Investment, Trading, and Middle Office teams, as well as global risk hubs.

• Reporting & Presentation Skills: Competency in structuring complex risk data into clear presentations for executive and local risk committees.

• Adaptability: Ability to support diverse risk functions and collaborate across borders within a global matrix organization.

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