This individual will provide independent, forward-looking risk insight across portfolios, combining deep credit expertise with quantitative portfolio analysis. The successful candidate will have significant buy-side risk experience and the ability to translate complex portfolio and market dynamics into actionable recommendations for investment professionals and senior management.
Client Details
Well-established global financial institution, located in Midtown, NY.
Description
- Lead investment risk oversight across credit portfolios, with particular focus on structured credit, private credit, leveraged loans and high-yield investments
- Partner closely with Portfolio Managers on portfolio construction, asset allocation, and risk positioning
- Identify and assess emerging portfolio, credit, market, and liquidity risks
- Develop and implement portfolio-level risk frameworks, analytics, and models
- Evaluate individual positions and overall portfolios across measures including concentration, volatility, correlations and other key risk factors
- Conduct scenario analysis and stress testing to assess portfolio vulnerabilities
- Develop and monitor key risk indicators, thresholds, and portfolio risk metrics
- Monitor macroeconomic, credit, and market developments and assess their potential portfolio impact
- Provide independent risk perspectives and recommendations to Portfolio Managers and senior stakeholders
- Support risk analysis for new products, investment strategies, and complex or difficult-to-value securities
- Work with large datasets to identify trends, concentrations, and other meaningful portfolio insights
- Develop and present clear, actionable risk analysis to senior management
- Partner across investment, trading, research, technology, and control functions
- Manage and develop junior members of the risk team
Profile
- 10+ years of relevant investment, portfolio, or financial risk experience, ideally within an asset manager, hedge fund, pension fund, insurance investment platform, or other buy-side environment
- Strong experience evaluating credit portfolios, including meaningful exposure to structured credit
- Knowledge of products such as ABS, CMBS, CLOs, private credit, leveraged loans, and high-yield bonds
- Strong understanding of portfolio construction, asset allocation, and investment risk management
- Experience with portfolio risk analytics, including stress testing, VaR, correlations, concentration analysis, and related risk measures
- Ability to identify emerging risks and communicate their potential impact to investment professionals and senior stakeholders
- Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities
- Proficiency with Python, SQL, Bloomberg, and Excel
- Experience presenting sophisticated risk analysis to senior decision-makers
- Prior experience managing or mentoring junior team members preferred
- Bachelor's degree in finance, mathematics, risk management, business analytics or a related discipline
Job Offer
All-in compensation ranging from $300,000 - $675,000.
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