Senior Risk Analyst

Columbia Threadneedle Investments is a leading global asset management group that provides a broad range of actively managed investment strategies and solutions for individual, institutional and corporate clients around the world. With more than 2000 people including over 450 investment professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia, we manage over $400 billion of assets (as of May 2018) across developed and emerging market equities, fixed income, asset allocation solutions and alternatives. Our priority is the investment success of our clients. We know investors want strong and repeatable risk-adjusted returns and we aim to deliver this through an active and consistent investment approach that is team-based, risk-aware and performance-driven.

Job Description:

This role assists senior risk managers to measure, monitor, analyze, and manage investment risk across Columbia Threadneedle's collection of funds. The role will also work with other stakeholders to assess whether portfolios can deliver on risk/return objectives across a variety of market conditions.

Responsibilities:

• Manage processes for product stress test requirements for the firm's mutual funds and Solutions business to aid in the assessment whether portfolios are designed meet proposed risk/return objectives across a variety of economic and market cycles. Design and run unique stress tests and simulations, review results, and communicate findings to Risk managers and business leaders as needed.
• Support the Head of Investment Risk and senior team members to analyze relationships of portfolio holdings and risk measures in order to measure, monitor, and analyze and manage investment risk.
• Enhance Investment Risk solutions and develop new risk reports to help risk management better measure, monitor, and manage investment risk on behalf of our clients.
• Provide additional research and analysis of ad-hoc risk issues as necessary, interacting with the Investment Team as needed. Work with Technology and Operations to resolve system and data issues as necessary.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics or other relevant area of study.
• 7-10 years of relevant experience.
• Programming experience with Excel VBA, SQL Server/Access databases, and at least one programming language (e.g. Python, R or Matlab).
• Experience and familiarity with risk models, asset/factor allocation modeling, portfolio construction, stress testing, and financial market instruments across asset classes, including derivatives.
• Excellent analytical capabilities and demonstrated ability to creatively model risk and return.
• Broad understanding of investment management and financial risk management, including common statistical techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to effectively communicate complex analyses and conclusions to stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze fund performance, including under various hypothetical market scenarios.
• Ability to collaborate closely with team members on projects maintain good relationship with business partners.
• MS Office skills and Excel abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preference will be given to candidates with Master of Financial Mathematics or any of the following designations: CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), FRM (Financial Risk Manager), or PRM (Professional Risk Manager).
• Experience providing investment risk management oversight.
• Understanding of portfolio construction and financial instruments.
• Experience and familiarity with Blackrock Aladdin and/or data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI).
• 5+ years of experience preferably in risk management, investment management, or capital markets.

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