£100,000 GBP

Onsite WORKING

Location: Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent

Our client is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for their clients. They have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute their success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, they design and build their own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, they emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning their investment, technology, and operations teams functionally around the world.

Position Overview:

• Assess and monitor the risk profile of discretionary trading strategies, identifying key exposures and potential areas of concern.
• Support the construction and optimisation of trading portfolios across the discretionary investment business.
• Work closely with Quantitative Researchers and Traders to assess strategy performance, risk characteristics and overall portfolio impact.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen the firm's risk management framework, enhancing processes, tools and infrastructure used to oversee the discretionary trading activities.
• Conduct portfolio-level risk analysis, assessing performance attribution, key drivers and interactions between individual strategies.
• Monitor adherence to risk limits and capital allocations established by the Investment Committee.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or related field (includes degrees in Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, Computer Science and Physics); advanced degree preferred.

Years Experience:

• From graduate level up to 3 years of commercial experience

Required Skillset:

• Demonstrated interest in Risk Management
• Demonstrated interest in a quantitative approach
• Capacity to collaborate with the trading, analysts and quants team
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate with teammates globally
• Strong sense of urgency with the ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.