Investment Risk Manager

What is the opportunity?

This position can be located in one the following office locations: Baltimore, MD; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Toronto-Canada; Calgary-Canada; Mexico City; Sao Paulo-Brazil. Additional locations considered: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, and Texas. Must have work authorization for the location desired.

What are the ongoing responsibilities?- Oversee the independent risk management of the High Yield and Floating Rate (Bank Loans) strategies.- Identify persistent risks and developing risks of the strategies, develop insights and recommendations, document these risks, communicate insights and recommendations to RISK management, and present these findings and suggestions to the investment teams on a regular basis.- Contribute insight to the impact to Multisector portfolios from persistent and developing risks of High Yield and Floating Rate sectors and make recommendations.- Review or establish appropriate internal guidelines for the High Yield and Floating Rate portfolios, monitor these guidelines, and report exceptions on a regular basis.- Contribute to review of current risk system and risk measures and analytics from this system and provide recommendations for improvement; contribute to review of potential alternative risk systems.- Be an ambassador for conveying the mission of the RISK department and the framework of independent risk management including the guideline and escalation procedure and explain these concepts in client meetings when necessary.- Represent RISK at committee meetings such as the Complex Securities Committee meetings.-
- Collaborate with Investment Risk Services (RINO) to ensure proper use of technology and analytical platforms supported by the Risk Transformation team.- Collaborate with Technology Teams to ensure that software created conforms to engineering best practices, including making sure the code is well-documented and easily readable.- Mentor junior personnel by providing investment risk management training and sharing fixed income knowledge.

What ideal qualifications, skills and experience would help the Investment Risk Manager be successful?- This position requires 8+ years of Investment Risk Management in Fixed Income, particularly in High Yield and/or Floating Rate (Bank Loans).- CFA and FRM- Masters or above preferably in finance, financial engineering or math, statistics, or other quantitative discipline with courses in finance and economics. MBAs will be considered.- Strong quantitative skills.- Strong technical skills. In particular 3+ years of Power BI and SQL experience preferred. Tableau, Python, Excel macro, VBA and other programming skills will be considered.- Experience with Bloomberg PORT preferred.- Strong verbal and written communications skills.- Ability to work independently but also collaboratively, think out-of-the-box and provide analysis and recommendations with credibility and confidence.- Ability to manage multiple projects but focus on and complete priority tasks.

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- Three weeks paid time off the first year
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with 75% company match on your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions, up to the IRS limits
- Employee Stock Investment Program
- Tuition Assistance Program
- Purchase of company funds with no sales charge
- Onsite fitness center and recreation center

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