Junior Risk Manager

Junior Risk Manager£100,000 GBPOnsite WORKINGLocation: Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: PermanentOur 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: Identify and evaluate risk associated with discretionary trading strategiesCollaborate with Quantitative Researcher and Traders on the strategies analysisEnsure the strategies are run within the risk allocation defined by the Investment CommitteeAnalyze risk at the portfolio level and performance driversHelp with trade portfolio construction across the discretionary businessDrive the build out of risk framework by improving the firm's processes and infrastructure for management of the discretionary businessQualificationsEducation: 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: (guidelines) From graduate level up to 3 years of commercial experienceRequired Skillset: Demonstrated interest in Risk ManagementDemonstrated interest in a quantitative approachCapacity to collaborate with the trading, analysts and quants teamStrong communication skills with the ability to collaborate with teammates globallyStrong sense of urgency with the ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.Reference: AMC/THO/JRM/001Postcode: EC2M#thhoTPBN1_UKTJ