Asset Management - Alternatives Investment Risk Associate
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Measure, monitor, and independently assess risks in investment activities, escalating issues to senior management. Monitor stress, performance, liquidity, and counterparty risk metrics against thresholds while performing deep-dive analysis on outliers. Collaborate with investment and control teams to develop understanding of risk profiles for Alternative funds and portfolios. Identify and highlight emerging risks across portfolios, assessing potential impact to the business. Support improvements to transparency and infrastructure for capturing and reporting risk exposures. Look for innovation opportunities in risk oversight processes, policies, and procedures for Investment, Liquidity and Counterparty Risk, ensuring compliance is maintained. This role focuses on Real Estate and Private Credit within the global Alternatives platform.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of experience in financial services industry related to trading, portfolio management, risk management, and/or investment risk across asset classes
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- inquisitive nature
- comfortable in challenging current practices
- Strong quantitative skills
- curiosity
- ability to pursue analysis and deep dive risk reviews independently
- Prior experience with coding and data visualization tools such as Python, SQL & Tableau
- Solid communication and interpersonal skills
- effective business interaction
Desired Qualifications
- Post-graduate degree
- additional certifications such as CFA or CAIA
- Buy-side and alternatives experience
- Familiarity with modeling
- working knowledge of portfolio valuations and risk systems
- Familiarity with market risk methodologies
- stress testing
- sensitivities
- Experience in alternatives risk
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