Equity L/S Senior Risk Manager

The Senior Equity L/S Risk Manager will report to the Head of Equity L/S risk and will work collaboratively with a broader risk team, Quants, Portfolio Managers, and Developers to provide risk guidance and help grow the Equity business.

The Senior Equity L/S Risk Manager will be responsible for the following

• Own the risk monitoring and oversight of a set of Equity portfolios, as well as a broader view on risk across the Equity L/S business

• Support and challenge Portfolio Managers in their investment process and risk management

• Monitor global market development and contribute to the definition risk scenarios

• Manage and enhance the processes, models, tools, and systems used to identify, assess, measure, manage, monitor, and report risks across the equities business

• Monitor areas where risk is identified and work with business teams to mitigate risk

• Perform risk analytics and take initiative on emerging risks and proactively identify risk concentrations

• Enhance and leverage factor models to provide insight on factor stress regime, crowding, and risk forecasting around earnings and other events

• Work across a larger global risk team to help monitor global market development and communicate the impact to our global portfolios and help drive commercial results

Requirements

• 10 or more years of experience in risk, quant, structuring or trading roles

• Experience providing risk guidance and analysis to Portfolio Managers and/or Traders

• Familiarity with equity factor modeling techniques, risk prediction, and stress modeling

• Strong programming ability in Python

• Deep knowledge of long/short equity investment

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact effectively with various team members

• Degree in Finance or a STEM discipline with a Master’s degree preferred