Risk Analyst

About the role

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and ensure portfolios conform to established and approved risk policy.
• Partner with investment teams to ensure compliance with approved risk limit frameworks.
• Perform risk analysis on portfolios and their benchmarks, reporting on market, liquidity and concentration risk.
• Be able to accurately evaluate risks under both normal and stressed market conditions through the use of both vendor and proprietary tools
• Deliver written memos and presentations to committees and fund boards.
• Present portfolio risk and performance analysis to senior leaders across the firm.
• Have strong programming skills to enable problem solving, development of solutions that can be scaled across numerous portfolios, and the development of proprietary risk measurement approaches and mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with investment teams in monitoring and managing portfolio risk.
• Provide risk analytic insight that enhances the investment process.
• Contribute to the development of new products and investment solutions for clients by collaborating with the investment and business development teams.
• Maintain excellent knowledge of fixed income investments, investment processes, trading strategies, market characteristics and knowledge of regulatory environment.
• Involvement in or ownership of special projects as determined by management

Requirements

• Approximately 1-3 years of experience in the investment management industry.
• Understanding of fixed income financial instruments including derivatives and a familiarity with international markets.
• Understanding of risk models and methodologies.
• Experience with one or more of the following systems desirable: BlackRock Aladdin, MSCI RiskMetrics, MSCI BarraOne, Bloomberg PORT.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in a quantitative field such as quantitative finance, statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering, or computer science.
• Work toward a CFA or FRM designation would be preferable.
• Full-time position.
• Employee worker type.
• Job exempt (Yes).

Skills

• A passion for risk management and a proven interest in financial markets through work experience and outside activities
• Strong statistical programming and data analysis skills
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Excellent communicator with the ability to explain sophisticated ideas clearly and expertly to non-technical/non-quantitative audiences
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritize and handle dynamically changing work requirements in a fast-paced environment