Team Lead - Market Risk, Credit Products

About the role

This individual will play a critical role in overseeing portfolio and market risk across a diverse range of fixed income, structured credit, private credit, and equity strategies. The position requires a strong understanding of complex credit products, quantitative risk analytics, and portfolio construction within a buy-side environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop, enhance, and maintain portfolio-level risk frameworks, methodologies, and reporting tools.
• Analyze investment portfolios and underlying holdings to identify market, liquidity, concentration, and factor risks.
• Monitor key portfolio risk measures including volatility, beta, tracking error, concentration exposures, and correlation analysis.
• Design and perform stress testing, scenario analysis, and portfolio sensitivity assessments.
• Establish, monitor, and report key risk indicators, thresholds, and risk limits, including Value-at-Risk (VaR) metrics.
• Evaluate macroeconomic and market developments and assess potential portfolio impacts.
• Support valuation and risk assessment of complex and difficult-to-price securities.
• Provide risk oversight and analytical support for new investment products and strategic initiatives.
• Utilize Python, SQL, business intelligence tools, and market data platforms to develop and automate risk analytics.
• Aggregate and standardize data from multiple sources to create consistent, transparent, and scalable risk reporting.
• Analyze large and complex datasets to identify trends, emerging risks, and actionable insights.
• Present risk assessments, portfolio observations, and recommendations to senior management and investment committees.
• Partner with portfolio managers, traders, research analysts, relationship managers, compliance, legal, and technology teams on risk-related matters.
• Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of risk policies, governance frameworks, and analytical capabilities.
• Mentor and oversee junior team members, supporting their professional development and day-to-day activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Risk Management, Business Analytics, Economics, or a related discipline.
• 9+ years of experience in market risk, portfolio risk, or investment risk management within a buy-side institution.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing portfolio-level risk across multiple asset classes.
• Strong knowledge of structured credit and fixed income products, including securitized assets and leveraged credit instruments.
• Experience with market risk methodologies including VaR, stress testing, expected shortfall, correlation analysis, and factor-based risk modelling.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, SQL, Excel, and financial market data platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations.
• Experience presenting risk analysis and portfolio observations to senior stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience managing risk across asset classes such as asset-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations, leveraged loans, high-yield debt, preferred securities, private credit, and public equities.
• Knowledge of portfolio construction, investment management processes, and institutional asset management practices.
• Experience building automated reporting, risk dashboards, and analytical tools.
• Prior people management or team leadership experience.

Pay

Base compensation $150,000 - $200,000 plus 50%-130% bonus.