Asset & Wealth Management - Portfolio Construction / Risk - Vice President - London

The Portfolio Construction and Risk Team is an integral part of Fixed Income and Liquidity Solutions. The team is responsible for:

• Monitoring all fixed income mandates' positioning, risk, and performance.
• Overseeing the investment process across all desks and collaborating with senior PMs to drive and contribute to process improvements.
• Owning and improving proprietary fixed income risk models.
• Establishing the platform's risk frameworks and thresholds.

Daily tasks of the team include recurring risk and performance monitoring and analysis, leading discussion forums about the same with CIOs and senior investors - offering insights, making recommendations, and asking questions. The team works closely with senior PMs to improve investment and risk monitoring processes and collaborates with quantitative strategists on risk model updates and investment tools.

Skills required for this role are:

• Strong analytical and quantitative background.
• Fixed income and/or investment risk management experience is a requirement.
• Experience dealing with open-ended problems and projects.
• Excellent follow-through.
• Process-oriented mindset.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort with multi-stakeholder projects and interactions.
• Programming skills are a plus.

The expectation of the VP hire is to be able to ramp up quickly and operate with a large degree of independence in a short time.