Intermediate Investment Risk Analyst

Job description

Main responsibilities

What we are offering:
Integrated in a 6-headcount team at AXA IM head office, covering all asset classes from a credit/market/counterparty risks standpoint - working jointly with Quant Risk team on investments models, liquidity risk & complex valuations - as part of independent risk control function, you will be responsible of:

• Analyzing Investment Risks for new products/strategies
• Risk Policies and Frameworks: definition, maintenance and enhancement, in interaction with front office teams and other stakeholders
• Setting Internal Risk Guidelines. Ensuring analysis, remediation - and escalation if need be - of Internal Investment Guidelines breaches raised by the Investment Guidelines team
• Market stress testing
• Maintaining a broad awareness of portfolio risk positioning on an ongoing basis through risk monitoring/reporting. Identification of potential market risks linked to market trends/fund behaviors
• Jointly working with Quant Risk team on liquidity topics
• Improving team coverage analysis quality and value added by enhancing existing tools/approaches and developing new ones
• Interaction with local risk teams

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Experience and Qualifications
What we are looking for:

• At least 5/8Y in banking or asset management industries
• Good knowledge in all liquid asset classes: mechanism & risk modelling
• Educated, preferably master's level, in Mathematics, Finance or related Quantitative discipline
• Good quantitative and programming skills in VBA and basic knowledge of database handling
• Proficiency in database handling, knowledge of MSCI Riskmetrics and languages such as Python are desirable
• Fluency in English and with Excel is mandatory
• Analytical, proactive, self-motivated team player willing to influence team continuous development
• Pragmatic and result orientated mindset: deliver timely, tangible, exploitable results which create value