Vontobel is a global investment manager that focuses on equities, fixed income, multi‑asset class, and alternative investing. Our Investment Risk Team measures, assesses, and challenges all investment‑related risks across our actively managed portfolios and supports the Risk Infrastructure landscape.
What would your role be?
* Identify, assess, measure, monitor, mitigate, and report on market, liquidity, credit, counterparty, and sustainability risks across multiple asset classes and investment structures.
* Provide an independent view of investment risk profiles to investment teams, deploying quantitative tools such factor risk decomposition, scenario simulations, and other stress tests.
* Agree appropriate investment risk measures to be monitored and reviewed as appropriate, and escape issues where required.
* Organise and manage formal risk reviews with investment teams.
* Contribute to interactions with internal and external stakeholders, e.g. clients, auditors, in the capacity of subject matter expert on investment risk management.
* Be a contributor to the different Governance Bodies, such as Investment Performance Committee and other executive committees.
* Collaborate as required with other Risk functions within Vontobel, including Operational Risk, Investment Control, Compliance, and Management Company risk teams.
* Support the Head of Investment Risk in developing and maintaining an adequate risk management framework and infrastructure that maximises efficiency whilst ensuring completeness and effectiveness, while fostering a positive risk culture across the firm.
What are we looking for?
* Industry experience: at least 5 years’ experience in an investment risk management or portfolio management role, preferably in an asset management firm.
* Quantitative and/or quantitative finance related education: a first degree in a strongly quantitative subject, such as engineering, physics, applied mathematics, economics, or finance. A CFA, FRM or other industry qualification would be an advantage.
* Asset class and financial instrument knowledge: a strong base in at least one of fixed‑income (rates and credit) and equities, with a good understanding of FX and multi‑asset investing, and an all‑round understanding of risks and pricing of derivative instruments.
* Quantitative and programming skills: experience of deploying databases and programming languages to manage, analyse and interpret data (e.g. SQL, Python, R, Matlab).
* Specific subject knowledge: multi‑factor market risk modelling, liquidity risk modelling and concepts of counterparty risk.
* First‑hand experience of risk systems (e.g. MSCI BarraOne, MSCI RiskMetrics, Bloomberg Enterprise).
* Regulatory knowledge: experience of the Swiss and Luxembourg regulatory framework for investment managers (UCITS, AIFMD, etc.) is an advantage.
* A desire to solve problems, take initiative to obtain required information, innovate where appropriate and follow issues through to resolution or hand‑over to suitable responsible parties.
* A process‑oriented mindset, able to design, review, manage and document risk‑related processes involving internal and external stakeholders.
* Ability to work closely within the Zürich‑based Risk team, as well as with colleagues in other teams and locations.
* Ability to work independently and be effective in supporting a collaborative effort.
* Languages: fluent written and spoken communication in English; German a plus.
You are
* Entrepreneurially‑spirited, acting proactively wherever you recognise the need to do so, backed by a "can‑do" attitude required to see such initiatives through to completion.
* A team member with strong interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills.
What do we offer?
* Top Zurich location with collaboration spaces and free lunch.
* Friendly, diverse team in an open‑office space.
* All the latest technology to help you excel and advance.
* Agile environment in how we think, work, and trust one another.
* Flat hierarchy with collaboration at all levels.
* Campus feeling and a collaborative spirit.
At Vontobel, we are an equal‑opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. We value the many voices within our teams and are committed to creating an environment where everyone who wants to be part of our performance culture can be themselves. It is based on mutual respect and zero tolerance for any form of discrimination.
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