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What is the Investment Risk Management Team responsible for?

The Investment Risk Management department is responsible for risk oversight of multi-asset and private-debt portfolios, as well as developing the risk management framework for real-asset portfolios and ensuring that they fall within the risk appetite defined by the organization.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of the Senior Investment Risk Analyst?

  • Monitoring and oversight of risk exposures for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions funds

  • Producing and managing accurate and timely risk dashboards that support analytical requests from portfolio managers and senior risk managers

  • Performing risk analysis on portfolios and their benchmarks and reporting on market, liquidity, and concentration risks

  • Leveraging multi-factor risk models to produce ex-ante risk insights and clearly communicating the analysis to both technical and non-technical audiences

  • Staying informed of the emergent and macro risks

What ideal qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful? 

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field such as quantitative finance, statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering, or computer science

  • 3 to 7 years of relevant risk management experience at an investment management firm or a risk model vendor like MSCI, Axioma etc.

  • Significant experience with the modeling and functionality of linear and non-linear derivatives like swaps, options, and futures

  • Intellectual curiosity towards financial markets

  • CFA or FRM, or progress towards those certifications preferred

  • Strong statistical programming and data analysis skills

What technology skill sets are critical to the success of this role?

  • Tech stack required for this role: PowerBI/Tableau (or similar BI tool), SQL and Python (or similar programing language)

  • Experience with one or more of the following systems strongly preferred: MSCI RiskMetrics, MSCI BarraOne or Aladdin


Employees

Jonathan Malawer

Manager | Asset Manager

United States of America

Pushpam Jain

Investor | Government Pension

United States of America

Christopher Browne, CFA

Manager

United States of America

Eugene Podkaminer

Manager

United States of America

David Zahn

Manager

United Kingdom

Chris Tatlock

Manager

United States of America