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