About the Employer:
InfraHedge team provides managed account infrastructure for institutional investors to invest in hedge funds. Our services are based on independent governance, transparency, and rigorous risk management for hedge fund investments. We bring decades of experience in building efficient financial operations infrastructure and a deep understanding of how to mitigate operational risk for institutions investing in hedge funds.
State Street Risk Analytics combines unique capabilities in data and analytics to better serve our clients and build relationships with new customers. Through information and insights, investment analytics and data solutions, our goal is to help our clients to generate the most value.
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State Street Risk Analytics' truView platform is a web-based application providing a full suite of analytics that give clients insight into the risks and performance of their investment portfolios. Supporting all asset classes, the platform produces analytics such as: stress testing, value at risk (VaR), position specific analytics for derivatives (delta, gamma, vega etc.) and fixed income characteristics such as duration and convexity
Our core values are as follows and we expect all employees to demonstrate these in day to day work:
Team work
Openness
Positive Attitude
Customer delight
Excellence
Job Description:
- Manage systematic model testing for VaR, Vol, TE, stress testing and support Back testing
- End to end servicing of clients
- Reconcile risk results against accounting reports and independent data. Investigates further where necessary
- To provide timely and accurate market data for internal Market risk systems.
- Analyze time series data for information content that may be of use to Risk Managers, such as market liquidity, hedge efficiency
- Support the Client relationship team in ensuring streamlined Investor communications
- The role involves understanding the various processes to generate the risk numbers retrieved by various risk feeds. This will involve evaluation and analysis of Market risk exposures by employing statistical and other approaches.
- Assist in specifying new functionality to further streamline operational processes
- Provide support, resolve client issues, and demonstrate a firm understanding of the product to users (risk managers, traders etc.)
- Assist team development & in the implementation projects for new risk clients
- Work co-operatively with other risk groups in different locations and time zones
- Responsible for accurate and timely processing, operations and controls
- Responsible for migrating / training team members from other State Street locations
- Build engagement with service providers and drive KPIs
- Provide support, resolve client issues, and demonstrate a firm understanding of the product to users (managers, traders etc.)
- Key focus on service delivery excellence and ability to work under pressure.
Skills/Experience Required
- 6 + years of Financial services experience in Market Risk or Hedge Fund accounting/ investment operations of an Investment Bank.
- Good understanding of all financial instruments including complex OTC products.
- Understands Hedge Fund Strategies and hedge fund investing or hedge fund accounting methodologies.
- Ability to lead the team and train team members
- Ability to work in a team under tight deadlines.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong understanding of financial markets and risk management techniques.
- Highly motivated, multi-task capable and willingness to learn and develop within role.
- Working knowledge of with SQL query and Advanced Excel.
- Bloomberg and/or Reuters knowledge.
- FRM, CA or CFA qualification is an advantage, however not mandatory.
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