Graduate Investment Risk Analyst

Job Description

Role Purpose:

To gain experience in and contribute to all aspects of the risk team’s process so that you can support and add value to the team whilst developing your knowledge and career within the risk team at Dynamic Planner. The Graduate Investment Risk Analyst will work on several projects directly with their reporting manager to help the team progress in standardising processes. This will cover several topics such as reporting, automation, and enriching risk analytics.

Job Requirements

Competencies (knowledge/skills/experience)

• Data Analysis
• Microsoft Office Suite – Excel and Word, and willing to learn VBA
• Must have coding skills (either of these, R, Python)
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Team player
• Willing to learn, engage and participate
• Attention to detail

Education & Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in numerical subjects like mathematics, computer science, Data Analysis, Statistics, physics and the like

Job Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• The team works directly with internal stakeholders and with Asset Managers to risk profile portfolios
• The team is split in two in terms of activity:
  1. One part of the team is focused on risk modelling and calculating the initial risk profile of the portfolios
  2. The other part of the team reports quarterly on the risk positioning of client portfolios
• The analyst will be working in the first team to ensure that instruments within the portfolios are modelled correctly, work on onboarding new clients/new portfolios, work with the second team to respond to client queries

Job Benefits

Career development:

• Investment Risk Analyst: To work within the team on a long-term basis
• Potential to do a certification which is relevant to the role