Associate - Risk

About Us
WHY Linedata?
Linedata is an award-winning software solutions company. We believe finance matters to our society as much as energy to life and fueling financial transformation is vital for development and leadership.

We humanize technology :
We are passionate experts who provide investment management and credit communities with innovative, user-friendly products which help their businesses grow in over 50 countries

Our environment is international, ego-free and relaxed. We believe in building confidence through giving clear responsibilities to our team members and managing to given goals and targets. We celebrate success and we enjoy each other's company

We employ more than 1350 employees representing 40 nationalities spread throughout our offices in 14 countries. We believe in mobility, diversity & teamwork.

Our mission is to continue to find new ways to create and build flexible, mission-critical software and services and to stay on the cutting edge of the financial software space.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT
We provide the investment management and credit communities with an innovative, user-friendly suite of products that, through detailed market and client insights, help their business to grow in over 50 countries.

We are transforming the financial services community which is in constant evolution.

With our agility, we make technology simple & accessible for our users. Let's work together to achieve the best solutions for our clients.

Commitment to Diversity
We recognize, celebrate, and seek to increase diversity across our organization. Diversity is an asset to organizations and is linked to better performance. It is an integral part of how we do business and imperative to our success. As an international Group, we also believe that our people need to reflect our clients and local communities.

Linedata is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.

It is our intent to maintain a work environment that is free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation based on an individual's race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, age, sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves, domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Job Description
You will join a team that directly caters to the front office of Global Asset Managers/Hedge Funds. As a senior Analyst in Linedata's Risk team, you will work closely with Portfolio Managers and Senior Risk Professionals/CROs. You will be responsible for providing portfolio risk solutions to a buy-side client. The role spans across different aspects of investment risk – generating risk and performance attribution reports, analysing complex scenarios and understanding the drivers of important risk statistics across each aggregation in a portfolio. You are also expected to proactively engage with different stakeholders to ensure well informed and timely investment decision making by the client. You are required to take complete ownership of the deliverables and demonstrate high-quality standards with utmost integrity.

Job Requirement

Responsibilities

• Perform a range of tasks involving analysis of portfolio risk, generating customized dashboards and monitoring risk limits to meet the requirements of clients
• Analyse the drivers of important risk statistics such as exposure concentration, Greeks, value-at-risk, stress tests, historical market views, what-if scenarios and performance attribution
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders and take complete ownership of delivering Investor, Regulatory, and customized risk solutions
• Understand investment deal memos and build customized financial models
• Prioritize and execute multiple assignments including adhoc assignment within tight deadlines
• Ensure adherence to high-quality standards and industry best practices established at Linedata

Skills Required

• 2-5 years of relevant work experience in Financial Risk Management (Markets and Credit Risk)
• Strong foundation in Mathematics and Statistics used in Financial Modelling
• Good understanding of Fixed Income asset classes including CLO, CMBS and RMBS
• Should be able to demonstrate high level of quantitative and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills to communicate the risk analysis outcomes in simple language to clients/portfolio-managers located in New York, HK and London
• Ability to work individually and with other financial engineers in a collaborative manner

Advantageous Skills

• Knowledge of third-party databases such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, etc.
• Knowledge of MS Excel, VBA macros, MS PowerPoint

Academic Requirements

• MBA from a Tier-1 college with BE/Statistics or equivalent education
• Any level of CFA or FRM will have preference