Risk Analyst
Apex Group Ltd (UK Branch)
The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.
Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.
That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.
Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.
For our business, for clients, and for you
Key Responsibilities include:
- Risk & Investment Compliance:
- Provide comprehensive and high-quality risk measurement, quantitative analysis and reporting: Value-at-Risk, Stress-Testing & Liquidity;
- Risk modelling of financial instruments in MSCI Risk Metrics;
- Assist in miscellaneous risk-related tasks: support onboarding stream by mapping model portfolios, data collection for regulatory reports, securitization pre-trade check;
- Data Management:
- Ensure the completeness of portfolios received from Fund Adminstrators;
- Mapping of unrecognized positions into the database: checking financial instruments and issuers, classification of non standard financial instruments;
- Perform sanity checks of the database / portfolios loaded, collect and aggregate data, follow up with Fund administrator of pending items.
- General:
- Improve efficiency and effectiveness of operating processes;
- Support junior team members (for the senior profile).
Requirements / Qualifications:
- Education and Knowledge:
- Bachelor and / or a Master degree in Finance, Engineering, Economics or equivalents;
- Participating in CFA / FRM programs would be considered an advantage;
- Sound understanding of risk measurement concepts such as VaR, Sensitivity and Stress testing;
- Extensive knowledge of financial instruments and their pricing methodology (equities, bonds, derivatives, structured products);
- Knowledge of MSCI Risk Metrics, Bloomberg or other data providers would be considered an advantage;
- Knowledge of VBA would be considered an advantage.
- Working Experience
- Experience in risk analytics domain;
- Experience with data quality checks and data manipulation in relation to financial assets.
Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.