Risk Analyst

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

Department: Risk Investment Compliance

Contract type: Permanent

Location: TBD

Starting date: ASAP

FundRock Management Company S.A. (Apex group) is a leading third-party Management Company providing services to EU domiciled collective investment schemes in accordance with Luxembourg and Irish regulations. To sustain the growing activity we are looking for a motivated (Senior) Risk Analyst to support operational day-to-day activity of the Risk and Investment Compliance Team based in Luxemburg. Working with liquid investment funds, the (Senior) Risk Analyst will be responsible for overall data management, estimation and monitoring of miscellaneous risk metrics, as well as assisting Risk and Compliance departmets with ad-hoc queries.

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;
  • Provide support to the Investment Compliance team: exceptions management and investigation, eligibility / transferability analysis.
• 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
  • 2/4 years of experience in risk analytics domain;
  • Experience with data quality checks and data manipulation in relation to financial assets.
• Personal:
  • Ability to work within a team as well as on own initiative ;
  • Strong organizational skills and detail orientation;
  • Ability to conduct complex analysis and present data in a meaningful way;
  • Strong quantitative orientation and analytical skills;
  • Good communication skills, ability to interact with finance professionals;
  • Highly motivated and fast learning individual.