Senior Emerging Markets Risk Manager
Role Overview
Reports to the Co-Heads of Fixed Income & Macro Risk and works with risk professionals, quantitative analysts, and portfolio management teams.
Provides risk oversight and analysis across Emerging Markets in Latin America, Asia, and CEEMEA, supporting the growth and risk management of the Fixed Income & Macro business.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Reports to the Co-Heads of Fixed Income & Macro Risk and works with risk professionals, quantitative analysts, and portfolio management teams.
Provides risk oversight and analysis across Emerging Markets in Latin America, Asia, and CEEMEA, supporting the growth and risk management of the Fixed Income & Macro business.
Key responsibilities
- Partner with Developed and Emerging Markets portfolio management teams to analyze portfolio risk across Latin America, Asia, and CEEMEA.
- Calibrate and manage risk guidelines for multiple portfolio teams in line with firm-wide risk appetite and regulatory requirements.
- Resolve measured-risk discrepancies with portfolio managers and address exposures outside policy guidelines.
- Analyze new and existing trades across rates, FX, sovereign and corporate credit, equities, and derivatives.
- Assess Emerging Markets business exposures, Value at Risk (VaR), and stress scenarios.
- Present business-level risk clearly to senior risk and management teams.
- Monitor risk events and their potential impact on positions; construct relevant Emerging Markets event scenarios.
- Assess and explain intraday and historical P&L drivers across portfolios.
- Develop analyses and reports for risk colleagues and portfolio managers.
- Contribute research on Emerging Markets risk policy, risk allocation, and portfolio guidelines.
Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in trading, sales, structuring, quantitative analysis, or market risk at a sell-side or buy-side institution.
- Deep Emerging Markets knowledge, with expertise in fixed income, rates, FX, and derivatives across Latin America, Asia, and CEEMEA.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across global offices and teams.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to present complex risk concepts to senior stakeholders.
- Hedge fund experience is strongly preferred.
Desirable skills
- Strong Python programming skills, or a computer science background with ability to learn Python, are desirable.
- An advanced academic background in a quantitative discipline, such as mathematics, engineering, physics, or finance, is desirable.
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