Summary:
The Investment Solutions Group delivers advanced technological solutions to traders, portfolio managers, and cross functional teams including Risk Management and Finance.
Reporting to the Senior Director, Investment Risk \& Analytics Solutions, the Director, Risk Valuations will be leading projects and operations on both internal and external valuation engines, compliance, risk and reporting solutions across Finance, Risk and Investment Management functions.
What you will do:
- Lead the Risk Valuation Technology team (business analysts and developers) by example and demonstrating Core Values on a consistent basis
- Leveraging your expertise in risk, valuation and technology, collaborate with Finance, and Risk business partners to drive vision and achieve goals on the technology underpinning the operations of the business teams.
- Accountable for the Risk Valuation technology platform including solution prioritization, design and delivery involving the pricing and valuation across a comprehensive set of asset classes (Equity, Fixed Income, Credit, Derivatives, FX, OTC products etc.)
- Act as the Product Owner and deploying team members in developing and realizing the product vision (develop roadmaps, manage scope, define minimal viable products, prioritize backlog, create stories to incorporate user and technical feedback etc.)
- Develops and maintains strong business partnerships, including anticipating their future technology needs, joint business planning, support in defining strategic objectives and results with a focus on breaking down those bigger goals into quarterly targets for platform teams. This includes identifying and measuring business value, and providing ongoing communications related to platform/service suite goals.
- Collaborate closely with the broader teams on cross functional strategic goals on the investment platform.
- Manages relationships with several VP/Sr Director/Directors clients across Investment Finance, Investment Risk \& Investment Management to ensure department vision and delivery are aligned with business objectives.
- Work closely with clients to make effective strategic decisions on portfolio level work/projects, as the outcome of these decisions has widespread impact- Multiple angles and potential outcomes must be considered/evaluated
Who you are:
- 10 years of experience within Capital Markets (Banks, Asset Management Firms, Vendors) in risk measurement, reporting, valuation, statistical analysis and quantitative work
- 5 years' experience in leading diverse technologies and a variety of technical teams including, software development, Infrastructure Engineering, platform management
- A strong sense of customer focus with implementing customer support strategies in a multiple platforms/services environment
- Breadth and depth of Investment Product knowledge including portfolio theory, investment strategies and pricing theories
- Comprehensive Knowledge of valuation models, risk models, finance theory
- Comprehensive understanding of system development life cycle, techniques and tools
- Comprehensive understanding of front-, middle- and back-office processes and workflows
- Have experience balancing time constraints and analysis requirements to make good decisions
- Excellent collaboration and relationship management skills, including the ability to influence and strengthen relationships across the enterprise, with senior investment leaders, divisional executives, internal stakeholders, and service providers.
- Experience in playing multiple hands on and leadership roles throughout career (Solution Visioning, Analysis, Solution Design, sizing, building/implementing, QA, Prod Promotions, Production Support)
- Experience in building teams as well as implementing Agile Scrum development environment
- Degree in Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics or Computer Science; CFA or FRM designation a plus
