Buy-Side Pre-sales Engineer (Risk), Enterprise Sales, Financial Solutions

Overview

In this role you drive risk-focused solutions for buy-side clients, connecting risk analytics capabilities to client workflows. You work closely with Enterprise Sales to understand customer needs, design tailored demonstrations, and support RFPs/POCs. You will articulate how Bloomberg risk tools fit across the investment lifecycle and collaborate with product, implementation, and technology teams. This is an opportunity to shape risk-enabled client engagements at scale in a global, data-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Sales to understand customer operating needs and articulate Bloomberg’s risk proposition for workflows
• Lead discovery meetings to capture strategic objectives and deliver compelling POCs and demonstrations
• Communicate solution fit in a consultative way, highlighting value-driven propositions
• Coordinate with Sales, Product, and Legal & Compliance to prepare timely RFP/RFI responses
• Maintain deep knowledge of risk products and market trends, including buy-side operating models
• Partner with Implementation, Enterprise Technology, and Product on solution design and target operating models for complex sales
• Ensure smooth information handoff from sales to implementation teams

Key requirements

• Deep understanding of buy-side investment workflows and risk/valuation/middle-office requirements
• Knowledge of Bloomberg PORT and MARS solutions or equivalent
• 4+ years in a client-facing role (pre-sales, project management, specialist relationship management or solutions architect)
• Knowledge of enterprise risk frameworks and regulatory requirements (UCITS/AIFMD for asset managers; Solvency II/IORP II for asset owners)
• Ability to explain complex financial and technical concepts to quantitative practitioners and senior decision-makers
• Experience with derivatives asset class and Front-to-Back trade Lifecycle in buy-side context

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Consultative mindset and strong stakeholder management
• Collaborative team player who can work across Sales, Product, and Implementation
• Bloomberg PORT and MARS knowledge
• Understanding of APIs to support Enterprise workflows (desirable)
• Experience with risk analytics and stress testing concepts

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