Investment Risk Analyst

Overview

In this role you will support the GAIA Risk team in monitoring risk, performance and data integrity for the Schroder GAIA hedge fund platform. You’ll work with cross-functional stakeholders to enhance risk analytics and reporting. You will develop your expertise in investment risk through hands-on data work, model development and interaction with external fund managers. This is a great chance to contribute to a liquid alternatives platform at a long-standing global asset manager.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance daily risk and performance data processes for the GAIA platform
• Develop and maintain risk and performance reports to support risk assessment
• Manage, analyse and interpret investment data from internal and external sources using Snowflake, Python and Alteryx
• Contribute to development of risk models, systems and analytical solutions
• Participate in GAIA Risk Forum and Risk & Performance Committee
• Build knowledge of investment risk and measurements across portfolio types
• Support relationships with external risk/investment system providers (e.g., BRS, MSCI, Bloomberg)
• Over time assume risk oversight ownership of specific GAIA strategies
• Collaborate with external fund managers to assess portfolios and identify key risk drivers
• Support GAIA Manager Research and Liquid Alternatives with portfolio modelling, risk analysis and performance reviews
• Engage with current and prospective external managers on risk and performance discussions

Key requirements

• Strong data management, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with Snowflake or another SQL database, and Python or Alteryx
• Basic understanding of investment management, financial instruments and markets
• Keen interest in learning investment risk across diverse strategies and assets
• University degree in finance, economics, banking, mathematics, data science or related subject
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
• Progress towards or interest in FRM, CFA or CAIA (nice to have)
• Experience with risk systems (MSCI RiskMetrics or Aladdin) and data visualization tools (Tableau) (nice to have)
• Experience with market data tools (Factset, Refinitiv, Bloomberg) and hedge fund/alt investments knowledge (nice to have)

• Analytical and curious approach to complex data
• Clear communication for diverse audiences
• Detail-oriented with focus on data quality
• Snowflake
• SQL
• Python

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