Investment Analyst - Risk

Procom; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector is seeking an Investment Analyst - Risk in Toronto, ON. The role involves updating PowerBI dashboards, conducting data research, and proposing enhancements to risk management visuals. Applicants should have a degree in finance/related fields with programming exposure. A hybrid work model is offered with an immediate start for a 6-month contract.

Qualifications

• Degree (bachelor or graduate) with corporate finance and investments coursework.
• Experience with relational databases and programming (Python, R, etc.).
• Ability to analyze aggregated data and detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Update PowerBI dashboards and improve data structures.
• Conduct research for risk management visuals.
• Document available data sources and design dashboards.

Skills

Detail oriented

Mathematical skills

Organizational skills

Programming

Education

Degree in Corporate Finance or Investments

Tools

Python

Excel

Job description

Investment Analyst - Risk On behalf of our client in the Financial Services Sector, PROCOM is looking for an Investment Analyst - Risk. Investment Analyst - Risk - Job Description

• Update existing PowerBI dashboards by independently running existing Python code, correcting data entry errors from templates previously filled in by the team and improving the code and existing database structure, if needed
• Conduct research and propose visuals to better capture risks management features related to the evolution of the portfolios covered
• With supervision by senior staff, responsible for the timely completion of high quality, well documented internal data research and reports prototyping that makes appropriate use of technology
• Interact with business owners to document available data sources and be involved in the process of designing relevant dashboards and reports
• Interface with internal specialists or developers and contribute to technical decisions
• Responsible for completion of an acceptable volume of work and for the communication of status of personal work plans and tasks required to design and develop assigned portion of projects
• Other duties as required
• Understand and extract relevant data from valuations Excel and pdf files (cash flows, macro drivers, terminal values and multiples, discount rates, equity beta, debt equity ratios, list of peers, peers' multiples, etc.)
• Research and propose portfolio and deal statistics and corresponding visuals use cases
• Provide feedback on how the existing databases can accommodate adding new deals and whether anything else of relevance is available that was not already planned for
• Run existing Python code to update data for internal dashboards, improve code and existing database structure if needed

Investment Analyst - Risk - Mandatory Skills

• A degree (bachelor or graduate) with at least one Corporate Finance and one Investments course (CFA Level II or business exposure to privates’ valuation process are considered equivalent)
• Previous experience with relational databases and unstructured data as well as basic programming (any one of VBA, Python, R, Java, C#, Matlab, SQL, etc. or a course in Statistics or Econometrics are considered equivalent)
• Ability to understand how data is aggregated at portfolio level as well as non-linear attribution of valuation changes
• Ability to detect relevant deal information and ask for directions when the concepts used are not within a pre-defined list or in the initial mandate
• Detail oriented, methodic, well organized, and solid mathematical skills are a must

Investment Analyst - Risk - Assignment Start Date ASAP – 6months to start Investment Analyst - Risk - Assignment Location Toronto, ON – Work Hybrid