Senior Associate, Total Fund Risk Analytics (12-month contract)

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Associate for their Total Fund Risk Analytics team. This role involves analyzing and reporting on investment risks, enhancing risk engineering tools, and collaborating with various divisions to improve governance and decision-making processes. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in investment risk analysis, data manipulation, and excellent communication skills. The company fosters a collaborative culture and offers a flexible hybrid work environment, making it an exciting opportunity for professionals looking to grow their careers while contributing to impactful financial decisions.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Professional growth opportunities

Flexible/hybrid work environment

Flexible Travel Program

Employee discount programs

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of investment risk experience in financial services is preferred.
• Broad understanding of asset classes and risk types including market and liquidity risk.
• Ability to attribute PNL or VaR/ETL metrics into risk factors is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct daily analysis and reporting of the fund’s asset mix and market risk measures.
• Develop and enhance risk engineering tools and Business Intelligence reporting suite.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to implement data and reporting enhancements.

Skills

Investment Risk Analysis

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

SQL

Python

VBA

PowerBI

Tableau

Education

Risk Management

Financial Mathematics

Data Science

Business/Finance

Tools

PowerBI

Tableau

Snowflake

Job description

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Senior Associate, Total Fund Risk Analytics (12-month contract)

Apply locations Toronto, Canada time type Full time posted on Posted 4 Days Ago job requisition id 6423

The opportunity

The Total Fund Risk Analytics team is responsible for reviewing, publishing, interpreting, and communicating OTPP’s risk profile and investment exposure at total fund level. The team’s key responsibilities include ensuring the accurate and timely production of OTPP’s asset mix, investment exposure, credit counterparty risk and liquidity risk measures and reports and provide data-driven insights. The team is also accountable for ensuring model, governance and report enhancements are implemented in an effective and controlled manner. The Senior Associate will work with Investment Division, Risk division, Finance division and EOD division to design and implement new limits, products, models and reports as required by Board, internal committee and external regulator bodies.

Who you'll work with

You will develop, and maintain relationships with stakeholders across the Investment, Risk, Finance and Enterprise Operation divisions while working in a collaborative culture.

What you'll do

• Conduct daily analysis, reporting and monitoring of the fund’s asset mix, investment exposure and market risk measures against board and trading limits and identify trends and insights that can be used to facilitate governance and investment decisions

• Develop and enhance in-house developed risk engineering tools and Business Intelligence reporting suite to facilitate deeper understanding of PnL and risk drivers through large data set, across a wide range of asset classes and products

• Utilize automation languages to improve control, reduce operational steps and risks and improve management metrics availability for the fund’s risk and exposure measurement and attribution practice

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to implement data, model and reporting enhancements with a focus on asset mix, investment exposure and sensitivities

• Provide independent consulting for new business and products from risk and exposure measurement aspect

• Support the maintenance of documentation, procedures and processes related to analytical and reporting needs

• Support and champion innovation, efficiency applicable to reports and daily processes

• Support internal and external governance committee and bodies with required data and analytics needs

What you'll need

• 1-3 years of investment risk related experience in the financial services/investment management industry; buy-side exposure is an asset

• Broad understanding of asset classes across public and private sectors, and risk stripes including market risk, liquidity risk and counterparty credit risk

• Ability to attribute PNL or VaR/ETL metrics into risk factors is strongly preferred

• Experience of risk, performance or exposure reporting using PowerBI, Tableau is a must. Experience with Snowflake is an asset.

• Proficient with SQL and ability to code independently in Python or VBA. Ability to manipulate and analyze large datasets.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels

• Relevant university degree (such as Risk Management, Financial Mathematics, Data Science, Business/Finance)

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What we’re offering

• Competitive compensation

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development

• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working

• Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year

• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring. We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, check out Life at Teachers'.

How to apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today! You may be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application.

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Functional Areas:

Finance

Requisition ID:

6423

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