Risk Analyst

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with the Head of Risk Ireland and Group Risk teams to support an effective fund risk management system built on strong governance, policies, oversight, and controls.
• Assist in identifying and reviewing the investment risk characteristics of all managed products, regularly overseeing delegates’ assessments of current risk levels against established limits.
• Engage proactively as the fund risk lead within various internal committees and provide valuable input into group-wide decision-making processes.
• Conduct ongoing reviews of product risk characteristics such as liquidity and market risk, monitoring tolerances set by the organisation to ensure compliance with risk profiles.
• Act as the primary contact for day-to-day fund risk management activities, interacting with broader teams including Investments, Product Development, and business units.
• Offer guidance, advice, and support across the business to help identify, assess, and manage fund risks while aspiring to become the technical expert in UCITS and AIFMD regulations.
• Ensure periodic stress tests and comprehensive risk analyses are conducted to measure, manage, and monitor risks associated with investment positions including sustainability risks.
• Work closely with group risk functions to integrate or enhance existing processes as part of the overall risk management framework for new products or change initiatives.
• Manage onboarding of new products by assessing asset eligibility criteria, interpreting regulatory requirements, and finalising supplemental risk documentation such as RMPs.
• Maintain, develop, receive, and review reports on fund/investment risk issues including significant movements in risk profiles or exposures across asset classes.

What you bring:

• Experience working across fund risk or investments within an asset manager or fund management company is essential for this position.
• Strong numerical qualifications coupled with advanced MS Office skills; knowledge of SQL Server, Python, Power-BI is highly desirable.