Senior Analyst, Investment Risk Analytics - Toronto, Canada - Alberta Investment Management Corporation

Description

DEPARTMENT:

Investment Risk Analytics

CLOSING DATE:

March 18, 2024

Opportunity

Work from Edmonton, Calgary, or Toronto

As part of the Risk Management Group working within the Quantitative Analytics & Risk Reporting (QAR) team, you will focus on enabling investment risk capabilities (including multiple risk models, decomposition, measurement, and analysis) and delivering valuable risk insights. Leveraging your financial and risk knowledge, coupled with strong technical and quantitative capability, you will influence and enable a consistent view for all risk managers in estimating the overall market, credit and liquidity risk, and exposure across all asset classes to enable a best-in-class investment risk management capability.

As the Senior Analyst, you will work to deliver a holistic and consistent view of risks across all asset classes enabling AIMCo to integrate risk management with portfolio management through quantitative approaches within a maturing controls environment. You will champion and shape the full end-to-end ability to enable our risk managers and investment teams by creating practical solutions for investment professionals. This includes requirements, methodology definition, implementation, design, testing, and delivery. You will have the chance to collaborate with risk managers, portfolio managers, and other stakeholders within and outside of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Taking a lead role within a team environment to generate risk metrics and advanced analytics that provides risk insights to assist with risk management and business decision making
• Validating and interpreting risk measurements on a regular basis and provide commentary and insights on changes in portfolios, risk profiles and markets
• Develop visualization and risk reports required for the total fund, clients, asset classes and products
• Provide analytical support to various stakeholders as required
• Collaborating with Business Technology and external vendors to bring continued improvements and innovation to risk systems and processes

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor's degree in relevant quantitative field (ex: Financial Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Business/Finance, Economics, Computer Science); graduate degree is an asset
• 3+ years of experience working in financial industry in capacities of risk management, reporting/analytics, and quantitative modeling; candidates with less experience is also welcomed to apply and can be considered at analyst level
• Strong understanding of financial products including derivatives, and the measurement of their risks (market, credit, liquidity)
• Advanced working knowledge in Python programing, SQL, Excel (VBA), and other analytical tools
• Experience with data visualization and reporting through PowerBI is an asset
• Professional designation (ex: CFA, FRM, PRM) is an asset
• Demonstrating a strong commitment to AIMCo's core values of excellence, transparency, humility, integrity, and collaboration, and inspiring the same in others.

Success Measures

As the successful Senior Analyst, Quantitative Analytics & Reporting, you will play a key role in defining, developing, evaluating and producing, the methodologies, measures, monitoring and reporting of investment risk under a consistent approach for all investments under the total fund and for all AIMCo Clients.

Next Steps

We are excited to meet you. Please submit your resume or CV to be considered for this opportunity. Applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis and we will be in touch with any questions.

Final candidates will be asked to undergo a security screening, which includes a credit bureau and a criminal record investigation, the results of which must be acceptable to AIMCo.

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Just like our investments, our international team is stronger when we are diversified. At AIMCo, we draw upon the differences in who we are, where we come from, and the way we think to foster sophisticated solutions for Albertans. Doing business the right way means building an equitable organization inclusive of all races, genders, ages, abilities, religions, neurodiversity, identities, and lived experiences. Simply put, when you can show up as your authentic self every day, you and your team can truly thrive - all in service of our clients and their beneficiaries.