Position Description

Data Specialist Risk Management
Location Geneva
Job Code 10299
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Controls and Supervision:

Risk AM

  • Oversee daily consolidated Alternative Investment (AI) risk and performance analysis, including monitoring, controlling, reporting, and managing guideline excesses/breaches across FoHFs, UCITS managed accounts, and other alternative strategies. Define and implement corrective actions as necessary.
  • Actively engage in early warning systems, headline risk assessment, and crisis scenario management related to hedge fund single managers.
  • Participate in the development, update, and enhancement of the AM risk framework, including risk profiles, policies, and procedures.
  • Conduct investment process control analysis and reporting, ensuring compliance with product-specific risk frameworks (investment objectives, guidelines, and limits). Monitor pre- and post-trade adherence, implementing corrective actions when needed.
  • Perform fund and portfolio-level risk analysis, including liquidity forecasting, counterparty analysis, and market data monitoring.
  • Generate key risk indicators (market risk, liquidity risk, counterparty risk, investment compliance, due diligence activity, sustainability, valuation risk, and new product activity).
  • Prepare the Monthly AI Risk Report, covering performance reviews, tracking error, leverage, back-testing, concentration risk, operational due diligence, and legal risk.
  • Provide periodic reports to Senior Management.
  • Support the onboarding of funds onto the UCITS managed account platform.
  • Liaise with external UCITS managed account managers on eligibility, suitability, and compliance issues.
  • Develop tactical IT tools for portfolio risk monitoring.
  • Oversee outsourcing functions to service providers, ensuring compliance with internal and regulatory requirements.
  • Prepare and track regulatory reports and follow up on RFP requests.
  • Assist in UBP AM's operational risk assessment and reporting, working closely with other departments.

Risk TT

  • Monitor, control, and report market risk, including daily position risk analysis, VaR/RAPM, stop-loss monitoring, stress scenario testing, and back-testing. Administer market risk limits and manage excesses.
  • Conduct daily intraday position risk analysis and stop-loss risk monitoring for nostro books.
  • Actively engage in early warning and crisis scenario management.
  • Ensure P&L integrity and accuracy.
  • Conduct independent pricing model verification, validation, and evaluation of complex and illiquid products in nostros.
  • Ensuring daily consolidated monitoring, controlling, reporting and handling of limit excess of T&T counterparty, settlement and monthly Groupwide country risk limit exposure; intra day counterparty / settlement risk analysis.

 

Education:
Bachelor Degree
Technical skills:
Years of experience:
+10 : senior
Exper. in financial sector:
Optional
Experience required:
Minimum 10 years’ experience in the financial services industry, preferably as a business analyst, with at least 3 years in a similar risk management role.
Local resident (Swiss):
Mandatory
Language 1:
English
Level 1:
Fluent
Language 2:
Level 2:
Language 3:
Level 3:
Personal skills:
  • Deep understanding of Compliance, Asset Management, T&T, and Regulatory Risk processes.
  • Strong expertise in management operational processes.
  • Excellent communication and project coordination skills.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Adherence to the company’s values: Dedication, Conviction, Agility and Responsibility
  • Compliance with regulations and internal directives
  • Challenges:
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