Senior Associate Strategy Risk and Operations Portfolio Construction Risk

As a Senior Associate you will be responsible for conducting advanced investment research building robust recommendations and developing increasingly complex investment strategies. As a part of the team you will also play an active role in driving initiatives that deliver on the groups broader objectives.

Team Description

The Strategy Risk & Operations (SRO) group oversees CMFs portfolio strategy operational and business strategy and portfolio construction and risk management. This includes responsibilities related to the departments strategy developing both annual and longterm investment plans portfolio construction and risk management program approach and managing CMFs overall operations. This role is focused on enhancing the CMF level portfolio construction and risk management.

Accountabilities:

• Contribute to the research and development of increasingly complex investment strategies.
• Work directly with Investment partners to develop test integrate and implement solutions for transformational initiatives
• Build and maintain models for portfolio construction investment analysis and risk management.
• Gather and synthesize information from a range of sources including publicly available / proprietary research internal subject matter experts and external specialists
• Participate in the strategic asset allocation process. This key role includes financial/statistical modeling portfolio analysis and portfolio construction work related to longterm asset allocation.
• Develop advanced quantitative skills to conduct research on different portfolio construction and risk modeling approaches.
• Stay abreast of the equity fixed income currency commodity markets and macroeconomic trends to contextualize marketdriven volatilities and short term/long term impacts on the portfolios.
• Assist in creating management and Board committee materials including memos and presentations.
• Identify gaps in current tools and processes under guidance and collaborate with senior team members to prioritize improvements and developments.

Qualifications :

• A graduate degree (Masters or higher) in a finance oriented discipline: Economics Finance MBA Mathematical Finance Financial Engineering
• 57 years of investment experience in a role such as topdown asset allocation frontoffice quantitative research or hedge fund portfolio management
• Knowledge of/experience with active investment management or asset allocation processes is a plus.
• Experience with the risk management of complex public market portfolios considered and asset.
• Strong quantitative research modelling and analytical skills with a solid understanding of econometrics / statistics.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills both within a team as well as across different groups in an organization.
• Experience with Tableau or similar visualization tools is considered an asset.
• Applied programming/scripting experience using Python (and associated stats libraries)
•  Strong verbal and written communication skills

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime