AVP, Investments and Risk Data Analytics

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluates new investment strategies and ideas making recommendations to the Investment Risk Committee and Chief Risk Officer.

• Leads a team that uses advanced tools data and machine learning to solve problems create new ways of assessing risk and opportunity in the portfolio(s) and to enhance the analysis and understanding of risk adjusted returns.

• Works closely with Investments and other areas of the company including in close collaboration with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to ensure risk is considered in decisions and are aggregated.

• Leads a team that identifies assesses manages and reports on top and emerging risks in the investment portfolio.

• Conducts scenario analysis and stress testing to better inform decision making including portfolio valuation and analytics impairment and downgrade sensitivity analysis and portfolio performance analysis.

• Anticipates and assesses new risk concentrations and concerns. Identifies opportunities to optimize portfolio risk adjusted returns.

• Develops a suite of risk mitigation strategies to develop a view and determine a course of action.

• Responsible for rigorous model governance to maintain and ensure accuracy of any models used.

• Partners with data and technology to produce and report portfolio level descriptive risk statistics (analytics) and security level metrics to be used throughout Investments as the one version of the truth for all reporting market insights performance and risk measurement.

• Oversees associate management including performance management salary planning and administration training and development workflow and organization planning day-to-day management hiring and placement and disciplinary actions for direct and possibly indirect reports.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Vice President Chief Risk Officer - Investments. Manages a team of four risk analytics professionals.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate degree in risk finance accounting economics statistics mathematics or related subject area. Advanced quantitative degree highly desirable.

License/Certification/Designation: CFA FRM CQF preferred.

Experience: Typically 10 or more years of fixed income or equity trading portfolio management or risk experience.

Knowledge Abilities and Skills: Expertise with a broad range of fixed income equity derivatives and alternative investments. Broad market understanding a must. Demonstrated track record of leadership success and the ability to influence. Expert in advanced data analytics and programming. Skilled at critical thinking executive presence strong business judgment decisive collaborative with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Substantial aptitude for managing multiple and often unrelated high-pressure situations simultaneously. Proven knowledge of risk management practices. Deep technical know-how with timeseries analysis stochastic financial modeling advanced statistics and with analytical tools such as Aladdin Moodys KMV Bloomberg Python MatLab Databricks Tableau Power BI or equivalent.

Other criteria including leadership skills competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring managers leader and HR Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs including: medical/dental/vision life insurance short and long term disability coveragepaid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date nine paid holidays 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off 401(k) with company match company-paid pension plan business casual attire and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer click here.

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