Career Opportunity with Aurevium's Asset Management: Risk Manager

Aurevium's Asset Management is seeking a Risk Manager to join our Risk Management & Quantitative Research team.

The Risk team plays a pivotal role in the firm’s investment process, fostering a culture of effective risk management, performance attribution, and portfolio enhancement. Risk managers lead efforts to identify opportunities for improving risk management, investment behavior, and portfolio construction to help the firm achieve superior risk-adjusted performance. The mission is to safeguard the firm from improper exposure and ensure deliberate and efficient risk-taking. We are looking for someone with a creative mindset and practical problem-solving abilities who can take ideas from conception to successful execution.

Responsibilities

The Risk Manager will:

- Ensure that risk-taking at both the individual portfolio level and the firm level is efficient and deliberate. This includes:

  - Collaborating with portfolio managers to enhance portfolio construction for optimal risk-adjusted returns and setting appropriate risk guidelines and limits.

  - Actively managing the Firm’s risk exposures.

  - Participating in the capital allocation process to maximize risk-adjusted returns and profitability at both the business and firm levels.

  - Understanding equity and macro factors that influence portfolio risk, their role in alpha generation, and the constraints portfolio managers face (liquidity, concentration, etc.).

- Lead research initiatives to develop innovative risk management approaches, tools, and analytics, leveraging the collective knowledge of the platform to enhance performance and improve risk-adjusted returns.

- Enhance the Firm’s understanding of performance by developing intuitive and efficient frameworks for performance attribution and educating internal stakeholders on these frameworks.

Desirable Qualifications

We are seeking candidates with:

- 5+ years of experience as a risk manager or portfolio manager, specifically with a focus on hedged discretionary or systematic equity strategies.

- Strong knowledge of equity risk management, portfolio construction (multi-factor models, optimization techniques), and trading (slippage analysis).

- Experience with Greater China and Japan equity markets is a plus.

- Knowledge of quantitative finance and statistical programming tools, preferably SQL and Python.

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas to senior management and portfolio managers.

- Intellectual curiosity and the ability to manage special projects and ad-hoc tasks.

- A high-energy, proactive personality with a drive to ideate new opportunities, manage multiple tasks, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

- Strong interpersonal skills and “emotional intelligence” with the ability to build relationships both internally and externally.

- A commitment to the highest ethical standards and professionalism.

Aurevium's Career Opportunities

Aurevium offers substantial career opportunities:

- We uphold a workplace where performance and integrity go hand in hand.

- We are committed to personal and professional development.

- We expect and reward innovation and creativity.

- We foster long-term career growth.

- We measure success by the quality of work and the results achieved.