Financial Markets Risk Manager Lead, Capital Partners

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Join us as a Financial Markets Risk Manager Lead, Capital Partners Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is currently seeking a Financial Markets Risk Manager Lead, for BBH’s Capital Partners business to join our Enterprise Risk Management team and engage with senior management on risk. The ideal candidate will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, monitoring and mitigating risks associated with client fixed income and equity portfolios.

This role requires a strong understanding of private credit, structured credit, interest rate products, fixed income, and equity portfolios, and buy-side financial risk management experience. This person will collaborate closely with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Research Analysts, Relationship Managers, Compliance, the Office of the General Counsel, and Enterprise Risk Management.

• Developing and implementing portfolio-level risk frameworks and models
• Analyzing portfolios and their holdings to identify potential market and liquidity risks at the single name and portfolio level e.g. concentration, volatility, tracking error, betas, etc.
• Understanding data, including being able to standardize data across Capital Partners for consistency, centralization and transparent risk analysis
• Utilizing Python, Business Intelligence tool(s), Intex and SQL to create and analyze risk analytics
• Conducting stress testing analysis
• Creating and maintaining key risk indicators and risk thresholds e.g., VaR analysis
• Monitoring macro market trends
• Assisting in modeling difficult-to-value securities e.g., fair value assets
• Participating in new product initiatives and setting up analytical risk management oversight
• Working with large datasets to develop complex risk analysis, and identifying essential insights and key takeaways for senior management
• Assessing complex problems, identifying patterns, and developing data driven solutions
• Engaging, communicating, and collaborating effectively with portfolio managers, traders, institutional client group and technology partners across Equity and Fixed income teams
• Developing and presenting risk metrics to Senior Management with recommendations and outcomes
• Management of junior team members

• 9+ of relevant financial risk or control experience at a buy-side institution (e.g., asset manager, hedge fund, pension, insurance asset management platform), including in structured credit
• Bachelor’s degree required in finance, math, risk management or business analytics
• Experience managing portfolio level risk across a wide array of financial products required (e.g., ABS, CMBS, CLO, BDC, multi-family debt, leverage loans, high yield bonds, preferred equities and equities)
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, Bloomberg, and Excel required
• Strong knowledge of and prior work experience in market risk analytics (VaR, ES, stress tests, hit rate, skew, beta, correlations, etc.)
• Experience with presenting to senior management teams
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience as a people manager overseeing junior team members preferred

Salary Range 150k-200k base salary + annual bonus target BBH and its affiliates' compensation program includes base salary, discretionary bonuses, and profit-sharing. The anticipated base salary range(s) shown above are only for the indicated location(s) and may differ in other locations due to cost of living and labor considerations. Base salaries may vary based on factors such as skill, experience and qualification for the role.

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