Aspect Capital is an award-winning specialist money manager at the forefront of research into financial markets. We apply systematic quantitative research techniques across a broad spectrum of financial products and markets to deliver returns to investors. We achieve this through a disciplined and consistent investment philosophy designed to generate performance even in declining markets.

We are looking for someone to join our Risk team to assist with and in time take on more responsibility on all facets of Aspect’s market and investment risks.

Your responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the role will initially be on the day-to-day risk monitoring of all of our portfolios, but you will also have significant exposure to Aspect’s trading strategies, research team and Investment Committee, and the opportunity to assist with the risk review of new trading strategies and system enhancements. Over time you could become involved in portfolio construction, strategy research and the investment processes.

You will also work on:

• Monitoring the integrity of Aspect’s market-facing business processes, including algorithmic execution
  
• Setting up risk monitoring tools and adapting pre-existing ones to meet the changing requirements of the firm’s research team, Investment Committee, investors and regulators
• Developing new risk metrics and systems to enhance Aspect’s suite of risk monitoring capabilities and coverage
• Presentation and explanation of risk analysis to other internal teams, including Compliance, Research and Investor Relations teams and senior management
  
• Understanding the usual behaviour of Aspect’s trading strategies and therefore being able to identify potential risks and carry out detailed analysis of them
• Assisting with the performance monitoring of trading strategies and portfolio performance analysis.

Your experience

• 2-5 years of experience, probably in a traditional risk role at an Asset Manager, or in a risk, or quant structuring role as part of a multi asset/cross product team
• Strong programming ability ideally in Python or MATLAB
• Familiarity with SQL databases and queries and reporting tools such as Microsoft’s PowerBI would be a bonus
• A good understanding of financial markets, ideally including futures and other exchange-traded derivative markets across multiple asset classes

If this sounds like an interesting role we would love to hear from you. No agencies please.