Position Title: Risk Manager
Contract: Permanent Full-Time
Reports To: Chief Compliance Officer
About Skerryvore
Skerryvore Asset Management (Skerryvore) is based in Edinburgh and is an independent investment partnership established in 2019 with BennBridge, an investment firm based in London. Skerryvore is an Appointed Representative of BennBridge.
We are emerging markets specialists whose aim is to generate superior returns for our clients by focussing on the quality of the businesses in which we invest on their behalf. We believe in managing clients’ money as we would our own and aligning our interests with our clients. We currently manage US$1.2 billion in assets for our global client base across a range of fund vehicles and segregated client mandates.
Skerryvore is embarking on an exciting new phase in its evolution, and we are seeking to build our own operations capability in Edinburgh to support the business as we move forward.
Position Summary
We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Risk Manager to join our team in Edinburgh. This is an ideal opportunity for experienced candidates within the investment management sector. Working closely alongside Skerryvore’ s Chief Compliance Officer, you will be responsible for managing the daily pre-trade and post-trade investment and market risk monitoring activities and producing management information for relevant risk and governance forums. You will also have a key role in the firm’s enterprise risk framework, covering all aspects of risk such as prudential, regulatory, counterparty, credit, sustainability, and operational risk, and will participate in client and consultant due diligence events.
If you are someone who believes in being client focussed and would like to join a far-sighted and fair- minded investment firm, then please apply via email with your résumé and accompanying introduction letter to Karen.Lumsden@skerryvoream.com
Candidates must be resident and eligible to work in the UK.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We are committed to providing an inclusive and equitable environment for our people. From day one you will be encouraged to be yourself and supported to perform at your best.
Core Skills
- Good working knowledge of a variety of fund vehicle structures such as UCITS, Australian Unit Trusts, US Collective Investment Trusts, and US Limited Partnerships.
- Strong understanding of the key risk and performance metrics and monitoring parameters associated with equity related securities and experience presenting risk analytics to senior business stakeholders.
- Good working knowledge of fund/ client mandate on-boarding in relation to documentation review, investment compliance rule development and implementation and identification of key risk data requirements.
- Experienced in managing the pre and post trade investment and market monitoring processes and escalation and resolution of issues and investment limit breaches.
- Good experience of managing the investment risk framework (including sustainability risk), producing the investment risk analyses, and co-ordinating and chairing the Investment Risk Committee.
- Good understanding of and experience in the development and roll out of operational risk and control testing and the delivery of annual risk and control assessments.
- Good understanding of and experience managing new and ongoing vendor due diligence of critical third parties and reporting to the relevant governance forums.
- Experience of participating in client and consultant due diligence events • Good knowledge of ICARA and the ability to assist with the annual ICARA process.
Competencies
- Flexible, committed, and motivated. A team player with a “can do” attitude and aligned with the interests of the clients.
- A self-starter with a focus on using initiative, Motivated by process improvement and high-quality output.
- A confident effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills. Effective written communication skills.
- Strong organisational skills and a high level of attention to detail. Can deal with multiple priorities efficiently and effectively.
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills with ability to resolve complex risk queries.
- Effective project management skills.
- Proficient user of Bloomberg and a detailed understanding of ex-ante risk factor models such as Barra and the interpretation and communication of ex-ante risk figures.
- Experience of coding investment guidelines in order management systems.
- Proficient at manipulating and interpreting ESG data sets.