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.

Some of your key responsibilities include:  

• 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

Qualifications:

• 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

This role is based in our New York City location and is a hybrid role, with a minimum of three days per week in office.

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. BBH's total rewards package recognizes your contributions with more than just a paycheck—providing you with benefits that enhance your experience at BBH from long-term savings, healthcare, and income protection to professional development opportunities and time off, our programs support your overall well-being. 

We value diverse experiences. We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets. If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About BBH:

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us.

We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts. No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help. Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another. 

We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation.  As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long-term interests of our clients and our people. Our long-tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day-to day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers. Because we know, our success begins with yours.

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