Director of Risk, Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income jobs in United States
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Schonfeld ยท 1 week ago

Director of Risk, Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
money$250K/yr - $300K/yr

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. The Director of Risk will be responsible for researching risk and portfolio construction questions, creating a risk framework, and liaising with technology and support teams to resolve operational issues.

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Responsibilities

Researching the risk and portfolio construction questions of the analysts and portfolio managers
Reporting to the global head of DMFI Risk and helping create a first-in-class Risk Framework for Macro Fixed Income multi-PM platform
Communicating the output of risk models to portfolio managers, investors, and firm management
Liaising with technology and support teams to help resolve daily production / operational issues and ensure data integrity / quality
Conducting investment research in various topics, including manager skill, portfolio optimization, liquidity, stress tests, margin usage, hedging and risk / pricing modelling
Investigating and integrating new datasets used by proprietary models and risk infrastructure

Qualification

Quantitative risk techniquesFixed Income Pricing modelsStatistical modelingPythonRMatlabExcelLarge dataset analysisCommunication skillsAttention to detailTeamwork

Required

A degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science or financial engineering
Experience with Fixed-Income RV strategies
Experience around Options and Fixed Income Pricing models
Experience in a PM- facing risk role
Experience working hands-on with quantitative risk techniques
Strong coding skills, familiarity with Python, R, Matlab, Excel and/or other scripting languages
Strong mathematical and/or statistical modeling
Comfortable with analysis of large datasets, high-level attention to detail

Preferred

A strong understanding and working knowledge of Basis

Benefits

Performance bonus
Competitive benefits package

Company

Schonfeld

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Founded in 1988, Schonfeld is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund with an investing footprint that spans five continents.
dateFounded in 1988
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
http://www.schonfeld.com/

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Ryan Tolkin
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
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Global Head of Equity Capital Markets
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