
Description
Waystone leads the way in specialist services for the asset management industry. Partnering institutional investors, investment funds and asset managers, Waystone builds, supports and protects investment structures and strategies worldwide. With over 20 years' experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone's European Fund Solutions arm is now serving assets under management more than EUR 200bln.
Waystone provides its clients with guidance and tools to allow them to focus on managing their investment goals with confidence. Job Description Waystone is looking for a junior associate / associate / senior associate level risk manager to join the company's investment risk management desk in Luxembourg for the monitoring of AIF portfolios investing in real assets (real estate, private equity, project finance) and credit instruments.
Your main duties and responsibilities
- Monitoring of portfolio risks
- Monitoring of portfolio investment risks.
- Investment restrictions controls (regulatory and/or investment policy related).
- Monitoring of leverage AIFMD and understanding of its drivers.
- Assessing and monitoring the liquidity profile of each portfolio.
- Understanding of the different portfolio strategies and their implementation through the different instruments employed.
- Identify key risk drivers for the different investment products and strategies and to define appropriate stress testing and monitoring methodologies.
- To follow up on client requests or related internal queries
- Compile meaningful risk reporting and timely escalate critical observations.
- Set-up of new client portfolios
- To assess investment strategies and identify the relevant instruments/investments.
- To assess risk profiles and propose relevant risk monitoring methodologies and portfolio stress tests.
- To ensure correct mapping of the portfolio instruments.
- To liaise internally with other departments and externally with clients, to set up the production of investment risk monitoring.
- To ensure the smooth start-up of daily and monthly reporting processes.
- Other tasks Assist actively with the implementation of risk framework enhancements and systems changes. Actively participate in knowledge transfer within the organisation.
Your Profile:
- Education University degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Finance or Business Administration.
- Any advanced degree would be considered as an advantage but is not required.
- Values & Qualities We require a strong work ethic and collegial/team attitude.
- You are a self-motivated problem solver with the ability to adapt to a continuously changing global environment.
- Ability to learn and evolve your skills.
- You can provide constructive feedback to management as well as to peers.
- Experience 1-3 years of relevant professional work experience, depending on seniority level
- Familiarity with Luxembourg's fund industry and portfolio risk oversight framework for alternative investment funds.
- Understanding, analyzing, risk monitoring and reporting of: Real estate investments Private debt / direct lending operations Syndicated loans Multi-credit portfolios
- Experience with the valuation of any or all the above asset classes will be considered as a strong advantage.
- Fluent in English with very good writing and verbal communication skills. Any other language would be considered an asset.
- Experience in Python and/or VBA would be considered as a strong advantage. Within our growi..