Senior Equity Risk Manager

Location: Baltimore, Maryland; hybrid schedule with four days per week onsite and up to one day per week from home

Base salary: $133,000–$227,000 annually for Maryland, Colorado, Washington, and remote workers.

Company

Global asset management organization providing equity, fixed income, and multi-asset investment solutions to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors.

What you will do

• Own ongoing risk oversight for assigned equity strategies and develop a detailed understanding of portfolio managers’ investment processes and positioning.
• Identify and communicate factor, security, sector, concentration, volatility, tracking error, Value at Risk, and other portfolio exposures.
• Design and perform historical, hypothetical, bespoke stress tests, and tail-risk analyses.
• Translate quantitative results into clear investment insights and constructive advice for investment leaders.
• Develop risk reports, dashboards, visualizations, and analytical tools using vendor and proprietary data.
• Partner with technology colleagues to improve risk systems, define requirements, test capabilities, and present findings to investment and client-facing stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and relevant experience, plus at least eight years of total relevant work experience.
• Asset management experience focused on equity market risk, buy-side risk management, equity investment strategies, portfolio construction, and global financial markets.
• Experience with quantitative risk evaluation methods, including volatility, tracking error, and Value at Risk.
• Programming and statistical analysis skills for data processing, computations, and visualizations.
• Experience with risk modelling and performance attribution systems such as MSCI BarraOne and RiskManager.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, data analysis, interpersonal, organizational, and professional judgement skills.

Nice to have

• Quantitative or scientific degree, such as quantitative finance, economics, statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, engineering, computer science, or physics.
• More than five years of direct equity risk management experience at a buy-side asset manager.
• Master’s degree or PhD, advanced Python or R capability, or CFA, FRM, or PRM certification progress.
• Experience working across regions within a global asset management organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative Equity Risk team within a global Investment Risk function with dedicated technology resources.
• Opportunities to work directly with portfolio managers and senior investment leaders.
• Annual bonus eligibility and retirement plan.
• Health and wellness benefits, paid time off, and volunteering days.
• Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits.

Hiring process

• FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.