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Prudential Financial

Sells life insurance, annuities and investments

Investment Risk Director

Risk ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNewark, NJ, USA$170k - $180k

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of experience in investment risk or portfolio analytics, with direct exposure to portfolio construction, positioning, and risk management.
  • A bachelor's degree, preferably with concentrations in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Business, Data Analytics, or Engineering.
  • Competence with the statistical, quantitative, and technical aspects of fixed income markets.
  • Experience with at least three relevant fixed income asset classes, such as interest rate products, futures, foreign exchange derivatives, government debt, investment-grade corporates, high yield, bank loans, emerging markets, structured products, and private credit.
  • Extensive experience with Microsoft Excel, Python, SQL, and other data analysis or modeling tools, including the ability to work effectively with large datasets.
  • Professional communication skills, including listening, verbal, and written abilities.
  • Interpersonal skills and experience interacting with senior management, investment professionals, and clients.
  • Organizational and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple competing priorities within defined timelines, independently and in a team setting.

Responsibilities

  • Provide independent support for all aspects of risk management, including daily oversight of portfolio risk positioning, engaging portfolio managers to address risk issues, reviewing and signing off on risk-related client guideline elements, risk budgeting, addressing client inquiries, and responding to ad hoc internal and external risk-analysis requests.
  • Attend and participate in internal portfolio management and strategy review meetings to represent risk management and stay current on market developments, sector views, and trading strategies.
  • Analyze risk drivers, performance attribution, scenario analysis, and portfolio construction.
  • Conduct asset allocation and risk optimization analysis to support product development initiatives.
  • Review risk-related elements of client guidelines to identify constraints affecting portfolio construction, internal alpha targets, and risk budgets, and coordinate with client advisors to negotiate acceptable resolutions.
  • Partner with Quantitative Modeling and Strategies and the systems group to design, test, implement, and document enhancements to proprietary internal risk analytics and systems, and communicate proposed changes' impact on portfolio risk to affected trading desks.
  • Coordinate with Investment Risk and Quantitative Modeling and Strategies associates to prepare responses to due diligence questionnaires, requests for proposals, and ad hoc client and prospect inquiries about the Investment Risk Management Framework.
  • Support client and portfolio onboarding and ongoing account maintenance, coordinating as needed with Client Advisors, Client Onboarding, Compliance, Portfolio Analysts, and Portfolio Managers.
  • Meet with clients and prospective clients to present the internal risk management framework and answer questions about PGIM Credit's risk management philosophy.
  • Prepare documentation and presentation materials for internal and client use explaining the proprietary risk framework and analytics.

Desired Qualifications

  • Buy-side fixed income experience working directly with portfolios is strongly preferred.
  • A master's degree, CFA, or other graduate-level credential, or progress toward one.

About the Company

Prudential Financial

Sells life insurance, annuities and investments

Prudential Financial sells life insurance, annuities and retirement plans to individuals and employers in the United States and Japan, and it invests money for institutional investors through PGIM, its asset management arm. PGIM brings together specialist firms, including stock picker Jennison Associates and separate units for bonds, quantitative strategies, real estate and private credit. Prudential earns insurance premiums, collects investment returns on the premiums it holds until claims and payouts come due, and charges fees on the assets PGIM manages. The company was founded in 1875 to sell burial insurance and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Newark, NJ
Founded
1875

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