Risk Manager

The D. E. Shaw Group

$175K — $250K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher with at least five years in financial markets, including trading or portfolio management.
  • Minimum of three years experience in risk management.
  • Strong presentation skills and experience interacting with senior management on critical topics.
  • Proficient in statistics, financial math, and programmatic skills.
  • Adaptable to changing market conditions with creative analysis capabilities.
  • Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently on complex projects.
  • Buy-side experience preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze performance, exposure, and risk while conducting external reporting.
  • Act as a risk liaison for investing groups and lead detailed analyses across multiple strategies.

Benefits

  • Medical and prescription drug coverage.
  • 401(k) contribution matching.
  • Wellness reimbursement.
  • Family building benefits.
  • Charitable gift match program.
Full Job Description
What you'll do day-to-day

  • Dynamically analyze performance, exposure, and risk, and conduct external reporting.
  • Serve as a risk liaison to our investing groups and independently lead in-depth analysis across multiple strategies.


What we're looking for

  • A bachelor's degree or higher and at least five years of financial markets experience, including trading or portfolio management, and three or more years in risk management.
  • Significant experience presenting to and interacting with senior management on financial and business-critical topics, with an aptitude for written communications and presenting complex data visualizations.
  • An analytical aptitude, a working knowledge of statistics and financial math, and programmatic skills.
  • An alertness and responsiveness to changing market conditions, and creativity in analyzing market environments.
  • The ability to maintain good judgment while balancing competing priorities, with the skill to work independently to map out complex projects and source potential solutions.
  • Buy-side experience is preferred.
  • The expected annual base salary for this position is $175,000 to $250,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.


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