Risk Associate, Barings
3 days a week in office
International investment management firm
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International investment management firm
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver the best investment experience for our clients through exceptional service and performance.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will likely have finance or business background, with a working knowledge of fund management, fund risk and financial markets
- An understanding of Irish and European fund risk and operational risk regulatory requirements would be beneficial
- They ideal candidate needs to regularly demonstrate strong written communication and report writing skills, with the ability to edit and enhance documents regarding fund risk oversight regulatory requirements
- The candidate will be an organised individual, who is comfortable working on projects alone with limited supervision, is familiar with collating data in Excel, and compiling presentations in Powerpoint
- In addition, the candidate will have strong verbal communication skills, and be capable of building effective relationships with the Global risk teams, support areas, and the wider Irish office
- Educated to degree level in a finance or business discipline, with potentially a few years experience in asset management, credit, or corporate finance environments
- Strong attention to detail and data accuracy
- Analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to gather, analyse, organize and report information, results and findings in a risk orientated manner
- Highly motivated and organized with demonstrated ability to manage and organise conflicting priorities
- Ability to work independently and autonomously, whilst within a team environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and a reliable team player who can interact well with a wide range of people
- Excellent communicator, written and verbal
- Some experience working in a similar role (risk management/risk reporting) within the Investment Management industry would be advantageous
What the job involves
- Position Title: Risk Associate
- Business Title: Associate
- Department: Investment Risk
- Reports to: Head of Risk - Ireland
- The Risk Associate is required to provide ongoing support to the firm’s Investment Risk Management Framework, covering all funds and asset classes within Barings International Fund Managers Ireland Ltd (BIFMI)
- Reporting to the Head of Risk Ireland, and into the boarder Barings’ Enterprise Risk Management team
- The day-to-day works will primarily be assisting the Head of Risk Ireland on Fund Risk works
- There will also be the opportunity to assist the Operational Risk Designated Person in Ireland, on Operational Risk works for BIFMI
- The individual will undertake regular risk monitoring and oversight assessments of BIFMI Ireland & BFM UK Funds
- Providing ongoing support to the Head of Risk Ireland and the firm’s risk team in their understanding of risk related matters
- You'll be working with the Head of Risk Ireland and risk managers to help ensure that the investment risks are fully understood and appropriately monitored and reported
- Carrying out risk analysis and reporting across the range of asset classes managed by Barings, both public and private funds. Monitoring fund redemptions, fund liquidity fund stress testing, and watch list assets monitoring
- Ensuring risk management requirements of regulated funds are monitored across all relevant funds
- Preparing regular updates on risk matters to the Head of Risk Ireland, wider risk team members, and submission of risk filings to the Central Bank of Ireland
- Ensuring appropriate risk oversight for delegates and material outsourced service providers
- Production of weekly/monthly/quarterly risk management reporting for a range of internal and external audiences from both a regulatory requirement and wider risk framework perspective
- Training on relevant risk tools, risk analytics databases, support applications and services that interface with third-party enterprise-wide risk management products
Our take
With a history dating back more than 260 years, Investment Management Group Barings was originally Britain’s oldest merchant bank and set up an asset management division in the 1950s. By the mid-90s, its original banking division collapsed due to scandals concerning its executives and its investment management department took center stage. Through a series of acquisitions, Baring Asset Management became Barings in 2016, alongside the now-merged Cornerstone Real Estate Advisors, Wood Creek, and Babson Capital Management.
With a portfolio worth more than $347 billion, Barings has come full circle over its two-and-a-half-century life. During the 2010s, its acquisitions and growth saw it evolve into a global leader, with subsidiaries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Focusing on private and public equity, real estate, private credit, capital, and insurance solutions, Barings has run with the fast-moving shifts in the investment sector to fund electric vehicle projects, fintech platforms, and digital companies to great success.
In 2023, Barings swooped in to save bankrupt real estate deals in Arizona and secured leading bank tenants Santander and HSBC at its state-of-the-art office development in Manchester, UK. In 2024 it led a funding round of Morgan Stanley's World 50, exemplifying its influence on the world's top investment banks. With many arms to its company, Barings can weather setbacks as a whole, whether that be the collapse of Barings-backed internet provider GigaMonster or restructuring the ailing cinema chain Vue.
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0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Third Ward, Charlotte, NC
Leadership
Mike Freno
(CEO, not founder)Previously the Head of Global Markets at Barings, Research Analyst at M&M Partners LLC, and Manager at PwC.
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