About the Client
The client is a leading global alternative asset management firm with investment and operational teams around the world. The firm invests across a broadly diversified set of strategies, including private equity, impact, credit, real estate, and market solutions. Its culture is driven by collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and a commitment to high-quality insights that support investors, portfolio companies, management teams, and communities.
The client is a leading global alternative asset management firm with investment and operational teams around the world. The firm invests across a broadly diversified set of strategies, including private equity, impact, credit, real estate, and market solutions. Its culture is driven by collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and a commitment to high-quality insights that support investors, portfolio companies, management teams, and communities.
About the Risk Analytics and Solutions Group
The client’s credit platform is a diversified credit investing business managing approximately $93 billion across a broad range of credit strategies. The Risk Analytics and Solutions group is responsible for architecting and maintaining a comprehensive suite of risk analytics and applications to support firmwide risk oversight and portfolio management. While the team works extensively with the credit platform, the mandate is expanding to provide analytics support across the client’s global business lines.
The client’s credit platform is a diversified credit investing business managing approximately $93 billion across a broad range of credit strategies. The Risk Analytics and Solutions group is responsible for architecting and maintaining a comprehensive suite of risk analytics and applications to support firmwide risk oversight and portfolio management. While the team works extensively with the credit platform, the mandate is expanding to provide analytics support across the client’s global business lines.
Position Overview
Reporting to the Head of Risk Analytics and Solutions, the Vice President will lead the development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality portfolio analytics, risk reporting, and proprietary applications. This role focuses primarily on the credit business, including Credit Solutions, Structured Credit, and Asset-Backed Lending, while contributing to the broader expansion of the group’s mandate. The successful candidate will bridge complex quantitative modeling and senior-level business decision-making by translating investment and risk questions into clear analytical requirements, fit-for-purpose models, and actionable insights.
Reporting to the Head of Risk Analytics and Solutions, the Vice President will lead the development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality portfolio analytics, risk reporting, and proprietary applications. This role focuses primarily on the credit business, including Credit Solutions, Structured Credit, and Asset-Backed Lending, while contributing to the broader expansion of the group’s mandate. The successful candidate will bridge complex quantitative modeling and senior-level business decision-making by translating investment and risk questions into clear analytical requirements, fit-for-purpose models, and actionable insights.
This role partners cross-functionally with Front Office, Technology, Data Management, Accounting, Operations, and Treasury teams to ensure a robust and scalable risk infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of sophisticated risk models and applications, including VaR, stress testing, capital allocation, and liquidity reserve frameworks.
- Monitor daily risk and P&L fluctuations, distilling key drivers into concise, executive-ready narratives and recommendations for senior management and the Front Office.
- Oversee the production of comprehensive risk and performance reporting for credit, insurance, and retail products, tailoring content for senior stakeholder audiences and ensuring reporting aligns to key business decisions, product narratives, and investor needs.
- Serve as a trusted partner to senior investment teams and product specialists by clarifying business objectives, translating stakeholder needs into analytics specifications and deliverables, and communicating complex quantitative outputs as clear, strategic recommendations.
- Drive the resolution of complex data and application issues by coordinating with Technology and Data Management stakeholders, ensuring single-source-of-truth integrity across all risk reporting.
- Contribute to the group’s expansion into private equity and other alternative asset classes by adapting existing credit-centric frameworks to new strategies.
Requirements
- Advanced degree, preferably a Master’s or PhD, in a quantitative discipline such as Financial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in financial risk management, quantitative analytics, or a related function, preferably within an alternative asset manager, credit platform, or similarly sophisticated financial institution.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex data into clear, executive-level insights, framing the “so what,” anticipating stakeholder questions, and influencing decisions with well-supported recommendations.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with senior business stakeholders, including the ability to translate business needs into analytical problem statements, explain technical tradeoffs, and align cross-functional teams on solutions.
- Deep understanding of corporate credit and securitized products, including bonds, loans, RMBS, ABS, CMBS, CLOs, and specialty lending.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL are required. Experience with R, VBA, or other quantitative and analytical tools is a plus.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented, and intellectually curious, with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and a strong commitment to accuracy, rigor, and operational excellence.