Invesco India | Risk Analyst

Key responsibilities / duties

• As an organization we support personal needs, diverse backgrounds and provide internal networks, as well as opportunities to get involved in the community and in the world.
• As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least four days a week, with one day working outside an Invesco office.
• Monitor risk Thresholds and Alerts for covered investment centers.
• Develop first-class tools and analytics that highlight drivers of portfolio risk, factor exposures, areas of portfolio concentration etc.
• Engage the technology group in support of furthering the quality, structure and use of risk data throughout the organization and to facilitate the delivery of state-of-the-art risk analytics and risk models.
• Leverage performance attribution innovatively within the risk process to provide insights into the investment process, beyond standard reporting.
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Requirements

• 2 to 3 years’ financial industry experience is desirable, asset management experience as an analyst is a plus.
• Understanding of equity risk factor models, including but not limited to Barra, Axioma, Bloomberg, etc.
• Experience in programming (Python, R), data analysis, quantitative model development, and SQL is required.
• Ability to conduct research directed by senior members of the team and to balance multiple projects concurrently.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and writing) and an ability to frequently interact with investment and product teams.
• Quantitative background in the equity asset class preferred.
• Strong Intellectual curiosity about the financial markets, risk/quantitative research and applications.

Invesco Ltd.

With roots going back to 1935, Invesco is an independent investment manager serving retail and institutional investors in more than 120 countries, with its own people on the ground in over 20 of them. Invesco Ltd. is organised under Bermuda law, has its principal executive office in Atlanta, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol IVZ. It manages equity, fixed income, balanced, money-market and alternative strategies, and its range takes in ETFs and index products as well as private markets funds. In India, Invesco has an office in Hyderabad, at the Divyasree Orion campus in Raidurgam, and it also recruits in Mumbai.

Invesco's finance-related openings in Hyderabad include fund administration and reconciliation managers, operations associates, risk analysts and senior compliance analysts. Postings usually ask for a B.Com, M.Com or MBA, often with finance as the main subject, and one lists a CA among the accepted qualifications. One analytical posting looks for a degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics or engineering, together with progress towards an accreditation such as CFA, FRM or PRM.

• Industry: Investment management: equity, fixed income, multi-asset, money-market and alternative strategies, ETFs and private markets
• Headquarters: Atlanta, United States (Invesco Ltd., listed on the NYSE as IVZ)
• In India: Office in Hyderabad (Divyasree Orion, Raidurgam), where its finance and operations roles are based; Invesco also recruits in Mumbai