About Waystone
Waystone is a leading asset-servicing solutions provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to financial institutions. With over 25 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone helps our clients structure, operate and grow through our expertise, innovation and digitisation, backed by the operational scale to support global expansion
JOB PURPOSE
The Junior Associate – Investment Risk will be an integral part of the Waystone team and will play a pivotal role
in proactively managing and supporting their clients and funds from a commercial and governance perspective
as well as representing Waystone at external events.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Monitoring of portfolio risks
- Monitor investment compliance (legal framework restrictions and investment strategy limits) and all
levels of risk (market, credit, counterparty, liquidity, sustainability). - Ensure timely checks, production and delivery of risk and compliance reports.
- Effectively escalate, communicate and report breaches to fund managers and to the CSSF.
- Assess and produce funds’ risk profile
- Follow up on client requests and ad-hoc investment product eligibility analysis.
REQUIREMENTS
Your Profile
- Hold a master’s degree in finance, risk management, business engineering, or mathematics. first experience in Finance is considered an asset.
- Familiarity with Luxembourg’s fund industry and portfolio risk oversight framework for UCITS investment funds.
- Fluent in English with very good writing and verbal communication skills. Any other language would be considered an asset.
- Experience in Python and/or VBA would be considered as an advantage.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in finance, risk management, business engineering, or mathematics
- Familiarity with Luxembourg's fund industry and UCITS portfolio risk oversight framework
- Fluent in English with strong written and verbal communication skills
- Any additional language
- First experience in finance
- Experience with Python and/or VBA
What We Do
Waystone is the leading provider of institutional governance, risk and compliance services to the asset management industry. Partnering institutional investors, investment funds and asset managers Waystone builds, supports and protects investment structures and strategies worldwide. With over 20 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone is now supporting asset managers with more than US$2Tn in AUM Waystone provides its clients with the guidance and tools to allow them to focus on managing their investment goals with confidence
