Senior Manager, Investment Risk

Russell Investments is a leading outsourced financial partner and global investment solutions firm providing a wide range of investment capabilities to institutional investors, financial intermediaries, and individual investors around the world. Building on an 90-year legacy of continuous innovation to deliver exceptional value to clients, Russell Investments works every day to improve the financial security of its clients. The firm is “Top 12 Ranked Consultant (2009-2024)” in P&I survey 2024 with $964 billion in assets under advisement (as of December 31, 2025) and $381.8 billion in assets under management (as of March 31, 2026) for clients in 30 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington in the United States, Russell Investments has offices around the world, including London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Mumbai.

Joining our Mumbai office means becoming part of a globally connected team where associates collaborate across functions, geographies, and time zones to support the work of a globally recognized asset management firm. Based in Goregaon (East), you will have the opportunity to work alongside colleagues around the world, contribute to meaningful initiatives, and build your career in a collaborative and inclusive environment. The Mumbai office operates with varying shifts to support collaboration across global time zones.

For more information, please visit https://www.russellinvestments.com.

Role Overview

The Investment Risk team is building a high-impact capability in India to support and enhance the Enterprise Risk Management System (ERMS). This role will play a critical part in owning key ERMS processes, delivering Portfolio risk analytics within defined SLAs, and driving strategic enhancements to risk infrastructure.

The position requires close collaboration with global teams (including Seattle-based peers), portfolio managers, research, technology, and operations teams. The candidate will contribute to both business-as-usual risk production and forward-looking, value-added initiatives, including implementing new risk models, onboarding new instruments, supporting new fund launches, and optimizing existing processes and systems.

Candidate Requirements

• 7–8 years of experience in Investment Risk, Quantitative Development, Risk Quant, or Strats functions.

• Experience within an asset management firm, bank, or financial institution preferred.

• Proven track record of implementing risk analytics and methodologies at a firm or portfolio level.

Qualification

• Master’s degree in Computational Finance, Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ERMS processes and ensure timely, accurate risk analytics delivery within defined SLAs. Ensure stable daily production and system reliability through effective monitoring and issue resolution.

• Implement and enhance risk models, with a focus on derivatives and complex financial instruments, while supporting the onboarding of new products, strategies and methodologies.

• Drive automation and optimize system architecture to improve scalability, efficiency and operational resilience. Work with large datasets and integrate multiple internal and external data sources.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives with global stakeholders, translating business requirements into structured execution plans and ensuring delivery of high-quality outcomes within agreed timelines.

• Generate actionable risk insights to support investment decision-making and handle ad-hoc analytical and reporting requirements from senior stakeholders.

• Apply strong understanding of financial instruments, pricing models, risk methodologies, and capital markets to enhance risk analytics and support robust model implementation.

• Collaborate effectively with Investment Risk, Portfolio Management, Technology and Operations teams, demonstrating strong leadership in driving initiatives end-to-end and engaging with senior stakeholders across regions.

Technical Skills

• Strong programming expertise in Python and SQL (mandatory).

• Good understanding of financial instruments including Derivatives, Pricing and Risk management.

• Good understanding of Risk Attributes in a portfolio setting like Greeks, VaR, stress testing etc.

• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures and system design.

• Experience building and maintaining production-grade systems.

• Familiarity with database design and large-scale data processing.

Core Values

• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication and collaboration skills with all levels of management

• Strong organizational skills including the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and meet frequent deadlines,

• Demonstrated proactive approach to problem-solving with strong judgment and decision-making capability.

• Highly resourceful and collaborative team-player, with the ability to also be independently effective and exude initiative and a sense of urgency.

• Exemplifies our customer-focused, action-oriented, results-driven culture.

• Forward looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities, has a desire for continuous learning, and proposes solutions.

• Ability to act with discretion and maintain complete confidentiality.

• Dedicated to the firm’s values of non-negotiable integrity, valuing our people, exceeding client expectations, and embracing intellectual curiosity and rigor.