Director, Private Assets – Investment Risk
iA Financial Group (Industrial Alliance)
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Montreal • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Lead
About the role
- Conduct transaction and portfolio level risk analysis across iA’s private infrastructure, private equity, real estate, and private debt businesses as well as other alternative assets to elucidate key risks, identify emerging risks, and provide key risk insights
- Lead the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of models, analysis, and reports associated with the private asset businesses
- Provide effective oversight to ensure risks remain within the organization’s risk appetite and tolerance as well as other investment risk related policies
- Support business decision making with the provision of insight-driven risk analysis
- Help to set the strategic direction for the private assets risk area as well as the broader Investment Risk group
- Be a subject matter expert on private and alternative assets risk for senior management and in the evaluation of new investment initiatives
- Stay up to date on best practices in investment risk for continuous improvement purposes
- Contribute to setting market and credit risk limits and to the development and implementation of risk management frameworks and policies
- Contribute to a variety of complex strategic projects, mandates, and activities
- Provide mentoring to more junior team members
Requirements
- University degree in a finance or other related quantitative discipline; graduate degree preferred
- Eight plus years experience in the investment risk field at an asset manager, pension fund, insurer, or bank
- Deep and direct experience with private asset investments – equity, infrastructure, real estate, and debt
- Deep experience and knowledge with credit risk – i.e. internal ratings assessments, quantification, rating methodologies, etc.
- Strong knowledge of financial products including derivatives
- Experience with investment and risk systems
- Mastery of investment risk concepts and the presentation of complex ideas
- Programming, data management, and general technology/system skills would be considered an asset
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both French and English
Benefits
- Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
- Support for employee wellbeing
- Flexible work model
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationstrategic thinkinginsight-driven decision makingsubject matter expertisecontinuous improvementoversightcollaborationpresentation skills