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We are searching for an enthusiastic individual to join our fast-growing Investment Risk team to tackle new challenges in a continuous improvement environment.

As a member of the Investment Risk team, you will be contributing to the running, development, and maintenance of asset-liability, market, credit, liquidity and regulatory investment risk models and reports covering General and Pension Funds. Your work will ultimately be used to support the business and management in strategic decision-making. Additionally, you will be assisting in the build-out of our systems infrastructure to improve efficiency, automation, and insight-driven analysis.

Possible Locations: Toronto, Montreal or Quebec City

More specifically, you will:

• Design, specify, and support implementation of detailed risk reports and analysis consistent with the investment policy and other investment-risk-related policies.
• Run and improve efficiency of investment risk processes.
• Contribute to the evaluation and implementation of risk management frameworks.
• Analyze risk metrics and provide insights to the team and our partners.
• Implement risk management processes based on industry best practices.
• Contribute to a variety of complex strategic projects, mandates, and activities.
• Maintain and develop investment risk models.

Job requirements:

• Very strong programming skills (SAS, SQL, R, and/or Python).
• Experience with an investment risk system (an asset).
• Good knowledge of financial and insurance products.
• Solid command of English and/or French (oral and written).
• Some relevant work experience related to investments, investment risk or actuarial science.
• University degree in finance, actuarial science, or other related quantitative discipline.
• CFA, FRM or PRM certification (an asset).
• Knowledge of investment risk concepts and presentation of complex data.

Personal attributes:

• Strong time management skills and ability to work under tight time deadlines
• Motivated, self-starter, comfortable building new tools and models
• Ability to work on a cross-functional team