Vice President, Portfolio and Risk Management

AB CarVal is an established global alternative asset manager focused on distressed and credit-intensive assets and market inefficiencies. Since 1987, our experienced team has navigated through ever-changing credit market cycles, opportunistically investing $135 billion in 5,630 transactions across 82 countries. Today, AB CarVal Investors has approximately $14 billion in assets under management in corporate securities, loan portfolios, structured credit and hard assets.

AB CarVal Investors is dedicated to attracting and retaining the industry's best people across asset classes and geographies. AB CarVal is committed to diversity and inclusion, valuing the full range of life experiences, skills and qualities of our employees. We believe peak effectiveness comes from an engaged, talented, and diverse workforce.

The VP will play a key role within the AB CarVal Risk Management function. The Risk Management team is composed on eight risk and/or reporting professionals responsible for partnering with commercial leadership to identify, measure, monitor, and manage risk exposure across the firm and its funds. The VP will lead analysis and reporting responsibilities within risk. This position will require global knowledge of AB CarVal's business and interaction with risk management, investment professionals, operations, technology and third-party service providers.

This position will report to the Managing Director of Risk.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Develop an understanding of trading strategies, underwriting assumptions, business risks and how the portfolio behaves under stress. Provide analysis, reporting, and opine on conclusions to highlight issues/trends.
• Review investment data sets and analyze them, reporting into themes, conclusions, and insights based on the analysis.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for use by senior management, from existing and to be developed systems. Ensure global data integrity of information in the reports and that it is complete and consistent with an understanding of the business activity.
• Present reporting, conclusions, and views to senior management in a clear manner.
• Understand and be able to effectively utilize risk assessment tools and risk measurement methodologies, including their underlying assumptions and potential weaknesses, to draw conclusions. Challenge assumptions used in the methodologies based on understanding of the portfolio.
• Maintain reporting systems and work with Risk Management and other groups to improve efficiency of the systems through automation of data gathering and reporting, allowing for reduced report preparation time, more time for value-added activities and analysis, and improved data integrity.

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in finance or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in investment, fund, financial markets, or related industry.
• Demonstrated strong analytical and critical thinking skills. Demonstrated ability investigate problems, find solutions, and determine best approach to proactively resolve issues.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to ask relevant, informed and intelligent questions about transactions, structures, relationships and risks
• Expert Excel skills including proficiency with pivot tables, charts and data analysis tools.
• Demonstrated strong commercial focus and desire to improve processes and find solutions to meet customer needs.
• Demonstrated attention to detail.
• Ability to take initiative, work autonomously and handle multiple demands.
• Familiarity with financial instruments.

Preferred

• CFA
• Experience working with a Risk function including understanding risk fundamentals.
• Familiarity with data analysis tools including Python and/or SQL or basic programming experience.