Job Type:  Permanent 

Location:  This role is based in our London office on a hybrid basis with time spent working in the office and at home.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. 

Closing Date: 12th May 2024

Salary and benefits: Up to £130,000 plus 30% bonus up to 60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

Job Contact:  Amanda Foskett

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Senior Investment Risk Manager to join our Investment Management Oversight team to provide a professional service applying actuarial, technical & business knowledge to support the delivery of informed & effective decision making in order to deliver the company strategy.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 7,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

The successful candidate will join the asset management risk team as it builds its oversight model and capabilities. This role will sit in the investment management oversight team and will include responsibilities for managing the team's oversight of liquid trading activities in the group.

Responsibilities include:

• Assist Head of IMO to develop a Risk Management oversight function in respect of Liquid shareholder investment activity across the Phoenix Group and Phoenix Asset Management, working with the BIC, BRC and management to maintain an appropriate legal entity investment risk governance framework
• Lead and provide Line 2 oversight to BAU activities, implementation of shareholder strategy and investment proposals from but not limited to AM & Finance
• Develop oversight of liquid credit investments in regard to compliance with the internal control framework  ensuring that there is a robust system of risk exposure measures 
• Pre-trade transaction screening and Investigation of breaches
• Produce risk reporting and analytics and Run enterprise and portfolio stress testing
• Review and maintain documentation oversight of liquid products investment activities and market and credit risk control framework consistent with Group risk management standards
• Provide support, including the knowledge in rates and credit products, valuations, derivatives and hedging strategy, across the AM Risk to ensure effective and efficient management of financial risks.  
• Senior stakeholder management including representation at governance forums, committees and independent oversight bodies as required

 What are we looking for?

• An experienced Investment or Risk Professional with Deep portfolio and investment strategy implementation expertise on insurer SII and MA portfolios
• Extensive Knowledge of the markets, competitors, products, services, trends, impacting forces and factors, that make up the industries which Phoenix operates in
• Track record of developing, implementing or providing oversight of directly executed transactions support  the SAA of annuity and non-annuity portfolios
• Experience implementing or providing oversight of Macro markets and Liquid credit Trading strategies 
• Strong understanding of derivatives and their use in portfolio replicating trading strategies and implications of valuation, to support effective oversight of assets with embedded optionality 
• Wide ranging exposure to various liquid and less liquid asset classes, derivatives  and integrating into trading strategies that support effective risk management in MA portfolios 
• Demonstrable abilities in building, managing, and maintaining a trusted partner or oversight relationship with trading front office
• Knowledge of the regulatory requirements governing insurance companies with particular emphasis on investments
• Understanding of specialist financial risk related fields such as capital management and asset liability management.
• A good understanding of Solvency II
• Experience of reporting and presenting at senior management / executive level.

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. 

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best. 

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