Investment Risk Consultant

At Franklin Templeton, we’re driving our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential but also to contribute to our clients’ achievements.

Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!

What is the Investment Risk Management group responsible for?

This organization plays a critical role in promoting risk awareness and providing risk expertise to various constituents throughout the company. As such, the group is responsible for identifying, assessing, and escalating risk insights

We are looking for an Investment Risk Consultant to join our team in Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale, or St Petersburg, Florida. The primary function of this position is to identify, monitoring, and communicating risks, and leverage the technical skills to enhance the team's data analytics capabilities. The candidate is expected to achieve Business Intelligence and Engineering by understanding existing internal tools and data warehouses and to identify data quality and reliability improvements and to establish best practices.

What is the Investment Risk Consultant responsible for?

As an Investment Risk Consultant, you will be responsible for identifying, monitoring, and communicating risks. You will also leverage your technical skills to enhance the team's data analytics capabilities.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of an Investment Risk Consultant?

Assist with the risk oversight of investment strategies.

Parse through large volumes of data to detect patterns and trends.

Execute risk reports, analyze results, and communicate risks clearly and concisely

Assess daily derivative usage and liquidity across FT funds.

Build analytical tools to derive risk insights more efficiently.

Work with team of risk managers

What ideal qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful?

Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or equivalent quantitative field

Minimum of 5 year of financial market, insurance, banking, quantitative risk, or similar experience

Experience with global regulatory rules including the US, Europe

Experience with VaR and other risk metrics

Strong knowledge of securities investments, asset classes and their characteristics

Data visualization skills (Tableau or Power BI a plus)

Experience working with large volumes of data and apply pattern detection / predictive analytics (Python a plus)

Strong database skills

Basic understanding of risk systems and factor models (Bloomberg, Barra a plus)

Basic understanding of asset management

Ability to work in cross-functional environments.

Strong communication skills, both verbal and written