Junior Associate - Investment Risk Liquid Assets

About Waystone  

Waystone is a leading asset-servicing solutions provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to financial institutions. With over 25 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone helps our clients structure, operate and grow through our expertise, innovation and digitisation, backed by the operational scale to support global expansion

JOB PURPOSE 
The Junior Associate – Investment Risk will be an integral part of the Waystone team and will play a pivotal role 
in proactively managing and supporting their clients and funds from a commercial and governance perspective 
as well as representing Waystone at external events. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Monitoring of portfolio risks 
• Monitor investment compliance (legal framework restrictions and investment strategy limits) and all 
  levels of risk (market, credit, counterparty, liquidity, sustainability). 
• Ensure timely checks, production and delivery of risk and compliance reports. 
•  Effectively escalate, communicate and report breaches to fund managers and to the CSSF. 
• Assess and produce funds’ risk profile 
• Follow up on client requests and ad-hoc investment product eligibility analysis. 

REQUIREMENTS
Your Profile 

• Hold a master’s degree in finance, risk management, business engineering, or mathematics. first experience in Finance is considered an asset. 
• Familiarity with Luxembourg’s fund industry and portfolio risk oversight framework for UCITS investment funds.
• Fluent in English with very good writing and verbal communication skills. Any other language would be considered an asset.
• Experience in Python and/or VBA would be considered as an advantage.