Aegon job:

Junior Portfolio Risk Manager

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  • CategoryGraduate
  • LevelMSc. degree
  • LocationThe Hague
  • Deadline10 okt 2021
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19 jan 2022

Are you interested in starting your career in risk investment? And do you want to work on modelling, monitoring and reporting of portfolio risks together with your colleagues? Then the Portfolio Risk Analyst position at Aegon Asset Management is your next adventure!

The job in a nutshell

As a Portfolio Risk Analyst you will be part of a team dedicated to investment risk management activities in support of Aegon Asset Management’s (AAM) portfolios. Working in the Portfolio Risk Management (PRM) department, the team consists of 17 investment-focused risk professionals and programmers located across four offices in three countries. You will report to a senior member of the Global PRM team.

Key Responsibilities

  • You are principally focused on working with senior colleagues to support modelling, monitoring and reporting of portfolio risk.
  • You will support business as usual activities and ad hoc requests.
  • Support creating investment risks reports and analyses of Fixed Income products.
  • Compliance with all Aegon Asset Management policies and standards.

This is your future job, because you:

We seek an energetic, ambitious and proactive colleague to start within our team. You will get dedicated support and coaching from colleagues. We will offer you a steep learning curve by providing exposure to different tasks and investment products. Next to this you are able to work with targets and build relationships with colleagues.

As a Junior Portfolio Risk Analyst you will have the following qualifications:

  • 0-2 years of working experience and a finished Master's degree in Econometrics, Mathematics, Finance & Investment, Economics, or other finance related field.
  • Strong interest in financial markets and knowledge of market risk metrics VaR, volatility, tracking error, duration, liquidity, beta and correlation are preferable.
  • You are interested in starting or completing a CFA, PRM or FRM.
  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel is essential. Development experience using VBA, Phyton or similar languages an advantage. Familiarity with SQL is a plus.

What will you be getting

Aegon Asset Management aims to be an employer of choice in the financial services industry. As a global company, we offer excellent terms of employment, a very diverse and inspiring work environment, and development opportunities. More over we offer the following:

  • You will be earning between €2.750, - and € 3.500,- based on 40 hours a week and your experience.
  • You will also receive a thirteenth month and a holiday allowance in the form of a monthly flex budget, amounting to 16.7% of your monthly salary
  • Plenty of scope and budget for your personal development
  • A minimum of 27 holiday days
  • Reimbursement of your travel expenses
  • Discount on Aegon life insurance products
  • An excellent pension scheme.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Aegon Asset Management, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We are more than a global Asset Management firm – we are a people business, and we recognize that delivering excellent client outcomes comes from harnessing distinct perspectives. We value diversity in the full range of human uniqueness without limitation including race, gender, ability, language, culture, beliefs, age, origin, background, perspectives and experiences.

Interested? Apply!

Does this role appeal to you? We then look forward to receiving your cv and motivation via our application form on this website. For more information about the application procedure you can contact Emily van der Werff, Talent Acquisition Manager Graduate via Emily.vanderwerff@aegon.nl or +31 (0)6 83041623.

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