Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company Career Opportunities
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Risk Data Analyst
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Opportunity Snapshot
If you are a dynamic self-starter looking to launch your career, consider this support position with a financial services firm poised for growth...
As our Risk Data Analyst, you'll be working in PAAMCO's Risk Management department, participating in one of our four analyst programs. You'll receive a hands-on introduction to the financial services industry and gain valuable insight into our operations.
We're a small, but fast-paced company, and we're looking for a highly efficient, flexible, self-motivated, polished professional comfortable working with a high-caliber team.
What's in It for You
High impact: Perhaps you haven't heard of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, LLC ("PAAMCO"), but we are a leading independent fund of hedge funds investment firm dedicated to offering strategic alternative investment solutions to institutional investors worldwide. PAAMCO's clients include large public and private pension plans, foundations, endowments, and financial institutions.
Career development: we're committed to helping our employees enhance their professional development through workshops and special training. In your first six months, you'll work with your supervisor to develop a professional development track for life after PAAMCO -- this could include pursuing a master's degree in computer science, or other advanced educational degree.
High profile: You will work closely with and report to the company's Associate Director of Risk Management, who is based in PAAMCO's corporate headquarters in Irvine. Because of our structure, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from the senior members of the organization.
Great work environment: we value teamwork in a casual but results-oriented environment. We're bright and hardworking, but we also know how to have fun. We also reward performance and offer a bonus potential at the end of the year.
Our Requirements
A bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science from a competitive university.
Ability to apply your knowledge of programming, databases, and analytical thinking to finance and quantitative research environments.
Knowledge of SQL, and familiarity with Microsoft Excel a big plus
An interest in financial markets or hedge funds
More About Your Role
The Risk Data Analyst is an important contributor to the Risk Management team, programming analytical tools and applications for portfolio analysis. You will be involved in creating and administering complex SQL code for data analysis of hedge fund portfolios, as well as developing and maintaining large databases with market positions/exposures data.
The best way to give a snapshot of this position's day-to-day activities is to start at the middle of the month. From the 12th to the 28th of each month, you'll review positions from hedge fund managers, making sure that the positions are "clean" and complete. You'll also begin the initial process of inputting the positions into PAAMCO's proprietary database, and working with staff members from across the firm to make adjustments or identify major changes from month to month. From the 22nd to the 28th of each month, our firm begins to send out client reports, and the Risk Data Analyst helps to compile this information. You'll also help prepare data for firm-wide roundtable discussion sessions. At this point, using third-party analytical software, you'll begin a more detailed process of reviewing results, looking for patterns, and making any necessary corrections to the data.
At the beginning of the next month, you will have time to work on long-term department projects, helping to create tools that will be utilized across the department. Not to worry, you'll receive all the relevant financial training necessary to successfully perform these tasks. In general, this position works from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., but you may need to stay until 7:00 p.m. depending on workload.
Keys To Success
Assuming you have the technical skills necessary for a Risk Data Analyst, several skills are essential to your success in our unique environment:
Easygoing personality: while you'll spend most of your time in front of a computer screen coding and programming, you'll also interact with a wide range of people throughout the firm. Your welcoming personality will be a perfect fit within our team.
Flexibility: the Risk Management department is an extremely pressure-driven environment. Your ability to juggle competing priorities with professionalism and a calm demeanor will go a long way in working with the Associate Director of Risk Management and other members of the PAAMCO team.
Integrity: this position will give you a high degree of responsibility. PAAMCO is a firm of vibrant achievers who rely on each other for support and to maintain the company's sound reputation for service and investments. As part of the employment screening process, you will need to agree to a comprehensive background check.
If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity for you, and you meet the requirements, we look forward to hearing from you!
More About Our Company
Headquartered in Irvine, California, with satellite offices in London and Singapore, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company LLP (PAAMCO) specializes in constructing diversified hedge fund portfolios for large institutional investors. Founded just over seven years ago, the 80-person firm takes a sector-specialist, research-driven approach to investment management with a dedicated focus on the following strategies: convertible bond hedging, sovereign debt and mortgage hedging, equity market neutral, merger arbitrage, credit hedging, distressed debt, long/short equity and short-biased hedge funds.
Opportunity Snapshot
If you are a dynamic self-starter looking to launch your career, consider this support position with a financial services firm poised for growth...
As our Risk Data Analyst, you'll be working in PAAMCO's Risk Management department, participating in one of our four analyst programs. You'll receive a hands-on introduction to the financial services industry and gain valuable insight into our operations.
We're a small, but fast-paced company, and we're looking for a highly efficient, flexible, self-motivated, polished professional comfortable working with a high-caliber team.
What's in It for You
High impact: Perhaps you haven't heard of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, LLC ("PAAMCO"), but we are a leading independent fund of hedge funds investment firm dedicated to offering strategic alternative investment solutions to institutional investors worldwide. PAAMCO's clients include large public and private pension plans, foundations, endowments, and financial institutions.
Career development: we're committed to helping our employees enhance their professional development through workshops and special training. In your first six months, you'll work with your supervisor to develop a professional development track for life after PAAMCO -- this could include pursuing a master's degree in computer science, or other advanced educational degree.
High profile: You will work closely with and report to the company's Associate Director of Risk Management, who is based in PAAMCO's corporate headquarters in Irvine. Because of our structure, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from the senior members of the organization.
Great work environment: we value teamwork in a casual but results-oriented environment. We're bright and hardworking, but we also know how to have fun. We also reward performance and offer a bonus potential at the end of the year.
Our Requirements
A bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science from a competitive university.
Ability to apply your knowledge of programming, databases, and analytical thinking to finance and quantitative research environments.
Knowledge of SQL, and familiarity with Microsoft Excel a big plus
An interest in financial markets or hedge funds
More About Your Role
The Risk Data Analyst is an important contributor to the Risk Management team, programming analytical tools and applications for portfolio analysis. You will be involved in creating and administering complex SQL code for data analysis of hedge fund portfolios, as well as developing and maintaining large databases with market positions/exposures data.
The best way to give a snapshot of this position's day-to-day activities is to start at the middle of the month. From the 12th to the 28th of each month, you'll review positions from hedge fund managers, making sure that the positions are "clean" and complete. You'll also begin the initial process of inputting the positions into PAAMCO's proprietary database, and working with staff members from across the firm to make adjustments or identify major changes from month to month. From the 22nd to the 28th of each month, our firm begins to send out client reports, and the Risk Data Analyst helps to compile this information. You'll also help prepare data for firm-wide roundtable discussion sessions. At this point, using third-party analytical software, you'll begin a more detailed process of reviewing results, looking for patterns, and making any necessary corrections to the data.
At the beginning of the next month, you will have time to work on long-term department projects, helping to create tools that will be utilized across the department. Not to worry, you'll receive all the relevant financial training necessary to successfully perform these tasks. In general, this position works from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., but you may need to stay until 7:00 p.m. depending on workload.
Keys To Success
Assuming you have the technical skills necessary for a Risk Data Analyst, several skills are essential to your success in our unique environment:
Easygoing personality: while you'll spend most of your time in front of a computer screen coding and programming, you'll also interact with a wide range of people throughout the firm. Your welcoming personality will be a perfect fit within our team.
Flexibility: the Risk Management department is an extremely pressure-driven environment. Your ability to juggle competing priorities with professionalism and a calm demeanor will go a long way in working with the Associate Director of Risk Management and other members of the PAAMCO team.
Integrity: this position will give you a high degree of responsibility. PAAMCO is a firm of vibrant achievers who rely on each other for support and to maintain the company's sound reputation for service and investments. As part of the employment screening process, you will need to agree to a comprehensive background check.
If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity for you, and you meet the requirements, we look forward to hearing from you!
More About Our Company
Headquartered in Irvine, California, with satellite offices in London and Singapore, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company LLP (PAAMCO) specializes in constructing diversified hedge fund portfolios for large institutional investors. Founded just over seven years ago, the 80-person firm takes a sector-specialist, research-driven approach to investment management with a dedicated focus on the following strategies: convertible bond hedging, sovereign debt and mortgage hedging, equity market neutral, merger arbitrage, credit hedging, distressed debt, long/short equity and short-biased hedge funds.
Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
