Investment Risk Consultant - Fixed Income

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!

This is a HYBRID position working out of our FTL office.

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship/transfer for this position.

What is the Investment Risk Management Team responsible for?

The Investment Risk Management department is responsible for risk oversight of multi-asset and private-debt portfolios, as well as developing the risk management framework for real-asset portfolios and ensuring that they fall within the risk appetite defined by the organization.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of the Investment Risk Consultant?

• Monitoring and oversight of risk exposures for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions funds
• Producing and managing accurate and timely risk dashboards that support analytical requests from portfolio managers and senior risk managers
• Performing risk analysis on portfolios and their benchmarks and reporting on market, liquidity, and concentration risks
• Leveraging multi-factor risk models to produce ex-ante risk insights and clearly communicating the analysis to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Staying informed of the emergent and macro risks

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

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field such as quantitative finance, statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering, or computer science
• 2 to 5 years of relevant risk management experience at an investment management firm or a risk model vendor like MSCI, Axioma etc.
• Significant experience with the modeling and functionality of linear and non-linear derivatives like swaps, options, and futures
• Intellectual curiosity towards financial markets
• CFA or FRM, or progress towards those certifications preferred
• Strong statistical programming and data analysis skills

What technology skill sets are critical to the success of this role?

• Tech stack required for this role: PowerBI/Tableau (or similar BI tool), SQL and Python (or similar programing language)
• Experience with one or more of the following systems strongly preferred: Bloomberg PORT, MSCI BarraOne or Aladdin

Franklin Templeton offers employees a competitive and valuable range of total rewards—monetary and non-monetary—designed to support the whole person and to recognize their time, talents, and results. Along with base compensation, other compensation is offered such as a discretionary bonus, 401k plan, health insurance, and other perks. There are several factors taken into consideration in making compensation decisions including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. At Franklin Templeton, we apply a total reward philosophy where all aspects of compensation and benefits are taken into consideration in determining compensation. We expect the salary for this position to range between $110,000.00 and $130,000.00.

What makes Franklin Templeton unique?

In addition to the dynamic and professional environment at Franklin Templeton, we strive to ensure that our employees have access to a competitive and valuable set of Total Rewards—the mix of both monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to you in recognition for your time, talents, efforts, and results.

Highlights of our benefits include:

• Three weeks paid time off the first year
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with 85% company match on your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions, up to the IRS limits
• Employee Stock Investment Program
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Purchase of company funds with no sales charge

We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and supporting our communities. An emphasis on corporate citizenship is embedded in our culture and values, and is an important element of how we achieve success.

We are also committed to your learning and development with resources focused around Experience, Exposure, and Education, to help you achieve your professional development goals.

Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation. We invite you to visit us at Franklin Templeton Careers to learn more about our company, career opportunities and recruitment process.

Franklin Templeton is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. If you believe that you need an accommodation to search for, or apply for, one of our positions please send an email to accommodations@FranklinTempleton.com . In your email, please include the accommodation you are requesting and the job title and job number you are applying for. It may take up to three business days to receive a response to your request. Please note that only requests for accommodations will receive a response.