Director, Investment Risk

The role

The Director, Investment Risk will establish a centralized investment risk function within the Legal, Compliance & Risk Management team. This person will provide risk measurement, analytics, governance, reporting, and oversight across fixed income and equity strategies.

What you will do

• Enhance GW&K's investment risk framework, including risk guidelines, governance, oversight, reporting, and escalation practices.
• Monitor and report portfolio, strategy, and product-level risks across equity and fixed income strategies.
• Perform portfolio risk analysis including risk attribution, factor analysis, scenario analysis, and stress testing.
• Partner with portfolio managers and investment leadership to understand portfolio construction and risk drivers.
• Work directly with investment risk and analytics platforms including FactSet, Axioma, and Bloomberg.
• Develop risk tools, dashboards, reporting, and analytical infrastructure.
• Participate in GW&K governance committees and lead the development of a formalized investment risk committee.
• Collaborate across GW&K to strengthen risk data, reporting, controls, and governance.
• Support client, consultant, and internal diligence related to portfolio risk management practices.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of investment risk management, portfolio analytics, or related investment oversight experience
• Experience with investment risk systems and analytics across equity, fixed income, derivatives, and multi-asset portfolios, including Bloomberg MARS, FactSet, Axioma, or comparable platforms.
• Solid understanding of portfolio construction and risk analytics, including benchmark-relative risk, tracking error, factor exposures, scenario and stress testing, VaR, duration, convexity, spread and
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• CFA
• FRM
• Experience building, formalizing, or enhancing independent investment risk programs and governance frameworks within institutional asset management
• Experience across both fixed income and equity strategies
• Experience supporting and participating in governance committees, fiduciary or compliance oversight, and client or consultant due diligence settings

Benefits

• Health and dental care coverage
• Employer-matched 401k
• Tuition reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Benefits that support a healthy work/life balance

About the company

GW&K is a growing and dynamic investment management firm. It has a unique and highly collaborative culture.