About the role
Senior Associate in the Portfolio Risk team at Temasek, responsible for executing the risk framework, conducting research and thematic analysis, supporting stress testing, monitoring early warning indicators, and providing analytical support to senior management.
InvestmentOnsite
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct research into emerging macro themes, geopolitical developments, or structural trends, evaluating their potential impact on portfolio assets.
- Run bespoke analytical models to answer management queries, ensuring high quality and timely delivery of data.
- Analyze and understand potential implications of data, providing thoughtful summaries.
- Design and develop macro and thematic scenarios to identify key risk drivers.
- Support in qualitative and quantitative articulation of scenarios.
- Independently run and maintain standardized stress tests following established procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a highly quantitative discipline.
- 3-6 years of relevant experience in Risk Management, Strategy, or Portfolio Management within a Sovereign Wealth Fund, Asset Manager, or major financial institution.
- Ability to develop top-down macro scenarios and translate them into bottom-up fundamental impacts.
- Proficiency in applying econometric modeling (e.g., regression analysis, time-series forecasting) to validate key risk drivers and quantify their effects on company-level performance.
- Strong understanding and practical experience with valuation methodologies (e.g., DCF modeling).
- Ability to run and troubleshoot financial models independently.