Portfolio risk analyst career overview

In investment banking and financial institution, a collection of stocks (or) grouping of stocks, bonds, options and such related financial instruments is referred to as portfolio. This syndicate of financial instruments play a key role in determining worth of a firm popularly mentioned as firm’s asset position. Now I’m going to discuss few job duties of an interesting job profile called as Portfolio Risk Analyst 1) He will analyze the Market Risk across all business areas, asset classes 2) He will design, develop tools needed to analyze risk concentration 3) Reports to senior managers (Chief Risk Officer (CRO), CEO etc) on Sales and Trading Risks 4) Make managers use market risk calculation metrics like VaR and help them resolve issues 5) Participate in projects 6) Work in areas such as product control, regulatory control etc