Risk Analytics Associate
Fasanara Capital is an alternative asset manager offering institutional investors fintech lending and digital asset investment strategies.
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About Fasanara Capital
Fasanara Capital is a London-based alternative asset manager focused on fintech lending and digital asset investing for institutional clients. It offers strategies spanning trade receivables, consumer loans, real estate credit, market-neutral crypto trading, and bespoke multi-asset portfolios. The firm operates a proprietary credit platform integrating a global network of fintech loan originators with machine learning analytics.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop portfolio risk analytics, monitor portfolio risks and limits, and escalate emerging issues. You will document reproducible models, improve data quality and platform scalability, harmonise datasets, automate reporting, and prepare regulatory, audit and governance reports. You will support portfolio construction, origination assessment and investor relations.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of data analytics experience in private credit, asset-backed finance, securitisation or related fields.
- Understanding of asset-backed finance and securitisation fundamentals, including collateral analysis, portfolio monitoring and structure mechanics.
- Advanced Python and Pandas skills.
- Knowledge of Git, CI/CD and collaborative development environments.
- Intermediate SQL skills.
- Ability to analyse concentration, exposure dynamics and portfolio performance trends.
- Ability to translate business and risk requirements into analytical outputs.
- Strong communication skills.
- System design knowledge is desirable.
- Knowledge of portfolio risk concepts and early-warning indicators is desirable.
- Familiarity with scenario analysis and stress testing is desirable.
- Understanding of data engineering concepts is desirable.
- Understanding of AWS cloud environments is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Develop portfolio risk analytics across asset-backed finance strategies.
- Monitor portfolio risks and limits and escalate emerging issues.
- Document models and analytics to ensure reproducibility.
- Improve analytics-platform data quality, reconciliation and scalability.
- Standardise and automate analytics and reporting.
- Harmonise heterogeneous datasets into portfolio-level views.
- Support portfolio construction, origination assessment, investor relations and strategic initiatives.
- Prepare reports for regulatory, audit and governance processes.
Benefits
- Performance-related bonus scheme.
- Private medical and dental insurance including children's cover.
- Life insurance, income protection and critical illness cover.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Salary-sacrifice pension matched up to 10%.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
- Emergency parental leave, emergency childcare and nursery benefit.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Charity giving through CAF.
- Annual wellbeing budget.
- Team socials and annual summer and Christmas parties.