Enterprise Services - Risk (MARS) Implementation Specialist - Tokyo

Our Team

The Risk Implementation team provides our Risk Enterprise clients exceptional service in full implementation and onboarding. This includes scoping, deployment, and integration of our solutions within the framework of their existing businesses. Risk implementations handles multi-asset portfolio risk products, which include Multi-Asset Risk System (MARS) Front Office Risk, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Counterparty Risk, Hedge accounting and Collateral management. We partner with Sales and Account Management throughout the sales process to ensure the solution is a fit for our client's needs. We also work with the Products and Engineering teams to ensure the client has an efficient and exceptional onboarding experience.

What's the role?

As a Risk Implementation Specialist, you will lead and scale Bloomberg PORT Enterprise implementations for sophisticated Buy-side and Sell-side clients across APAC. with a particular focus on in-depth knowledge of fixed income and OTC derivatives in Front Office Risk, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Counterparty Risk, Hedge accounting and Collateral management. You will partner closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Analytics teams, as well as portfolio managers, risk professionals, attribution specialists, operations teams, and technology stakeholders to understand client workflows, configure solutions, and ensure successful implementation and adoption.

This role combines relationship management, implementation leadership, project execution, investment analytics expertise, and technical problem-solving. You will manage implementation timelines, lead projects from discovery through production go-live, support data onboarding, validation and risk analytics reconciliation efforts, deliver client training, and help clients embed MARS into their risk management workflows. You will also act as a trusted advisor to clients, driving adoption and ensuring successful business outcomes. Travel may be required to support client engagements across the APAC region.

We'll trust you to:

• Lead end-to-end Risk (MARS) implementations from discovery through production go-live.
• Define project scope, delivery milestones, governance structures, and success criteria.
• Manage data onboarding, portfolio structures, analytics configuration, and validation.
• Configure portfolio analytics and risk workflows aligned with client risk processes.
• Investigate analytics discrepancies and communicate findings effectively to both technical and investment stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted advisor to risk professionals and technology leaders.
• Drive client adoption through workflow design, user training, and operating model recommendations.
• Partner with other teams to improve implementation standards and influence future product enhancements (Product, Engineering, Services, Buy-side Order Management (AIM), Trade Order Management Solutions (TOMS) as well as Portfolio Analytics)

You'll need to have:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience within buy-side/sell-side investment management, asset ownership, financial technology, consulting, or enterprise software implementation environments with exposure to portfolio risk, analytics, performance measurement, or investment operations.
• Strong understanding of institutional investment workflows, including portfolio construction, performance measurement, attribution, risk management, and data operations.
• Good understanding of economics and modelling of cross asset financial instruments, including fixed income, equities, OTC derivatives
• Working knowledge of Risk and portfolio analytics solutions such as Value At Risk (VaR), Fundamental Review Trading Book (FRTB), Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM), and counterparty risk (XVA)
• Experience leading complex implementations, transformation initiatives, or strategic client engagements involving multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate and resolve complex analytics and data-related challenges.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex investment and technical concepts to a broad range of audiences.
• Experience managing multiple priorities and operating effectively in ambiguous and fast-paced environments.
• Experience working with portfolio data structures, market data, analytics outputs, and technical integration workflows.
• Professional fluency in English and Japanese.
• Occasional travel may be required based on business needs

We'd love to see:

• Knowledge of modern data architecture, cloud technologies, API ecosystems, data visualization tools, or investment data strategies.
• Experience with portfolio analytics, performance attribution and ex-ante risk
• Interest in emerging trends across portfolio analytics, investment technology, AI-enabled workflows, and data-driven investment processes.
• Exposure to technical tools such as APIs, Python, SQL, or similar data analysis and integration technologies
• Knowledge of the collateral management process
• FRM, CFA, CAIA, or equivalent investment qualifications.

If this sounds like you:

Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this:[1] https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/bloomberg-terminal/portfolio-analytics/

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