Insight Investment
Senior Asset Valuations Analyst - Contract (London)
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Senior Asset Valuations Analyst
We are looking for a Senior Asset Valuations Analyst to join us in our London office. This 12-month contract is suited to an experienced valuations analyst who can add immediate hands-on support to the Asset Valuations team, with limited ramp-up.
The role will focus on strengthening valuation oversight across OTC derivatives and secured finance products, supporting remediation of valuation issues, enhancing controls and improving day-to-day processes. The contractor will work closely with internal stakeholders, model owners, vendors, counterparties, and outsourced partners to maintain high valuation standards, reduce operational risk and provide practical technical expertise where additional capacity and specialist knowledge are required.
Role Responsibilities
- Deliver daily, monthly and quarterly quality control checks across OTC derivative and secured finance asset valuations, identifying breaks, exceptions and areas requiring escalation
- Work directly with pricing model owners and internal stakeholders to investigate valuation issues and support practical remediation plans
- Track valuation findings, recommendations and management action plans, ensuring actions are progressed, evidenced, and closed within agreed timelines
- Prepare MI, metrics, and committee reporting for asset valuations, including input for OTC Pricing and Valuation Committees
- Support valuation policy and practice awareness by working with key stakeholders to clarify processes, controls, and required standards
- Identify and deliver improvements to valuation processes, procedures, and controls, with a focus on reducing operational risk and improving consistency
- Engage with market data vendors, counterparties, and outsourced partners to resolve valuation queries and support the valuation of Insight-managed positions
- Support pricing and valuation policy maintenance, including adherence checks, updates, and preparation for appropriate committee review and approval
- Assist with model validation testing, including review of model inputs, assumptions, and valuation methodology
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Experience Required
- Strong hands-on experience in OTC derivatives valuations, product control, risk, middle office, or asset valuations, ideally gained within an investment bank or investment manager environment
- Practical understanding of OTC derivative and secured finance pricing, including IRS, inflation products, options, fixed income derivatives, loans, and related valuation drivers
- Advanced Excel capability is required; VBA, SQL, or similar data manipulation experience would be beneficial
- Strong understanding of OTC collateral management, including the valuation impact of CSA terms
- Experience across exchange-traded derivatives and securities valuations would be useful
- Able to work independently, engage effectively with stakeholders, and provide clear, concise updates on valuation issues and remediation progress
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise multiple valuation tasks across fixed daily, monthly, and quarterly deadlines
- Comfortable operating in a time-sensitive control environment with limited ramp-up
- Bloomberg experience is required
- Demonstrable experience improving or streamlining valuation processes, controls, or reporting outputs
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate root causes and recommend practical solutions
- Proactive, delivery-focused, and comfortable picking up complex valuation issues quickly
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, particularly when reviewing valuation outputs, inputs, and exceptions
- Familiarity with valuation governance, regulatory expectations, and pricing policy frameworks would be beneficial
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About Insight Investment
Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients' needs. Founded in 2002, Insight's collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight managed £631.9bn of assets as at 31 December 2025 across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, and currency capabilities. Insight has a clear mission and purpose to offer investors a different approach to achieving their investment goals; one that prioritises the certainty of meeting investors' chosen objectives in contrast to the traditional focus on maximising return and minimising volatility. Insight operates across the globe with a presence in the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Japan, and Australia; and is a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation ("BNY") (NYSE:BK), the global financial services company.
The business employs over 1,100 people, including 277 investment professionals.
More information about Insight Investment can be found at: https://www.insightinvestment.com/uk/
Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other factors protected by federal, state, and/or local laws. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at TalentAcquisition@InsightInvestment.com.
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