Role Overview:

This role is for a Senior Asset Valuations Specialist to join the team and assist with the upscaling of the team’s expertise and broadening remit. This role combines team leadership, stakeholder engagement and technical expertise to maintain high quality standards in valuations processes, enhance efficiency, manage / reduce operational risks and provide adhoc expertise assistance on valuations for a wider set of products. It also involves managing relationships with key internal and external partners, ensuring controls, compliance and driving innovation to streamline operational processes. 

Role Responsibilities:

• Perform daily, monthly and quarterly quality control checks on OTC and Sec Fin asset valuations 

• Work with pricing model owners to develop action plans to remediate valuation issues 

• Monitoring findings, recommendations and management action plans resulting from valuation issues, ensuring timely and appropriate actions are taken to address concerns. 

• Prepare metrics and assist in reporting on asset valuations to various senior committees including the OTC Pricing and Valuation Committees. 

• Improve valuation policy and practise awareness through regular coordination with key stakeholders. 

• Develop and improve processes and procedures supporting asset valuations. 

• Maintain active engagement with vendors (i.e. market data vendors) and counterparties, and third parties, where it relates to the valuation of Insight managed positions. 

• Ownership of pricing and valuation policies; validation of adherence, updating policies, subject to appropriate committee approval. 

• Assist with model validation testing plans, evaluate the appropriateness of model inputs, and to assess the theory of the models. 

Experience Required:

• Experience of derivatives, including but not limited to IRS, Inflation products, CDS, Equity Swaps and Options, ideally gained in a Product Control, Risk or Middle Office role in an Investment Bank and/or a Valuations, Control or Middle Office role in an Investment Manager 

• Excellent understanding of OTC derivative and Secured Finance asset pricing – to include but not be limited to IRS, Inflation, Options, other fixed income derivatives and loans. 

• Strong MS Excel, and VBA, SQL knowledge beneficial 

• Understanding of OTC Collateral Management including impact of CSA terms 

• Experience of exchange traded derivatives and securities valuations  

• Strong and enthusiastic team player with excellent communication skills 

• Excellent organisational skills, proven ability to multitask and prioritise 

• Ability to work to tight and fixed deadlines 

• Experience with Bloomberg 

• Demonstrable ability to improve and streamline existing processes 

• Excellent problem-solving skills 

• Proactive and flexible approach 

• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and the ability to solve complex problems 

• Familiarity with regulatory requirements, governance and pricing policy frameworks 

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 [email protected]

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 2025across 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/