Responsibilities:

• Day to day responsibility for managing the Investment Risk function across private and public market funds, looking at fund counterparty risk, market risk, liquidity and credit risk.
• Overseeing fund liquidity risk, stress testing, redemption modelling across equities, fixed income, private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate asset classes working in tandem with the investment team
• Support the design, validation and implementation of models and other tools used to support the construct of the wider investment portfolio
• Work strategically to further develop the risk management framework and policy and to create and maintain a suite of risk metrics that accurately reflect the risk profile of the strategies
• Working with various teams to ensure optimisation of the services/functionality available to the investment teams
• Strong leadership qualities of bringing the team together, balancing BAU with change projects
• Keep the ex-co and board abreast of the key risks within the portfolio and report on a timely basis

Skills Required:

• Strong knowledge of the financial services market with a background in leading the investment risk function within an investment manager
• Deep knowledge of various products across public and private assets (both directly and indirectly invested)
• Excellent organisational and planning skills
• Strong leadership qualities
• Working knowledge of Barra, Risk Manager and Bloomberg ideally
• Excellent communication skills
• Strategic thinker and operator