Capital Platform Lead

Company: Selby Jennings
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Location: London
Job Description:

Open to both treasury/liquidity and risk candidates

A global investment management platform is seeking to hire a Capital Platform Lead to join a high-impact function focused on liquidity, financing and capital management across multi-asset investment strategies.

The firm operates a diversified portfolio across systematic and discretionary strategies and combines deep expertise across trading, technology and operations. With a strong data-driven approach, the organisation builds and runs its own infrastructure to support trading and investment decision-making across global markets.

Responsibilities

  • Safeguard firm-wide liquidity and solvency under stress
  • Monitor counterparty exposures and assess liquidity, including one-off opportunities
  • Optimize margin and financing across brokers through daily tracking and issue resolution
  • Provide capital, financing attribution, and profitability analysis to senior management
  • Respond to internal queries across all asset classes (equities, credit, FX, rates, commodities, volatility)
  • Involved in new business setup and broker selection, covering capital efficiency, credit diligence, and commercial negotiations
  • Manage ongoing broker dialogue (balances, constraints, profitability, asset mix) in coordination with the wallet management team
  • Run onboarding of new brokers, entities/SPVs, and methodology changes with full system integration
  • Oversee central functions such as FX exposure management and share class hedging

Collaboration

  • Work with asset class specialists to understand strategies and represent them to external counterparties
  • Partner with senior management on business profitability assessment
  • Coordinate with the wallet management team on liquidity impacts from exposure changes
  • Liaise with the repo team on counterparty exposure and constraints
  • Support carry trading strategies on liquidity terms and sizing
  • Collaborate with quants and operations on onboarding new asset classes or counterparties

Skillset Required

  • Risk and markets background (5+ years)
  • Strong experience in risk management within financial markets, ideally within:
    • Market Risk, Counterparty Risk, Prime Brokerage or Financing Risk at banks
    • OR Treasury / Liquidity / Funding roles within hedge funds or asset managers
  • Ability to assess portfolio risk across derivatives and financing exposures
  • Experience covering a broad range of asset classes, including
    • Equities, Credit, FX, Rates, Commodities and Volatility
  • Understanding of cross-asset risk dynamics and portfolio-level exposures
  • Strong understanding of
    • Margin methodologies and collateral frameworks
    • Counterparty exposures and financing structures
    • Bank balance sheet and capital constraints (e.g. funding, leverage considerations)
  • Comfortable engaging with brokers and counterparties on financing and commercial terms
  • Ability to assess and model
    • Firm-wide liquidity and funding requirements
    • Capital usage and balance sheet efficiency
  • Experience analysing
    • Profitability, financing costs, or capital allocation across strategies
  • Strong understanding of how risk, liquidity and profitability interact
  • Strong analytical skillset with the ability to
    • Work with large datasets
    • Build or interpret models related to liquidity, exposure and stress
  • Comfortable operating in a multi-asset, multi-entity environment
  • Strong stakeholder management across
    • Trading, risk, treasury, operations and external counterparties
  • Ability to communicate complex risk, liquidity and profitability concepts clearly to senior stakeholders
  • Organized, adaptable and comfortable managing multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment

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Posted: May 18th, 2026