We are helping a Hedge Fund hire a Risk Officer in London, to oversee risk for our Long/Short equity and macro business. Your remit will include management of investment risk, counterparty risk, risk infrastructure, technology enablement, risk reporting and risk governance.
Responsibilities
Investment Risk
- Definition, calibration and maintenance of fund & SMA risk limits
- Intraday monitoring of trading/PnL/risk exposure
- Daily review and remediation of Partner fund and SMA breaches
- Manage risk breaches and communicate with Partners to manage execution of remediation activities.
Counterparty Risk
- Build and maintain counterparty risk infrastructure for all funds with Technology & Operations teams
- Build and monitor basic reports and undertake daily reviews.
- Monitor PB margins, unencumbered cash and other PB exposures and assist operations in managing margin calls
- Continued development of risk analytics infrastructure, including:
- Historical VaR and scenarios
- Liquidity analysis
- Build and maintain periodic and ad hoc fund / PM / SMAs risk reports
- Build and maintain Investment/Risk Committee dashboards and risk reports for senior management
- Assist Compliance and Investor Relations as required with regulatory reporting, risk/performance/exposure queries, and any other data request required to support marketing activities and compliance reporting obligations.
Requirements
- Significant experience (7 years+) managing risk within a fast-paced financial services business
- Excellent knowledge of financial markets with deep understanding of a broad set of asset classes including equities and derivatives, as well as credit and fixed income/rates
- Experience developing and implementing portfolio and position level hedging solutions
- Experience driving the development of firm wide risk policies and risk management frameworks
- Deep understanding and experience with Axioma / Barra equity factor models
- Quantitative/highly numerate background
- Strong Python skills, experience with AI tools (Claude Code a plus)
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