Risk Officer

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.

Please double check you have the right level of experience and qualifications by reading the full overview of this opportunity below.ResponsibilitiesInvestment 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 xwzovoh 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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