Job title: Risk Manager

Location: Central London (Hybrid)

The chosen candidate will be tasked with overseeing, developing, and managing investment risk activities and procedures. They will bear responsibility for providing advice, monitoring, planning, and reporting on risk and controls activities as assigned by the Chief Risk Officer (CRO).

Job role:

The ideal candidate will operate adeptly within established oversight procedures for investment risk activities, demonstrating comprehensive knowledge across various types of investment risks, including counterparty and market risks. This role entails a crucial responsibility for second-line risk oversight, specifically in relation to asset allocation. The candidate will skillfully assess and manage both financial and operational risks within this contextWorking with the Investment team to oversee and challenge the onboarding and controls of new additions to the portfolio, assets classes and fund managersWorking in collaboration with the Compliance team, agreeing appropriate challenge and monitoring processes regarding investment limits, and overseeing compliance with investment mandatesSupporting the development of the strategy for; risk management framework, controls framework, risk appetite methodology and organisation-wide risk reportingSupporting the design and delivery of an integrated risk management approach to key outsourcers

Skills needed:

Experience of Risk & Compliance Management systemsExtensive experience of managing and improving effective risk and control frameworks Team leadershipExtensive experience of different strategic approaches to risk and control frameworks in financial services organisations