Description

Location: London
Sector: Asset Management / Hedge Fund / Investment Management
Experience Required: 10+ Years
Reporting To: Head of Risk / Chief Risk Officer

Overview

We are partnering with a leading buy-side investment firm seeking an experienced Equity Risk Manager to provide independent oversight and challenge across equity investment strategies. This position will play a key role in partnering with Portfolio Managers, influencing portfolio construction decisions, and shaping the firm's broader investment risk framework.

The successful candidate will bring deep equity risk expertise, strong front-office engagement experience, and a proven track record of operating in a senior, highly commercial risk management capacity within a buy-side environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide independent oversight of equity portfolio risks across long-only, long-short, and multi-asset investment strategies.
• Act as a senior risk partner to Portfolio Managers and investment teams, providing constructive challenge and actionable risk insights.
• Monitor and assess portfolio exposures including factor, style, sector, geographic, currency, liquidity, and concentration risks.
• Lead portfolio stress testing and scenario analysis, evaluating potential impacts from macroeconomic, geopolitical, and market events.
• Deliver detailed risk analytics and recommendations to investment teams, senior management, and risk committees.
• Oversee risk limit frameworks and ensure adherence to investment guidelines.
• Identify emerging market risks and communicate findings effectively to key stakeholders.
• Review portfolio construction decisions and assess alignment with intended risk budgets.
• Drive enhancements to risk methodologies, frameworks, reporting, and risk governance processes.
• Collaborate with Technology, Quantitative Research, and Data teams to improve risk analytics infrastructure and automation capabilities.
• Mentor junior risk professionals and contribute to the development of the wider risk function.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of Investment Risk, Portfolio Risk, or Market Risk experience within a buy-side organisation.
• Demonstrable experience partnering directly with Portfolio Managers and senior investment stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of fundamental equity investment strategies and portfolio construction.
• Experience supporting global equity, long-short equity, multi-asset, or quantitative equity portfolios.
• Proven ability to influence investment decisions through robust risk analysis and challenge.
• Experience presenting risk findings at investment committees, risk committees, and senior leadership forums.
• Strong understanding of factor modelling, portfolio optimisation, performance attribution, and risk decomposition techniques.

Technical Skills

• Advanced knowledge of Barra, Axioma, MSCI RiskManager, Aladdin, FactSet, Bloomberg AIM, or similar risk platforms.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or SQL.
• Experience developing automated risk reporting and analytics solutions.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis capabilities.
• Strong understanding of quantitative risk measures including VaR, tracking error, beta, stress testing, and scenario analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• CFA, FRM, CAIA, or equivalent professional qualification preferred.

Key Competencies

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to confidently engage with and challenge senior investment professionals.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of investment processes.
• Leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• Highly analytical with strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment.

Preferred Background

Candidates are likely to come from:

• Asset Management firms
• Hedge Funds
• Pension Funds
• Sovereign Wealth Funds
• Investment Management firms
• Multi-Asset Investment Platforms

This opportunity is well suited to a senior investment risk professional seeking a highly visible, PM-facing role where they can influence investment decisions, shape risk frameworks, and operate as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across the investment business.