Technology Governance & Risk Analyst

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

Risk Infrastructure/Analytics

Continued development of risk analytics infrastructure, including:

Historical VaR and scenarios

Factor risk analytics/ axioma models

Liquidity analysis

Risk Reporting

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 communication skills

Strong Python skills, experience with AI tools (Claude Code a plus)