Hargreaves Lansdown | Head of Investment and Market Risk Oversight

Responsibilities

• Sponsorship: We are unable to provide employment sponsorship for this role.
• Reporting to the Chief Risk Officer, you’ll lead HL’s independent second-line oversight of investment and market risk across our funds, products, investment solutions and own balance sheet.
• You’ll set the direction for our Investment Risk Framework, provide authoritative challenge to senior leaders and Boards, and ensure material risks are understood and managed within appetite.
• Combining deep technical expertise with commercial judgement, you’ll build a forward-looking capability that protects clients, informs strategic decisions and helps HL respond confidently to changing markets, regulation and emerging macro trends.
• Set the strategy for, own and continually develop HL’s Investment Risk Framework, methodologies, standards and analytical toolkit.
• Lead independent second-line oversight and evidence-based challenge across investment, market, liquidity, treasury, counterparty, credit and concentration risk.
• Shape risk appetite, limits, metrics and stress-testing approaches, ensuring breaches, concentrations and emerging trends are identified and escalated clearly.
• Provide proactive risk oversight for new and changing funds, products and investment solutions before launch.
• Advise the Chief Risk Officer, Chief Investment Officer, senior executives, governance committees and Boards through clear, decision-useful reporting and insight.
• Track market and macroeconomic developments, translating complex quantitative analysis into practical implications for clients, portfolios and HL’s balance sheet.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team of investment-risk specialists while strengthening data, technology and automation across the capability.
• Help@hand, including confidential mental health counselling and remote GP support

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of multi-asset investment-risk methodologies, including market and liquidity risk, portfolio construction, asset allocation, performance and portfolio risk drivers.
• Strong understanding of funds, fund-of-funds structures, underlying holdings, derivatives and the relationship between investment risk and performance.
• Experience of firm-level market, treasury and balance-sheet risk, including counterparty, credit and concentration risk.
• Proven experience leading and developing specialist risk professionals.
• Experience with institutional risk platforms such as MSCI BarraOne, LiquidityMetrics or comparable analytical tools.
• Experience of investment-risk governance involving Boards, investment committees or regulated fund-management entities, and of developing analytics, dashboards or automation.

Hargreaves Lansdown

Hargreaves Lansdown is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance). In its own words: "Hargreaves Lansdown is an award-winning investment and active saving service that can save you time and money - explore our ISAs, pensions, investments and active savings accounts."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Bristol - Welcome Building.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance