Head of Investment and Market Risk Oversight

Location: Bristol, United Kingdom (BS2); hybrid working with regular office presence required for senior stakeholder engagement and team leadership.

Company

hirify.global is a UK investment and savings platform providing personalised guidance, investment products and financial expertise.

What you will do

• Set the strategy and continuously develop the 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 risks.
• Define risk appetite, limits, metrics and stress-testing approaches, escalating breaches, concentrations and emerging trends.
• Provide 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 decision-useful reporting and analysis.
• Lead and develop investment-risk specialists while strengthening data, technology and automation across the function.

Requirements

• Significant senior-level experience in investment, portfolio or quantitative risk within asset management, investment management or a comparable regulated financial-services environment.
• Deep knowledge of multi-asset investment-risk methodologies, including market and liquidity risk, portfolio construction, asset allocation, performance and portfolio risk drivers.
• Practical expertise in scenario analysis, stress testing, quantitative risk measurement, risk appetite, limits and monitoring frameworks.
• Strong understanding of funds, fund-of-funds structures, underlying holdings, derivatives and the relationship between investment risk and performance.
• Experience with firm-level market, treasury and balance-sheet risk, including counterparty, credit and concentration risk.
• Detailed knowledge of the investment-risk regulatory environment, including UCITS and AIFMD requirements.
• Strong record of influencing senior stakeholders, constructively challenging decisions and translating complex analysis for executive and Board audiences.
• Proven experience leading and developing specialist risk professionals.
• Employment sponsorship is not available for this role.

Nice to have

• CFA, FRM, PRM or a comparable professional qualification.
• Experience with institutional risk platforms such as MSCI BarraOne, LiquidityMetrics or comparable analytical tools.
• Experience with investment-risk governance involving Boards, investment committees or regulated fund-management entities, and with developing analytics, dashboards or automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid and flexible working options; the role may be available on a flexible-working or part-time basis by arrangement.
• Discretionary annual bonus, annual pay review, 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and an additional Christmas closure day.
• Enhanced parental leave, pension contributions of up to 11%, income protection, life insurance and private medical insurance.
• Healthcare cash plans, health screening, mental-health counselling and remote GP support.
• On-site gym, Wellhub access, travel-to-work schemes, bike storage, shower facilities, subsidised refreshments and two paid volunteering days annually.
• Inclusive employer committed to accessible recruitment and adjustments throughout the hiring process.

Hiring process

• Three-stage process consisting of technical, behavioural and presentation-based interviews.