Head of Portfolio & Investment Risk
Location: Abu Dhabi
About the Company
Our client is an investment management conglomerate backed by a SWF, with diversified portfolio. It takes an integrated approach to investing, building and managing assets and projects across a broad mix of sectors - from infrastructure, real estate and utilities, to transport and supply chains, agriculture, healthcare and financial investments.
Key Responsibilities
- Build out the risk methodology and toolkit for the portfolio from scratch, defining how risk is measured and monitored as the platform scales across asset classes
- Keep the underlying risk models sharp, testing and refining them as the portfolio evolves
- Provide a forward-looking and backward-looking read on portfolio and strategy risk, flagging what's changing and why
- Sit alongside Investment Teams and the Investment Committee on new deals, bringing an independent risk lens to the table
- Stress-test the portfolio and specific investments under different scenarios, with a focus on both returns and liquidity
- Feed risk insight into the broader performance review cycle
- Balance setting the overall risk agenda with staying hands-on in the detail day to day
Requirements
- 20+ years in portfolio or investment risk, with strong quantitative grounding
- Broad asset-class exposure - private and public equity, infrastructure and beyond
- Skilled in multi-asset-class modelling (factor-based and fundamental)
- Deep experience in Total Portfolio Approach, Strategic Asset Allocation, scenario analysis and stress-testing
- Comes from a mature, established risk function, with international exposure a plus