Interim Head of Investment Risk

The Company is seeking an Interim Head of Investment Risk to lead an established risk function and shape its strategic direction. Responsibilities include providing independent oversight and constructive challenge across investment activities and portfolios, assessing and strengthening the investment risk framework, and ensuring emerging risks are identified, understood, and escalated. The role will build effective relationships with senior investment professionals while maintaining appropriate independence, and provide clear risk insight to senior management and governance forums. It also includes supporting regulatory and governance engagement and leading, coaching, and developing an experienced team. Candidates should bring substantial investment risk experience in asset management or a comparable investment environment, including leadership of an investment risk function and broad exposure to investment strategies and asset classes. They should understand portfolio risks, effective independent oversight, and senior governance and committee structures. Strong judgement, credibility with executive and external stakeholders, and the ability to deliver constructive challenge are essential. The ideal candidate combines people leadership and team-development skills with a pragmatic, collaborative approach, and can bring clarity and structure to an evolving environment; experience across both first and second lines of defense is preferred.