Chief Risk Officer - Investment

Confidential; England; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm in England is seeking a Chief Risk Officer (CRO) to oversee investment risk across various assets, ensuring sound risk governance and decision-making. The role requires a senior leader with extensive experience in private equity and structured investments, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to communicate effectively with Boards and regulators. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape risk strategy while enabling sustainable investment returns.

Qualifications

• Senior investment risk leader with extensive experience in asset management.
• Deep knowledge of complex investments and structured products.
• Proven ability in high-stakes investment decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead the investment risk framework across various asset classes.
• Oversee underwriting, valuation methodologies, and risk assessments.
• Ensure adherence to risk governance and regulatory expectations.

Skills

Investment risk assessment

Commercial judgment

Challenge investment assumptions

Regulatory compliance

Portfolio risk management

Job description

Role Overview

The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) will have primary responsibility for the independent oversight of investment risk across the organization’s principal investment, alternative asset, and proprietary capital activities. The role serves as a critical counterbalance to investment origination and execution, ensuring disciplined risk-taking, robust underwriting standards, and portfolio resilience across market cycles.

Acting as a trusted advisor to senior management, investment leadership, and the Board, the CRO will shape risk philosophy, challenge investment assumptions, and safeguard capital while enabling sustainable long-term returns.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the investment risk framework covering private equity, private credit, real assets, structured investments, and complex transactions.
• Provide independent challenge on deal underwriting, valuation methodologies, financial modeling assumptions, and downside scenarios.
• Oversee portfolio-level risk management, including concentration limits, sector and geographic exposures, leverage, and liquidity profiles.
• Assess and monitor investment lifecycle risk from origination through execution, portfolio management, and exit.
• Review and approve investment risk limits, stress testing, and scenario analysis across asset classes.
• Serve as a core member of the Investment Committee, providing clear, objective risk assessments to inform capital allocation decisions.
• Oversee residual banking and balance sheet risk only to the extent relevant to investment activities and capital deployment.
• Ensure risk governance, reporting, and controls meet regulatory expectations without constraining investment agility.

Ideal Profile

• Senior investment risk leader from an asset manager, private equity firm, private credit platform, investment bank principal investing team, or sovereign investment entity.
• Deep experience evaluating complex investments, structured products, and illiquid assets across multiple market cycles.
• Strong commercial judgment with the confidence to challenge senior investors while remaining solutions-oriented.
• Proven ability to operate in international or emerging-market investment environments.
• Credibility with Boards, investment committees, and regulators in high-stakes decision-making settings.