[Hiring] Fractional Chief Risk Officer, Investments @Arootah

Role Description

Arootah is searching for an experienced Chief Risk Officer, Investments to consult to our highly prestigious client base. As a consultant, you will work with our Hedge Fund and Family Office clients to provide expert advice. Having previously served in the role of Chief Risk Officer, Investments, you have specific, hands-on experience building, maintaining, and overseeing the risk management efforts specifically focused on the investment and portfolio management activity of a leading Hedge Fund or Family Office.

Core Areas of Expertise

• Provide advice and guidance to Arootah clients on investment and portfolio management risk needs.
• Consult with leading Hedge Funds and Family Offices.
• Develop realistic and effective monthly action plans.
• Identify internal and contextual roadblocks.
• Break apart goals into actionable steps.
• Devise a plan of action for each goal.
• Provide clients with resources for implementing their action plans.
• Implement policies, procedures, and control measures.
• Review, analyze, and report on client tools and resources to ensure industry best practices.
• Evaluate clients’ advancement toward goal actualization through KPIs and scoring matrices.
• Maintain and share detailed and accurate records of consulting results.
• Analyze portfolio and investment risk using various quantitative models/techniques.
• Develop, maintain, and update investment risk framework tools.
• Identify and evaluate risks, and run stress tests across various asset classes.
• Perform market and credit risk reporting and analysis of all investment activity.
• Monitor exposures and utilization against limits, and P&L arising from market moves.
• Assist in enhancing methodology for calculating, monitoring, and managing risk.
• Create and run optimization models for Portfolio Managers.
• Design and generate periodic risk reports for senior management and stakeholders.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis requiring independent research and programming skills.
• Participate in the identification and evaluation of new risk strategies and technology.
• Measure, monitor, and independently assess risks in investment activities.
• Monitor stress, performance, counterparty, and liquidity metrics against thresholds.
• Help develop ESG metrics monitoring.
• Ensure compliance with risk oversight processes, policies, and procedures.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in a quantitative discipline such as Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related field from an accredited university.
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), or similar professional designation is desired.
• MBA or other relevant graduate degrees in a quantitative discipline is a plus.
• 8+ years of relevant experience at a hedge fund, family office, or investment management firm serving in the role of Chief Risk Officer.
• 3-5 years of additional experience in risk management, trading, portfolio management, or data science role.
• Familiarity with risk analysis applications such as MSCI’s BarraOne, Blackrock Aladdin, FactSet, or similar.
• Strong quantitative/statistical knowledge with the ability to work on systems and databases (SQL, Access).
• Proven programming skills (R, MATLAB, Python, VBA, C#, etc.).
• Product knowledge and quantitative skills with a broad range of asset classes and investment strategies.
• Knowledge of market risk methodologies such as VaR, stress, and sensitivity analysis.
• Strong familiarity with asset/liability management.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Compensation

• $250 - $500 an hour

Important Note

This opportunity is to join Arootah’s advisor network and is not tied to a specific active engagement. Advisors are engaged on an as-needed basis, based on client demand and fit.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.