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.
