Director and head of Strategic Risk (Portfolio level) recruitment
Key responsibilities:
Building up a strategic portfolio risk management team. Develop strategic understanding of risk and return profile for a global public and private equity portfolio with focus on Asia. Portfolio stress testing and linking macro economic and thematic indicators or forecasts to impact on portfolio performance. Develop country, sector or thematic drill downs that ensure nuances in macro insights get translated to each theme, country and sector and reflected in the bottom up screening and asset selection of specialised investment teams. Develop and maintain risk dashboards and framework of early warning indicators, and support their drill down and application. Able to link thematic or macro insights to insights for major portfolio companies (as part of our engagement with boards as an active shareholder, and in decisions on divestment and investment).
Liaise with front office partners in our country and sector teams, and with central strategy, portfolio management and financial planning functions. Partner to senior management in relating portfolio level insights to business impact.
Enhancement of standard portfolio reports for risk and performance reporting and benchmarking, and oversight of implementation of enhancements.
Adjacencies to currency risk, credit risk, country risk and reputational risk management.
Key Attributes:
- Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to influence and work as partner with front office teams
- Maturity and influencing skills to partner with senior management and influence
- A good communicator and strong presenter to explain complex issues in an easy to understand manner to a wide group of in-house audience.
- A team leader for his/her quantitative team, and a team player within the larger risk team.
- Must possess strong problem-solving skills and be able to work in fast evolving landscapes. Must be able to link quantitative insights to business recommendations and impact
- Flexible to adapt to changing scope of work
- 'Hungry' and able to work under tight deadlines
Singapore Employment Agency Licence No: 07C2942
