Head of Investment Risk - Credit Products

About the role

This individual will provide independent, forward-looking risk insight across portfolios, combining deep credit expertise with quantitative portfolio analysis. The successful candidate will have significant buy-side risk experience and the ability to translate complex portfolio and market dynamics into actionable recommendations for investment professionals and senior management.

Client: Well-established global financial institution, located in Midtown, NY.

Responsibilities

• Lead investment risk oversight across credit portfolios, with particular focus on structured credit, private credit, leveraged loans and high-yield investments
• Partner closely with Portfolio Managers on portfolio construction, asset allocation, and risk positioning
• Identify and assess emerging portfolio, credit, market, and liquidity risks
• Develop and implement portfolio-level risk frameworks, analytics, and models
• Evaluate individual positions and overall portfolios across measures including concentration, volatility, correlations and other key risk factors
• Conduct scenario analysis and stress testing to assess portfolio vulnerabilities
• Develop and monitor key risk indicators, thresholds, and portfolio risk metrics
• Monitor macroeconomic, credit, and market developments and assess their potential portfolio impact
• Provide independent risk perspectives and recommendations to Portfolio Managers and senior stakeholders
• Support risk analysis for new products, investment strategies, and complex or difficult-to-value securities
• Work with large datasets to identify trends, concentrations, and other meaningful portfolio insights
• Develop and present clear, actionable risk analysis to senior management
• Partner across investment, trading, research, technology, and control functions
• Manage and develop junior members of the risk team

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant investment, portfolio, or financial risk experience, ideally within an asset manager, hedge fund, pension fund, insurance investment platform, or other buy-side environment
• Strong experience evaluating credit portfolios, including meaningful exposure to structured credit
• Knowledge of products such as ABS, CMBS, CLOs, private credit, leveraged loans, and high-yield bonds
• Strong understanding of portfolio construction, asset allocation, and investment risk management
• Experience with portfolio risk analytics, including stress testing, VaR, correlations, concentration analysis, and related risk measures
• Ability to identify emerging risks and communicate their potential impact to investment professionals and senior stakeholders
• Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities
• Proficiency with Python, SQL, Bloomberg, and Excel
• Experience presenting sophisticated risk analysis to senior decision-makers
• Prior experience managing or mentoring junior team members preferred
• Bachelor's degree in finance, mathematics, risk management, business analytics or a related discipline

Pay

All-in compensation ranging from $300,000 - $675,000.