Director, Risk & Data

The Director, Risk & Data has the following main responsibilities: 

• Lead a global team of risk analysts responsible for producing timely, flexible, and accurate risk and performance analytics for use by external clients and by Innocap’s Investment Team. 

• Manage daily production, act as escalation and coordinate resolution across risk and performance reporting lifecycle. 

• Establish and enforce clear accountability frameworks and performance expectations across all levels of the Risk & Data organization, ensuring alignment, ownership, and operational excellence. 

• Design and enforce rigorous quality control procedures tailored to the nuances of specific hedge fund strategies, asset classes and risk methodologies. 

• Lead and oversee the Risk & Data onboarding process in close partnership with Platform Management, Platform Operations, and Investment Team, ensuring alignment on expectations, ensuring a detailed understanding of each investment strategy, and the unique operational and structural nuances of each dedicated managed account launch to ensure effectiveness of daily risk and performance process. 

• Ensure risk and performance analytics are suitable for consumption by sophisticated institutional investors and senior stakeholders across investment and risk. 

• Identify and drive workflow enhancements, automation initiatives and system improvements to increase efficiency, streamline data reconciliation and anomaly resolution across end-to-end daily risk and performance process. 

• Coordinate cross-functional resolution with Quant Team, Market Data Team, Technology and Investment team. 

• Represent the Risk & Data function in senior leadership discussions and ensure strategic alignment. 

• Partner with senior leaders in Investment, Operations, Accounting, Technology, and Platform Management on cross-functional initiatives. 

PRIMARY QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE 

• 10+ years of experience in investment risk management, quantitative analytics or data governance within alternative investments or institutional asset management. 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, Economics, Data Science or a related quantitative field; CFA, FRM or PRM preferred. 

• Proven success designing and executing global risk data strategies and leading large-scale transformation initiatives to enhance transparency, controls and efficiency. 

• Demonstrated leadership of global, cross-functional teams with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across Investment, Technology and Operations in a matrix environment. 

• Deep expertise in holdings-based risk platforms (Axioma, BlackRock Aladdin, RiskMetrics, Barra, FactSet) and strong proficiency with Bloomberg and Refinitiv Eikon. 

• Extensive knowledge of instruments and pricing mechanics across equity, fixed income, structured credit, futures, forwards, swaps, options and exotic derivatives. 

• Deep understanding of hedge fund strategies including equity long/short, quant market neutral, event driven, relative value, commodities, global macro, credit, tail protect and multi-strategy. 

• Advanced understanding of holdings-based risk analytics, including Value at Risk, Stress Testing, Sensitivity Analysis, Greeks and other ex-ante analytics. 

• Excellent ability to synthesize complex analyses for executive audiences, communicate strategic recommendations and drive multi-country initiatives with ownership and accountability. 

• Highly proactive, detail oriented and execution driven with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple strategic priorities in a fast-paced environment.