Interim Head of Enterprise Risk

About this role

Risk Consultant – Operational Resilience & Enterprise Risk

12-month FTC | London | 3 days per week in office | Immediate availability required

We are working with a leading UK investment management firm to appoint an experienced Risk Consultant to its second-line Risk function on an initial 12-month fixed-term contract.

This is a broad Manager-level risk role, but operational resilience experience gained specifically within an asset or investment management environment is a prerequisite. We are therefore particularly interested in individuals who can demonstrate hands-on experience of developing, embedding or overseeing an operational resilience framework within an investment manager.

The successful candidate will take meaningful ownership of the firm's operational resilience framework, including important business services and process mapping, impact tolerances, scenario testing, operational resilience MI and reporting, and oversight of business continuity and disaster recovery. They will also work with senior stakeholders and the firm's crisis-management arrangements to provide effective second-line assurance over resilience.

Beyond operational resilience, the role offers considerable breadth across enterprise and operational risk, including risk and control assessment, oversight of operational risks and controls, KRIs, risk events, policy development and the continued evolution of the firm's second-line assurance framework. The position also incorporates elements of CASS oversight and broader regulatory risk activity.

There is an investment-risk dimension to the position. Candidates do not need to be investment-risk specialists, but should be comfortable operating within an investment environment and providing effective second-line oversight and challenge across areas such as liquidity, counterparty risk, leverage, pricing, stress testing and investment-risk models. The underlying JD also includes ICARA/Wind Down Plan activity and AIFMD Annex IV reporting.

The attraction of the role is its breadth and autonomy. The Risk team operates with a generalist model, giving the successful individual exposure across the wider risk framework rather than restricting them to a single discipline. The role reports directly to the Head of Risk and sits within the firm's second-line function.

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate

• Recent, substantive operational resilience experience within asset/investment management – essential
• Strong broader operational and enterprise risk experience within an FCA-regulated investment environment
• Practical experience of important business services, mapping, impact tolerances and scenario testing
• Experience providing effective second-line oversight, assurance and challenge
• Strong stakeholder-management skills and the ability to work autonomously at Manager level
• Ideally, exposure to CASS and/or investment-risk oversight
• A minimum of approximately seven years' relevant risk/oversight experience, including Manager-level responsibility, in line with the underlying specification
• Immediate or very short-notice availability, given the requirement to appoint quickly

12-month FTC | London | 3 days per week in the office

Please note: applicants must have hands-on operational resilience experience gained within an asset/investment manager and be immediately available. Sponsorship is not available.