Senior Risk Management Group

Role Overview

We are seeking a senior risk management professional to provide independent, strategic oversight of risk across Estee Advisors trading, investment, and asset management businesses.

The role will cover high-frequency trading, broking, clearing, institutional businesses, SMAs/AIFs and international trading and investment activities.

The individual will bring deep financial markets expertise, strong quantitative and analytical capabilities, and the judgement to independently evaluate trading and investment strategies. A core responsibility will be to guide capital allocation by combining risk and return profiles across strategies and businesses.

This Group-level role will partner closely with the CEO, business heads, trading, investment, and finance leaders to support informed risk-taking, disciplined capital deployment and robust risk governance.

Required Expertise & Qualifications

• Extensive experience in risk management across financial services, trading, investments, or asset management.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, investment strategies, trading businesses, and risk-return frameworks.
• Deep understanding of risks specific to high-frequency and algorithmic trading.
• Strong technical, mathematical and analytical capabilities; an engineering or mathematics background and/or FRM certification would be desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to independently evaluate complex trading and investment strategies using quantitative analysis and sound risk judgement.
• Proven ability to guide capital allocation by combining risk and return profiles across strategies and businesses is essential.
• Significant experience with financial trading, investment, or asset management firms; experience with leading multinational financial institutions would be preferred.
• Prior experience leading or overseeing a risk management function would be desirable.
• Experience in compliance, including SEBI requirements and international regulatory frameworks, would be desirable but is not essential.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to engage credibly with senior management, business leaders and technical teams.

Key Responsibilities

Group Risk Oversight & Governance

• Provide independent oversight of the identification, assessment, monitoring and mitigation of risks across the Group’s trading and investment businesses.
• Develop and continuously strengthen the Group’s risk governance framework, risk appetite, policies, limits and escalation mechanisms.
• Establish risk metrics and dashboards to provide senior management with a consolidated view of key exposures.
• Identify aggregate and cross-strategy risks, including concentrations and correlations across businesses and portfolios.
• Provide independent risk perspectives to the CEO and senior management on material trading, investment and capital allocation decisions.

Trading & Investment Risk

• Oversee risks across trading and investment activities, including HFT, algorithmic trading, broking, clearing, institutional equities, SMAs, AIFs and other investment strategies.
• Evaluate market, liquidity, counterparty, credit and execution risks, including risks specific to high-frequency trading.
• Independently assess the risk-return profiles of internal and external trading and investment strategies.
• Evaluate strategy performance and potential downside under different market conditions.
• Challenge assumptions, risk limits and risk-taking decisions where appropriate.
• Provide risk input into new trading strategies, investment products, markets and mandates.

Capital Allocation & Risk-Adjusted Returns

• Guide capital allocation across strategies and businesses by combining their risk and return profiles.
• Evaluate expected returns, downside risks, capital requirements and diversification benefits to inform allocation decisions.
• Assess the contribution of individual strategies to the Group’s overall risk and return profile.
• Recommend capital allocation and reallocation based on strategy performance, changing risk exposures and market conditions.
• Partner with the CEO, business heads and finance leadership to support disciplined capital deployment within the Group’s risk appetite.

Risk Reporting & Review

• Develop meaningful risk reporting for the CEO and Management Team, highlighting material exposures, performance, risk-adjusted returns and capital utilization.
• Establish clear escalation mechanisms for risk limit breaches and material changes in strategy risk profiles.
• Periodically review the effectiveness of risk frameworks, limits and capital allocation approaches.
• Promote consistent risk discipline across trading and investment businesses.

Leadership Expectations

• Operate with a high degree of independence, integrity and intellectual rigour.
• Have the confidence and credibility to challenge trading, investment and capital allocation decisions when warranted.
• Bring strong commercial understanding alongside disciplined risk judgement.
• Translate complex quantitative and investment risks into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
• Recognize the distinct risk-return profiles of each business while maintaining a consolidated Group perspective.
• Act as a trusted risk partner to the CEO and business heads, supporting informed decision-making while maintaining appropriate independence.