Estee Advisors - Senior Group Risk Management Role

Job location: [{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Gurgaon/Gurugram","addressCountry":"IN"}}] Work arrangement: Employment type: FULL_TIME Salary: "" Experience requirements: {"monthsOfExperience":120,"educational":{"credentialCategory":"bachelor degree"}} Education requirements: "" 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.