Selby Jennings
Director - Equities - Front Office Risk - Tier 1
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Director / Executive Director, Equities Portfolio Risk
Location: London
Business Area: Global Equities
Reporting Line: Global Equities Leadership
Overview
A leading global investment bank is seeking a senior front-office risk professional to join its Global Equities franchise. This is a highly visible role embedded within the business, partnering directly with senior trading leadership to provide portfolio-level risk oversight, challenge and strategic insight across the global equities platform.
The role sits above individual trading desks and focuses on identifying, assessing and mitigating risks across the franchise as a whole. Operating as a trusted adviser to senior management, the successful individual will help shape risk-taking decisions, portfolio construction, hedging strategy and risk governance across Equities.
This is not a traditional Market Risk position. The role is business-facing, commercially oriented and centred on enhancing front-office ownership of risk. A proven background in trading is considered essential.
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio Risk Leadership
- Conduct comprehensive portfolio-level stress testing and scenario analysis across the global equities business.
- Assess concentrations, correlations, tail risks and cross-product exposures.
- Review franchise-wide hedging strategies and identify residual risks.
- Provide challenge and recommendations around portfolio construction, positioning and risk-reward trade-offs.
- Support trading leadership through periods of heightened market volatility and uncertainty.
Strategic Risk Oversight
- Identify thematic, structural and systemic risks impacting the equities franchise.
- Analyse the interaction of risks across businesses including:
- Cash Equities
- Equity Derivatives
- Delta One
- Equity Financing
- Structured Equity Products
- Volatility and Exotics
- Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS)
- Assess emerging market, liquidity and event-driven risks that may impact the broader franchise.
- Partner with business leaders on mitigating actions and strategic risk initiatives.
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Governance & Deep Dive Reviews
- Lead structured risk reviews across trading businesses and regions.
- Provide insight into significant risk drivers and changing portfolio dynamics.
- Ensure key risk themes are understood and escalated appropriately.
- Contribute to the continued enhancement of the Equities risk governance framework.
Reporting & Analytics
- Own and evolve management information and risk reporting for senior stakeholders.
- Develop forward-looking risk analytics that support business decision-making.
- Drive consistency, quality and transparency of risk data across the franchise.
- Partner closely with Technology, Quantitative Analytics, Finance and Risk teams to improve reporting capabilities.
Limit, Capital & Regulatory Oversight
- Coordinate the monitoring of key risk, capital and regulatory constraints across the global platform.
- Ensure management has a clear understanding of portfolio utilisation and emerging pressures.
- Support decision-making around capital deployment, balance sheet consumption and risk capacity.
- Act as a key liaison between Trading, Market Risk, Finance and Regulatory stakeholders.
Senior Stakeholder Management
- Partner directly with Global Heads of Trading, desk heads and senior management.
- Provide independent challenge while maintaining strong business relationships.
- Present portfolio risk themes, stress scenarios and strategic recommendations to senior governance forums.
- Influence decision-making across the franchise through commercial insight and analytical rigour.
Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will combine deep equities expertise with the credibility and commercial judgement required to challenge senior trading management.
Essential Experience
- Previous front-office trading experience within Equities is a non-negotiable requirement.
- Significant experience gained within:
- Equities Trading
- Equity Derivatives Trading
- Delta One Trading
- Equity Financing
- Front Office / In-Business Risk
- Portfolio Risk Management
- Strong understanding of portfolio-level risk dynamics, including:
- Hedging strategies
- Correlation risk
- Stress behaviour
- Event risk
- Concentration analysis
- Portfolio construction
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Technical & Commercial Skills
- Deep knowledge of global equities products and market structure.
- Strong quantitative and analytical capability.
- Ability to interpret and challenge complex risk models, analytics and stress scenarios.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Track record of influencing senior decision-makers in a trading environment.
Personal Attributes
- Commercially minded and pragmatic.
- Credible adviser to senior traders and business leaders.
- Comfortable operating at Managing Director and Global Head level.
- Able to balance challenge with partnership in a fast-moving front-office environment.
What This Role Is Not
- Not a traditional Market Risk role.
- Not a second-line control function.
- Not focused on day-to-day desk-level risk monitoring.
- Not a product-specific or siloed risk position.
- Not primarily regulatory or oversight-driven.
Why This Opportunity?
This role offers the opportunity to operate at the centre of one of the bank's most significant trading businesses, partnering directly with global leadership to shape how risk is understood, managed and deployed across the Equities franchise. It combines commercial decision-making, portfolio risk management and senior stakeholder engagement in a genuinely strategic front-office role.
Key requirement: Candidates must have previously held a trading seat within Equities and possess the credibility to engage with senior trading leadership as a peer and trusted adviser.
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