Vice President, Core Risk Governance, Private Markets

Overview

Senior Core Risk Management leader based in Mumbai, responsible for risk oversight and leadership across Private Financing Solutions and the broader Private Markets platform, and for building the Mumbai presence of the Core Risk Governance team.

What you'll do

• Provide risk oversight and leadership for portfolios and investment activities within Private Financing Solutions.
• Partner with risk managers to understand investment strategies, transaction structures, underlying risk drivers, portfolio construction, and emerging areas of concern.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of analytical initiatives, from problem definition and solution design through implementation, adoption, monitoring, and production support.
• Help establish or significantly scale the PFS risk capability while maintaining strong connectivity with the wider Private Markets and global risk organization.
• Translate complex investment-risk and business requirements into scalable data, analytics, and automation solutions.
• Serve as the senior Core Risk Management leader in Mumbai and establish a strong local presence aligned with the wider Gurgaon-based organization.
• Provide direct or matrix leadership to Mumbai-based analysts, associates, interns, and future hires, ensuring clear accountability and effective integration into their respective Core Risk Management teams.
• Assess emerging technologies and AI capabilities, balancing innovation and speed with reliability, safety, governance, and appropriate human oversight.
• Ensure that risk methodologies and analytics are transparent, explainable, secure, appropriately governed, and aligned with applicable control expectations.

What you'll need

• More than 10 years of relevant professional experience across private markets, investment risk, credit risk, portfolio management, investment management, financial services, data and analytics, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams for at least five years, including people management, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and building leadership depth.
• Strong understanding of private-market risk factors, including credit, leverage, liquidity, concentration, valuation, performance, covenant, counterparty, structural, operational, and market risks.
• Ability to assess portfolio risks across investments, issuers, borrowers, sponsors, sectors, geographies, funds, strategies, and underlying assets.
• Experience interpreting company financials, capital structures, transaction documentation, credit metrics, valuation information, portfolio performance, and relevant market indicators.
• Experience developing or enhancing risk frameworks, portfolio analytics, monitoring indicators, governance processes, controls, and senior-management reporting.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, challenge constructively, navigate ambiguity, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to build strong partnerships with investment teams while maintaining the independence and objectivity expected of a risk professional.
• Strong organizational and execution skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver consistently in a complex, evolving environment.
• Outstanding business, communication and presentation skills.
• Keen interest in solving difficult real-world problems, analytics, reporting and production.
• Attention to detail, a good work ethic, and ability to work as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• A professional qualification such as CFA, FRM, CAIA or related discipline.
• Experience operating within an independent risk, governance, control, investment oversight, or comparable challenge function.

Details

• Location: Mumbai, India.
• Hybrid work model: at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office.