Capital Platform Lead
Our client, a leading global hedge fund is seeking a Capital Platform Lead to play a critical role in safeguarding liquidity, optimising financing, and enhancing capital efficiency across a multi-asset investment platform.
The firm operates a diversified set of systematic and discretionary strategies across global markets, underpinned by strong quantitative research, advanced technology infrastructure, and a collaborative operating model.
This position sits at the intersection of investment, risk, treasury, and counterparties, offering high visibility and direct impact on business performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Safeguard firm-wide liquidity and ensure financial stability, including under stressed scenarios
- Monitor and manage counterparty exposures, assessing funding and liquidity dynamics
- Optimise margin usage and financing arrangements across prime brokers and banking partners
- Deliver capital allocation, funding attribution, and profitability analysis to senior stakeholders
- Act as a central point of contact for capital and liquidity queries across all asset classes
- Support new business initiatives, including broker selection and capital structuring
- Lead onboarding of new brokers, entities, and structural changes, ensuring seamless system integration
- Maintain ongoing dialogue with counterparties regarding balances, constraints, and opportunity sets
- Oversee FX exposure management and hedging activities at portfolio and entity level
Collaboration
- Partner with investment teams to understand strategies and represent them externally
- Work closely with senior leadership on profitability and capital efficiency initiatives
- Coordinate with treasury and funding teams on liquidity impacts
- Liaise with repo and financing teams on exposure and balance sheet constraints
- Support trading teams on liquidity considerations for strategy deployment
- Collaborate with quantitative, technology, and operations teams on platform enhancements
Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years in markets, with a strong risk or financing background
- Multi-asset knowledge: Solid understanding across equities, credit, FX, rates, commodities, and volatility
- Counterparty expertise: Deep knowledge of margin methodologies, financing structures, and bank balance sheet considerations (e.g. RWA)
- Liquidity & analytics: Proven ability to model liquidity, forecast funding needs, and analyse profitability drivers
- Technical skills: Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities; experience building models and monitoring tools
- Communication: Highly organised and structured communicator, able to manage multiple stakeholders and represent complex strategies clearly
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