Fractional Chief Risk Officer, Investments; Advisor Network

Position: Fractional Chief Risk Officer, Investments (Advisor Network)

Opportunity Overview

Arootah engages a curated network of senior operators to support clients across the alternative investment industry, including hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Advisors are deployed on project-based engagements when client needs match their expertise. Joining the network does not guarantee placement; it provides access to opportunities as they arise.

Why Join the Arootah Network

Alt-industry-only engagements with hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices.

Project-based work that fits around existing commitments.

Client origination and engagement management handled by Arootah; advisors focus on delivery.

About Arootah

Arootah is a talent solutions firm purpose-built for the alternative investment industry. We advise and we execute, covering the full talent spectrum from entry to exit across five services:
Talent Acquisition, Fractional Leadership, Talent Development, Retention Compensation, and Transition. Most talent firms solve one problem. Because we cover the full spectrum, we can help clients identify and solve the right one. We start with diagnosis, then deliver. Our team has run alternative investment firms at the highest levels as COOs, CFOs, and CCOs. That operator experience, combined with 15+ years of alternatives-specific recruiting and a network of 700+ vetted advisors across 18 functional disciplines, is what makes the advice credible and the execution reliable.

We also draw on a network of 600+ coaches, deploying those with specific experience guiding senior executives in the alternatives industry. One industry. One talent partner. Entry to exit. Learn more:

Who We’re Looking For

Arootah is searching for an experienced Chief Risk Officer, Investments to consult to our highly prestigious client base. As a consultant, you will work with our Hedge Fund and Family Office clients to provide expert advice. Having previously served in the role of Chief Risk Officer, Investments you have specific, hands‑on experience building, maintaining and overseeing the risk management efforts specifically focused on the investment and portfolio management activity of a leading Hedge Fund or Family Office.

Core Areas of Expertise

Provide advice and guidance to Arootah clients who seek help with their investment and portfolio management risk needs. This will involve consulting to some of the leading Hedge Funds and Family Offices in the world and sharing your experience as a Chief Risk Officer, Investments in helping clients to:
Develop realistic and effective monthly action plans. Identify internal and contextual roadblocks. Break apart goals into actionable steps. Devise a plan of action for each goal. Provide the client with resources associated with implementing their action plan. Implement policies, procedures, and control measures. Review, analyze and report on client tools and resources to ensure industry best practices. Evaluate each client’s advancement toward goal actualization through key performance indicators (KPIs) and scoring matrices.

Maintain and share detailed and accurate records of consulting results (challenges, breakthroughs, etc.). Analyze portfolio and investment risk using various quantitative models/techniques and review the implications of potential investment decisions on total portfolio risk. Develop, maintain, and update investment risk framework tools to analyze individual investments and portfolios. Identify and evaluate risks, as well as run stress tests, across various asset classes, strategies, portfolios, and managers.

Perform market and credit risk reporting and analysis of all investment activity, including VaR, stress loss, operational guidelines, transactional reviews, and liquidity risk. Perform…