Senior Director, Total Portfolio Risk

HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan) • Toronto, ON

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Director, Total Portfolio Risk is a key leadership role within the Risk Division, responsible for delivering independent oversight, analytics, and insight on HOOPP’s total portfolio risk. Reporting to the VP, Total Portfolio Risk & Analytics, this role partners closely with Investment Management to support portfolio construction, strategic decision-making, and risk governance across public and private assets. This role serves as the enterprise owner of Total Portfolio Risk oversight at HOOPP, with accountability for how total portfolio risks are identified, measured, understood, and appropriately escalated across the organization. The role focuses on total portfolio risk oversight, stress testing, emerging risks, and advanced risk analytics. It plays a critical role in strengthening HOOPP’s Total Portfolio Approach by ensuring risks are well understood, measured, and integrated into investment decisions.

Requirements

• University education with a minimum post-graduate degree in business, mathematics finance, science, engineering, or another quantitative discipline.
• Minimum 12 years’ work experience of investment risk management in the pension industry, with strong knowledge of portfolio construction framework, risk modeling, and cross-asset risk analytics.
• Experience in both public and private markets.
• Strong expertise in both public assets (including complex derivatives) and private assets, including their risk characteristics, valuation approaches, and cross-asset interactions.
• Hands-on experience with stress testing frameworks and risk systems including incorporating macroeconomic conditions into quantitative stress testing and scenario design.
• Strategic and forward-looking understanding of emerging technology, such as the application of Artificial Intelligence in risk management.
• Demonstrated strong research and innovation skills.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, and excellent English — written and verbal.
• Alignment with HOOPP’s values of Accountable, Compassionate and Trustworthy.
• A conceptual and critical thinker who is adept at large scale problems.
• Excellent at building and maintaining strong working relationships across the HOOPP organization.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in business, mathematics finance, science, and engineering with CFA designation preferred.
• Experience with Aladdin Risk, Ortec or other risk systems would be beneficial.
• Previous coding and software development an asset.

Responsibilities

• Partner with investment management to provide holistic risk oversight of HOOPP’s total portfolio, which includes public assets as well as a broad range of private asset classes (such as real estate, infrastructure, private equity, and private credit). HOOPP’s portfolio also includes complex derivatives.
• Providing independent risk governance and constructive assessment over portfolio design choices, strategic allocations, and material transactions.
• Delivering integrated total portfolio risk oversight, aggregating exposures and insights by leveraging HOOPP’s risk technology systems.
• Leading the asset stress testing function and partner with the Actuarial team to provide asset/liability scenarios and ad-hoc analysis as required.
• Lead the identification and assessment of emerging risks, including advancements in artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies, and evaluate their implications for total portfolio risk, investment strategies, and market dynamics.
• Leading total portfolio risk research and advanced analytics, including driving risk management innovation in risk factor modeling, cross-asset correlation and tail-risk analysis, and forward-looking stress testing methodologies, while working closely with IT partners, the Total Portfolio Group, and industry thought leaders.
• Overseeing the development and implementation of quantitative methodologies, models, and analytics to assess and manage total portfolio risks across the organization.
• Building partnerships with investment management as well as other divisions across HOOPP that support the investment management function (Finance, HR, IT, Legal, etc.). Strong cross-functional collaboration is essential.
• Maintaining well-established relationships with peers in the industry, regulators, and industry experts.
• Experience leading, mentoring and developing risk professionals, with accountability for building a sustainable, high-performing Total Portfolio Risk capability and developing future risk leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across divisions, including Finance, Legal, and IT, and to contribute to multi-stakeholder governance processes.
• Experience in building, implementing, and maintaining risk policies, governance processes, and reporting structures is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• high-performance, people-focused culture
• commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success, which helps employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves
• learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events and access to LinkedIn Learning, that support employees’ career growth
• membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pension plan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security
• competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team's diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, parental leave top-up, and a health spending account).
• optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%
• yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars
• the opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, by providing a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director