Risk Management Consultant (UCITS & AIF)

Risk Management Consultant (UCITS & AIF)

6-month Assignment | Luxembourg | Part-time (4h/day) with potential Full-time depending on profile

About the Opportunity

We are currently supporting a confidential private bank in Luxembourg in the search for a Risk Management Consultant to reinforce an established risk team covering an investment fund universe including UCITS and AIF structures (with strategies such as Private Equity and Real Estate).

The assignment is currently scoped at 4 hours per day to support the team’s operational risk monitoring and reporting workload. Depending on your experience, autonomy, and ability to take ownership, the mission can be performed on a full-time basis.

This opportunity is ideal for a fund risk professional who enjoys combining technical analysis, investment restriction monitoring, and high-quality reporting, in a regulated environment where rigor, pragmatism, and attention to detail are essential.

Assignment Details

Location: Luxembourg
Start date: May 2026
Duration: 6 months (extension possible depending on project needs)

Workload:

• Part-time: 4 hours/day 

• Full-time possible depending on profile and scope coverage
  Remote work:

• On-site presence expected during onboarding and initial ramp-up

• Hybrid set-up may be possible afterwards depending on autonomy and team organisation

Your Responsibilities

Fund Risk Monitoring (UCITS & AIF)

You will support the day-to-day risk monitoring across a range of fund strategies, ensuring reliable analysis and actionable insights.

• Monitor key risk metrics (market risk, liquidity risk, concentration risk, counterparty risk, leverage where applicable)

• Perform exposure analysis by asset class, issuer, sector, geography, currency, and other relevant risk dimensions

• Investigate drivers behind risk movements and exceptions, and support root-cause analysis

• Contribute to scenario analysis and stress-testing exercises based on internal methodologies

Investment Restrictions & Regulatory Framework

You will help ensure fund monitoring aligns with the applicable regulatory environment and internal policies.

• Support the monitoring and interpretation of investment restrictions applicable to UCITS and AIFs

• Contribute to control evidence and documentation (traceable, well-structured, audit-ready)

• Escalate breaches, anomalies or data inconsistencies in a clear and solution-oriented way

Risk Reporting & Governance Support

You will contribute to producing and improving high-quality risk reporting deliverables for internal stakeholders.

• Prepare periodic risk reporting packs (dashboards, KPIs, exception logs, and commentary)

• Improve reporting structure, consistency, and robustness (quality checks, reconciliations, version control)

• Handle ad-hoc reporting requests and support governance-related deliverables when required

Financial Products & Derivatives Exposure

A solid understanding of instruments is required to interpret exposures and reporting impacts.

• Analyse and interpret exposures linked to financial derivatives and their impact on risk measures and limits

• Support the consistent treatment of instruments within risk templates and reporting logic

Tools & Automation (Excel / VBA)

This role requires strong Excel capabilities and an improvement mindset.

• Build, maintain, and enhance reporting tools and templates in Excel

• Automate recurring tasks and controls using VBA where relevant

• Strengthen data quality checks and reconciliation logic to improve reliability and efficiency

Your Profile

Experience

You meet one of the following criteria:

• 3+ years of professional experience in Risk Management within the investment fund industry, covering UCITS and AIF (ideally with exposure to Private Equity and/or Real Estate strategies),
  or

• prior experience as a Risk Management Consultant supporting fund-related risk topics (UCITS/AIF), such as risk reporting, investment restriction monitoring, risk frameworks, or data/control improvements.

Skills

• Strong understanding of UCITS and AIF regulatory constraints, especially investment restrictions

• Good knowledge of financial products, including derivatives

• Excellent command of MS Office, particularly Excel

• VBA is a strong advantage (automation, robust reporting packs, controls)

Mindset

• Strong team spirit with a pragmatic, hands-on approach

• Detail-oriented with a high standard for quality, structure, and traceability

• Comfortable delivering recurring outputs as well as investigating exceptions

• Solution-oriented, reliable, and able to operate with autonomy

Languages

French & English: professional working proficiency required
 

Interested ?

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity or apply confidentially, please contact:

Rémi Simon
Skillfinder International
rsimon@skillfindergroup.com
+352 27 30 06 27