AVP/VP, Risk Analytics Product Manager (Contract)

GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

Risk and Performance Management Department (RPMD)

In Risk & Performance Management Department (RPMD), we work collaboratively across teams to identify and address potential blind spots, ensuring that all relevant risks are considered and duly addressed.

Enterprise Risk and Performance

The Enterprise Risk and Performance (ERP) team within RPMD is responsible for integrated total portfolio risk management across investment, liquidity, leverage, sustainability, and other transversal risks. The team delivers independent assessments of investment risks and performance drivers, provides constructive challenge on portfolio design, and capital allocation decisions and leads the strategic development of total portfolio risk analytics and model risk management capabilities.

What will you do as a Risk Analytics Product Manager?

This contract role offers the opportunity to shape GIC’s next-generation portfolio analytics capabilities and contribute to the firm’s long-term investment and risk management excellence. The role sits within the ERP team and focuses on driving the strategic buildout of enterprise-level risk analytics, bringing industry best practices to enhance GIC’s analytical capabilities. This positions bridges business needs, quantitative methodologies and institutional-grade software solutions. 

As a Product Manager, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of a major risk analytics product or domain. Acting as the leader of your product suite, you will manage a multi-year roadmap and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams — including risk managers, quantitative analysts, and technologists— to deliver high-impact analytics that meet the evolving business needs. You will also have close interactions between vendors of risk systems to ensure their products and methodologies can fit GIC’s business in short- and long-term.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Roadmap

• Define and maintain the product roadmap for assigned risk analytics capabilities, ensuring alignment with firm-wide business priorities and long-term institutional requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear product requirements, use cases, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with investment teams, risk managers, and quantitative stakeholders to identify new product features, enhancements, and opportunities for analytical improvement.
• Prioritise product backlog items based on business value, risk impact, technical feasibility, and strategic alignment.
• Define product success measures and track adoption, usability, and business impact after release.

2. Stakeholder Management & Advisory

• Build trusted relationships across business, technology, quantitative, and data teams.
• Understand the business context behind user requests and provide guidance on appropriate product design, methodology, and usage.
• Facilitate alignment across stakeholders with differing priorities, ensuring product decisions are clearly communicated and well understood.
• Act as a subject matter bridge between users and technical delivery teams, ensuring analytical requirements are accurately translated into scalable product solutions.

3. Technical Collaboration & Delivery Oversight

• Work closely with project managers, tech teams, and risk managers to support end-to-end product delivery.
• Ensure delivered solutions maintain methodological consistency, functional integrity, data quality, and technical scalability.
• Support high-level planning, milestone definition, UAT coordination, production rollout, and post-implementation review.
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and trade-offs, and work with stakeholders to resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Maintain strong delivery discipline while ensuring that product outcomes remain aligned with business objectives.

What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role? 

• Graduate degree in a quantitative or technical discipline such as Finance, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, or Engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience developing analytical software (including methodology and coding) within a major financial institution or financial technology firm. Minimum 3 years of Product Management experience, including delivery of complex financial systems, stakeholder management and full software development lifecycle management – from use case definition to UAT and production deployment. Exposure to risk or portfolio management is advantageous.
• Solid understanding of risk methodologies including multi-asset modelling, Monte Carlo simulations, and factor-based models.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with large-scale data pipelines and risk engine computations. The candidate with AI mindset, AI knowledge and experience of agentic workflow would be highly preferred.
• Proven ability to communicate and "sell" ideas effectively, influence senior stakeholders, and lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Proactive, highly motivated, organized, and able to deliver under tight deadlines.
  

Work at the Point of Impact

We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.

Flexibility at GIC

At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection.  At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves.  Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.

GIC is an equal opportunity employer

GIC is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please email grphrodtaops@gic.com.sg at any point of the application or interview process if adjustments need to be made due to a disability.

Learn More

Learn more about our Risk & Performance Management Department here: https://gic.careers/group/risk-performance-management/