A leading investment management business is looking to hire a Senior Investment Risk Analyst to join its London-based risk function, with a focus on alternatives and private markets. This is a senior, broad and high-visibility role covering investment risk oversight across a range of alternative investment strategies. The role will suit an experienced buy-side investment risk or market risk professional who has worked with alternative assets, private markets, hedge funds, private credit or capital solutions, and who is comfortable combining technical risk analysis with senior stakeholder engagement. The successful candidate will play a key role in overseeing investment risk across complex and less liquid strategies, supporting the development of risk appetite, limits, portfolio analytics, product governance and risk reporting. The role will involve close interaction with portfolio managers, investment teams, business heads and senior risk stakeholders, providing independent challenge and practical insight across existing portfolios and new investment initiatives. There will also be a strong data and analytics component. The successful candidate must be able to code in Python and use this to improve risk analysis, automate reporting, enhance monitoring tools and work effectively with large and complex datasets. Key responsibilities will include: Providing investment risk oversight across alternative investment strategies, including private markets, private credit, hedge funds, infrastructure-related strategies, capital solutions or other complex investment products. Monitoring market risk, liquidity risk, leverage, concentration risk, counterparty risk, valuation risk and wider portfolio risk themes. Supporting the development and ongoing review of risk appetite, risk limits, management action triggers, guidelines and escalation frameworks. Delivering risk and performance analytics to support portfolio oversight, investment challenge and senior management reporting. Working closely with portfolio managers and investment teams to identify key risks, assess portfolio construction and support client-focused investment solutions. Reviewing new and existing alternative investment products, including both open-ended and closed-ended structures. Producing clear risk reporting and analysis for senior stakeholders, committees and governance forums. Supporting risk oversight for new product development, investment committees and investment oversight forums. Contributing to the continued enhancement of the alternatives risk framework, including responsible investing, ESG-related risk analysis and regulatory reporting where relevant. Building and improving Python-based tools for risk analysis, reporting automation, data quality and portfolio monitoring. The successful candidate will need: Strong experience in an investment risk or market risk role within a buy-side firm. Direct experience covering alternative investments, such as private credit, private markets, hedge funds, infrastructure debt, capital solutions, private equity, secondaries or similar strategies. Strong understanding of investment risk across less liquid and complex portfolios, including liquidity, leverage, concentration risk, stress testing, scenario analysis, exposures and risk limits. Hands-on Python coding experience, ideally applied to risk analytics, reporting, automation or large dataset analysis. The ability to engage credibly with portfolio managers, investment teams, business heads and senior risk stakeholders. Strong analytical judgement and the ability to translate complex risk analysis into clear, commercially relevant insight. Experience contributing to risk frameworks, governance processes, committee materials or product review would be highly desirable. Knowledge of responsible investing, ESG-related risk frameworks or regulatory reporting would be advantageous. The ability to work in the UK without requiring current or future sponsorship. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior investment risk professional to take on a broad alternatives-focused role, combining portfolio risk oversight, private markets exposure, senior stakeholder interaction and technology-driven improvement within a well-established investment management business.
