Associate Director, Senior Investment Risk Analyst in City of Westminster

Responsibilities

• Act as a risk partner, embedded within the investment process, supporting Portfolio Managers in enhancing portfolio construction, risk positioning, and return outcomes.
• Deliver timely, decision‑relevant risk insights to inform active investment decisions and challenge assumptions where appropriate.
• Partner with Portfolio Managers on a day‑to‑day basis to integrate risk considerations into portfolio construction and investment decisions.
• Generate and interpret analytics across factor exposures, active risk, performance attribution, and market conditions, translating outputs into clear, actionable insights.
• Provide constructive challenge and alternative perspectives to support more robust investment decisions.
• Proactively identify risk concentrations, unintended exposures, and emerging vulnerabilities, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Monitor financial markets and assess implications for portfolios, escalating material risks and opportunities with clear, actionable recommendations.
• Contribute to risk budgeting, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis, supporting portfolio positioning under different market environments.
• Respond to client and internal stakeholder queries, articulating portfolio risk and performance drivers in a clear and investment‑relevant manner.
• Build trusted relationships across Investment, Product, and Technology teams to ensure effective risk integration across the investment lifecycle.
• Drive automation and efficiency improvements, enhancing scalability and consistency of risk analytics and reporting.
• Work closely with Technology and Data teams to ensure accuracy, integrity, and usability of risk data and models.

What to Expect

• A can‑do attitude combined with mental agility and intellectual curiosity, with a bias toward action and continuous learning.
• A consultative and partnership‑driven approach to working with Portfolio Managers, focused on diagnosing underlying risk drivers and co‑developing actionable solutions.

Qualifications & Experience

• Confident working knowledge of financial markets, equity fundamentals, and drivers of investment returns.
• Proven experience working within investment or risk analysis, either buy or sell side.
• Portfolio construction in bottom‑up, discretionary investment processes and risk‑return trade‑offs.
• Factor risk modelling (style, sector, macro) and active risk decomposition.
• Scenario analysis and stress testing, including forward‑looking risk identification.
• Performance attribution (Brinson and factor‑based) and linking performance outcomes back to positioning decisions.

Skills

• Analysis of portfolios and risk using systems such as FactSet, Barra, Aladdin.
• Quantitative mindset.
• Excel, Snowflake, & Python.
• Effective communication and people skills.
• Integrity and autonomy.

Nice to Haves

• Buy side experience.
• Strong FactSet skills.
• Working toward CFA or other professional qualification is useful but not required.
• A strong understanding of strategy risks and risk modelling.
• Understanding of the risk and return characteristics of different asset classes beneficial.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Potential for Growth

• Mentoring.
• Leadership development programs.
• Regular training.
• Career development services.
• Continuing education courses.

Benefits

• Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations.
• Generous holiday policies.
• Excellent health and wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to ClassPass.
• Paid volunteer time to step away from work and engage with community.
• Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more.
• Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services.
• Complimentary subscription to Headspace, a mindfulness app.
• All employee events, including networking opportunities and social activities.
• Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen.

Equal Opportunity / EEO Statement

Janus Henderson is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class. All applicants are subject to background checks.