At a Glance
- Tasks: Support Portfolio Managers by providing risk insights and enhancing portfolio construction.
- Company: Join Janus Henderson, a leader in investment management focused on client success.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, generous holidays, health benefits, and professional development support.
- Other info: Embrace a culture of continuous learning and community engagement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in financial outcomes while collaborating with diverse teams.
- Qualifications: Experience in investment or risk analysis with strong analytical skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Why work for us? A career at Janus Henderson is more than a job, it’s about investing in a brighter future together. Our Mission at Janus Henderson is to help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights, disciplined investments, and world-class service. We will do this by protecting and growing our core business, amplifying our strengths and diversifying where we have the right.
Our Values are key to driving our success, and are at the heart of everything we do:
- Clients Come First - Always
- Execution Supersedes Intention
- Together We Win
- Diversity Improves Results
- Truth Builds Trust
If our mission, values, and purpose align with your own, we would love to hear from you!
Your Opportunity:
- 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 when you join our firm:
- Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations.
- Generous Holiday policies.
- Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to Wellhub.
- Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community.
- Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more.
- Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services.
- All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities.
- Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen.
Must haves:
- 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.
- Confident working knowledge of financial markets, equity fundamentals, and drivers of investment returns.
- Proven experience working within investment or risk analysis, in 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 in analysis of portfolios and risk using systems such as FactSet, Barra, Aladdin.
- Quantitative mindset.
- Excel, Snowflake.
Janus Henderson Investors is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. All applications are subject to background checks.
