Senior Investment Risk Manager - Fixed Income in Birmingham

A leading global investment manager is seeking a VP level Fixed Income Investment Risk Analyst to establish and build its Fixed Income Investment Risk capability in London. This is a pivotal hire and an opportunity to shape the future of the firm\’s active fixed income platform as it expands its global investment presence.

Working directly with portfolio managers, traders, and senior leadership, you’ll define the risk framework, build processes from the ground up, and embed a culture of rigorous, insight-driven risk thinking across investment decision-making. This role is well-suited to someone who combines technical depth with commercial judgement and is energised by building, shaping, and influencing.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of the risk framework for the London fixed income platform, ensuring it aligns with the firm’s global risk governance model.
• Build new infrastructure, analytics, tools, and reporting to support risk oversight of active fixed income strategies.
• Act as a trusted partner to PMs—providing challenge, guidance, and actionable insight to inform investment and portfolio construction decisions.
• Enhance methodologies across factor modelling, stress testing, scenario analysis, attribution, validation and risk-return measurement.
• Support new strategy launches and product development, embedding risk rigor from inception.
• Influence and mature best practices while adapting frameworks to evolving markets, investment approach and business priorities.
• Represent the London platform with internal stakeholders and external partners as the subject-matter expert on fixed income investment risk.

Experience:

• 8+ years in investment risk, portfolio analytics, fixed income research or investment oversight within an asset manager or buy-side institution.
• A track record of contributing to or establishing risk frameworks and processes.
• Strong technical and modelling expertise, with comfort challenging assumptions and shaping investment thinking.
• Experience engaging closely with portfolio managers in a partnership-oriented, commercially aware manner.
• Bachelor\’s degree required; postgraduate qualifications preferred.
• CFA and/or FRM (completed or in progress) beneficial.

This is a rare opportunity: an early, high-impact hire with the autonomy to build, define, and shape how active fixed income risk is managed and embedded into decision making. If you’re seeking a role where your work will materially influence outcomes from day one, we’d welcome a confidential discussion.

Location: City of London

Salary: c.£120k base plus bonus.

Please note our client is unable to offer sponsorship for this opportunity. Finally, should you not be contacted within five working days of submitting your application, then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for the opportunity. We will however be in touch should there be any other opportunities of potential interest that are suiting to your skills.

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