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.
Qualifications and Experience
- Confident working knowledge of financial markets, equity fundamentals, and drivers of investment returns.
- Proven experience working within investment or risk analysis, on either the buy or sell side.
- Experience in portfolio construction in bottom‑up, discretionary investment processes and understanding of risk‑return trade‑offs.
- Experience with factor risk modelling (style, sector, macro) and active risk decomposition.
- Experience in scenario analysis and stress testing, including forward‑looking risk identification.
- Experience in performance attribution (Brinson and factor‑based) and linking performance outcomes back to positioning decisions.
Key Skills
- Analysis of portfolios and risk using systems such as FactSet, Barra, Aladdin.
- Quantitative mindset.
- Proficiency in Excel, Snowflake, and Python.
- Effective communication and people skills.
- Integrity and autonomy.
Nice to Have
- Working toward a CFA or other professional qualification.
- Strong understanding of strategy risks and risk modelling.
- Understanding of the risk and return characteristics of different asset classes.
What to Expect
- Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations.
- Excellent health and wellbeing benefits, including corporate membership to Wellhub.
- Paid volunteer time to step away from the 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 the subsidized onsite canteen.
Annual Bonus Opportunity: Position may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus award from the profit pool. The profit pool is funded based on company profits. Individual bonuses are determined based on company, department, team and individual performance.
Benefits: Janus Henderson is committed to offering a comprehensive total rewards package to eligible employees that includes competitive compensation, pension/retirement plans, and various health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits. To learn more about our offerings please visit the Why Join Us section on the career page.
Janus Henderson Investors is an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. All applications are subject to background checks.
You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.
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