Associate Director, Senior Risk Analyst

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.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

What to expect when you join our firm

• Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
• 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
• Complimentary subscription to Headspace – the mindfulness app
• Corporate membership to ClassPass and other health and well-being benefits
• All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities

Must have skills

• 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 & Python.
• Effective communication and people skills.
• Integrity and autonomy.
  
  

Motivations towards:

• Equity markets and investment.
• Providing actionable investment risk and quantitative intelligence for the betterment of investment processes and outcomes.

Nice to have skills

• Buy side experience.
• Strong FactSet and Alladin 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.

Investment areas

• Has responsibility for supporting risk managers and portfolio managers in the equity asset class.

Supervisory responsibilities

• No

Potential for growth

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

For those in scope of Knowledge & Competence (MiFID II)

• Knowledge of financial markets, financial markets function and the impact of economic figures and national/regional/global events on markets
• Understanding of issues relating to market abuse and anti-money laundering
• Annual attestation

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.

At Janus Henderson Investors we’re committed to an inclusive and supportive environment. We believe diversity improves results and we welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds. Don’t worry if you don’t think you tick every box, we still want to hear from you! We understand everyone has different commitments and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we’re happy to be asked about work flexibility and our hybrid working environment. If you need any reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know at recruiter@janushenderson.com

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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 here.

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.

Janus Henderson (including its subsidiaries) will not maintain existing or sponsor new industry registrations or licenses where not supported by an employee’s job functions (as determined by Janus Henderson at its sole discretion).

You should be willing to adhere to the provisions of our Investment Advisory Code of Ethics related to personal securities activities and other disclosure and certification requirements, including past political contributions and political activities. Applicants’ past political contributions or activity may impact applicants’ eligibility for this position.

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.