Location
London

Hours
Hybrid working with reasonable accommodations

Salary
Competitive compensation with annual discretionary bonus opportunity based on company, department, team, and individual performance

About the Role
Join Janus Henderson as a Senior Investment Risk Analyst and become a key risk partner embedded within the investment process. You will support Portfolio Managers in enhancing portfolio construction, risk positioning, and return outcomes by delivering timely, decision-relevant risk insights. Your role includes partnering with Portfolio Managers daily to integrate risk considerations into investment decisions, generating and interpreting analytics across factor exposures, active risk, performance attribution, and market conditions, and translating these into clear, actionable insights.

You will provide constructive challenge and alternative perspectives to support robust investment decisions, proactively identify risk concentrations and emerging vulnerabilities, and recommend mitigation strategies. Monitoring financial markets and assessing portfolio implications will be essential, along with contributing to risk budgeting, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis to support portfolio positioning under various market environments.

Responding to client and internal stakeholder queries by articulating portfolio risk and performance drivers clearly and building trusted relationships across Investment, Product, and Technology teams will be key to ensuring effective risk integration throughout the investment lifecycle. You will also drive automation and efficiency improvements to enhance scalability and consistency of risk analytics and reporting, working closely with Technology and Data teams to ensure accuracy and integrity of risk data and models.

Janus Henderson offers a supportive environment with generous holiday policies, excellent health and wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to Wellhub, paid volunteer time, professional development support, parental leave benefits, employee networking events, and a lunch allowance for use within the subsidized onsite canteen.

Experience
- Proven experience in investment or risk analysis on the buy or sell side
- Strong knowledge of financial markets, equity fundamentals, and drivers of investment returns
- Experience with portfolio construction in bottom-up, discretionary investment processes and risk-return trade-offs
- Expertise in factor risk modelling (style, sector, macro), active risk decomposition, scenario analysis, stress testing, and performance attribution (Brinson and factor-based)
- Skilled in portfolio and risk analysis using systems such as FactSet, Barra, and Aladdin

About you
- A can-do attitude combined with mental agility and intellectual curiosity, with a bias toward action and continuous learning
- Consultative and partnership-driven approach to working with Portfolio Managers, focused on diagnosing underlying risk drivers and co-developing actionable solutions
- Quantitative mindset with strong Excel, Snowflake, and Python skills
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Integrity, autonomy, and motivation towards equity markets and providing actionable investment risk intelligence

Qualifications
- Working toward CFA or other professional qualifications is useful but not required
- Buy side experience and strong FactSet skills are advantageous
- Understanding of strategy risks, risk modelling, and risk-return characteristics of different asset classes is beneficial

Additional Information
- You will support risk managers and portfolio managers in the equity asset class
- Opportunities for mentoring, leadership development programs, regular training, career development services, and continuing education courses
- Expected to understand and comply with regulatory obligations, firm policies, and the Investment Advisory Code of Ethics
- Janus Henderson is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all backgrounds
- Flexible working and hybrid environment available with reasonable accommodations during recruitment process