Location
London

Hours
Hybrid working with reasonable accommodations

Salary
Competitive compensation with annual discretionary bonus opportunity

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 generating and interpreting analytics across factor exposures, active risk, performance attribution, and market conditions, translating outputs into clear, actionable insights. You will provide constructive challenge and alternative perspectives to support more robust investment decisions, proactively identify risk concentrations and emerging vulnerabilities, and recommend mitigation strategies.

Responsibilities include monitoring financial markets, contributing to risk budgeting, scenario and sensitivity analysis, responding to client and internal stakeholder queries, and building trusted relationships across Investment, Product, and Technology teams. 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. Skilled in factor risk modelling (style, sector, macro), active risk decomposition, scenario analysis, stress testing, and performance attribution (Brinson and factor-based). Familiarity with 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. Strong quantitative mindset with effective communication and interpersonal skills. Integrity, autonomy, and motivation towards equity markets and providing actionable investment risk intelligence.

Qualifications
Proficiency in Excel, Snowflake, and Python. 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.