Associate Director, Senior Risk Analyst

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

• 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 Class Pass 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…