Senior Risk Manager

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We are looking for a Senior Risk Manager to support our growing global Multi Asset Arbitrage business:

  • Conduct daily analysis on portfolios in equity, corporate credit, and equity derivatives asset classes. Develop understanding around thematic and fundamental investments across multiple strategies.
  • Improve methodologies, metrics, and reporting for risk managing Multi Asset Arbitrage portfolios; build monitoring tools to share with PMs.
  • Provide input for daily Risk Worksessions and weekly Global Risk committee discussions.
  • Contribute to BAM’s risk analytics, processes and reporting within the Multi Asset Arbitrage business. Perform ad-hoc risk analysis for other portfolios across the firm
  • Report to Co-heads of Systematic and Event Risk

Requirements:

  • Asset class experience in Credit strategies including Convertible Arbitrage
  • Practical strategy experience in event driven equity strategies (e.g. merger arbitrage, index rebalance, spin-off / corporate restructuring trades)
  • Strong academic background in a quantitative area e.g. math, physics, economics or finance.
  • 7 or more years’ experience in finance roles, either as a risk manager, quantitative researcher, analyst in a bank or hedge fund. Would entertain former traders / portfolio managers looking to transition their careers.
  • Strong communication skills. The role involves constant dialogue with all parts of the organization
  • Intermediate or better programming experience in any of Python/C++/C#/C/Java.
  • Strong analytical skills. Creative, motivated, hard-working, and strong all-round interest in financial markets. Practical approach to problem solving.
  • Attention to detail – takes ownership of projects, strong focus on data quality, correctness, and intuitiveness of output.

Nice to have:

  • Practical experience in Equity Derivatives strategies (e.g. dispersion, index vol relative value)
  • Knowledge of RiskMetrics
  • Programming experience with SQL or other databases
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Company: Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
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Location: London
Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Risk Manager to support our growing global Multi Asset Arbitrage business:

  • Conduct daily analysis on portfolios in equity, corporate credit, and equity derivatives asset classes. Develop understanding around thematic and fundamental investments across multiple strategies.
  • Improve methodologies, metrics, and reporting for risk managing Multi Asset Arbitrage portfolios; build monitoring tools to share with PMs.
  • Provide input for daily Risk Worksessions and weekly Global Risk committee discussions.
  • Contribute to BAM’s risk analytics, processes and reporting within the Multi Asset Arbitrage business. Perform ad-hoc risk analysis for other portfolios across the firm
  • Report to Co-heads of Systematic and Event Risk

Requirements:

  • Asset class experience in Credit strategies including Convertible Arbitrage
  • Practical strategy experience in event driven equity strategies (e.g. merger arbitrage, index rebalance, spin-off / corporate restructuring trades)
  • Strong academic background in a quantitative area e.g. math, physics, economics or finance.
  • 7 or more years’ experience in finance roles, either as a risk manager, quantitative researcher, analyst in a bank or hedge fund. Would entertain former traders / portfolio managers looking to transition their careers.
  • Strong communication skills. The role involves constant dialogue with all parts of the organization
  • Intermediate or better programming experience in any of Python/C++/C#/C/Java.
  • Strong analytical skills. Creative, motivated, hard-working, and strong all-round interest in financial markets. Practical approach to problem solving.
  • Attention to detail – takes ownership of projects, strong focus on data quality, correctness, and intuitiveness of output.

Nice to have:

  • Practical experience in Equity Derivatives strategies (e.g. dispersion, index vol relative value)
  • Knowledge of RiskMetrics
  • Programming experience with SQL or other databases

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Posted: May 17th, 2026