Mergers and Acquisitions - Risk Analyst

Millennium Management LLC; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Millennium Management LLC is a global, diversified investment firm seeking a Risk Analyst in Mumbai. The role focuses on event-driven risk, market conditions, and capital allocation with quantitative models.

You will build tools, explore large datasets, and collaborate with PMs and management to assess risk exposures and attribution, leveraging Python and SQL for analysis and automation.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience in a related role.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset with intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and structure open-ended problems.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the event-driven landscape and regulatory backdrop.
• Build and maintain tools for event arbitrage analysis and decision-making.
• Enhance risk capital methodologies across the book.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data analysis

Risk management

Event-driven

Ambiguity handling

Communication

Self-starter

Tools

Python tooling

Job description

Mergers and Acquisitions - Risk AnalystAbout MillenniumMillennium is a global, diversified alternative investment firm, founded in 1989. Defined by evolution, innovation and focus, Millennium’s mission is to deliver results for our investors.Our people are empowered with both independence and support: the autonomy to pursue ideas with conviction and the backing of a global network committed to collaboration, disciplined risk management and continuous learning. With opportunities to deepen expertise and accelerate development, talent at Millennium is equipped to adapt, evolve and build lasting impact over time. Discover how transformative growth accelerates impact.Meet the TeamThe Risk team partner directly with Portfolio Managers (PMs) on how they allocate capital, giving them insight into risk exposures, and working closely with the Office of the CIO on trends and forward-looking projects. Their toolkit is heavily quantitative — statistical factor and alpha models customized by asset class so the team can work hand-in-hand with each PM. They are also deeply involved in onboarding new PMs: determining how much capital a PM needs based on their strategy, validating allocations with CIOs, and monitoring portfolios daily and under stress scenarios to keep risk contained — guided by Millennium's philosophy of pursuing low volatility, high return, and never losing more than 10% of allocated capital on a PM.What You'll DoMonitor the event-driven landscape, tracking changes in the deal environment, regulatory backdrop, spread dynamics, and market conditions.Build and maintain tools to support event arbitrage analysis, workflow, and decision-making.Enhance risk capital methodologies, improving how capital is calculated, allocated, and monitored across the book.Conduct research and data exploration, working with large datasets to generate insights and support ad hoc and ongoing risk projects.Partner with PMs and Management to analyze and discuss portfolio construction, position sizing, risk exposures, and PM skill/performance attribution.What You BringExperience between 3 - 6 years.Analytical and problem-solving mindset with intellectual curiosity.Ability to deal with ambiguity, structuring open-ended problems and making progress with incomplete information.Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex analysis and clearly and concisely convey findings to Management and other stakeholders.Self-starter who can independently drive research projects.Proficiency in Python for data analysis, tooling, and automation.Strong SQL skills, with the ability to query and work with large datasets.Comfort handling, cleaning, and exploring large, complex data sets.