Portfolio Risk Officer :: Global Hedge Fund

Mondrian Alpha; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mondrian Alpha is seeking a Portfolio Risk professional in New York to join the front office. You will work directly with Portfolio Managers and Traders, analyzing portfolios, disclosing risk concentrations and guiding capital deployment across trading strategies.

You’ll partner with PMs on constructing risk-aware portfolios, run stress tests and scenario analyses, and help build infrastructure to support risk analytics across the firm.

Qualifications

• Front-office risk experience in hedge funds, prop firms, or investment banks.
• Strong quantitative skills and familiarity with risk analytics.
• Hands-on Python and SQL experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Partner with PMs on portfolio construction, exposures, concentration, leverage, liquidity and emerging risks.
• Interrogate positions, P&L and strategies through stress testing, scenario analysis and quantitative risk analytics.
• Build and enhance the models, tools and infrastructure used to manage risk across trading businesses.
• Bring an independent risk perspective to portfolio decisions and investment discussions.
• Market or portfolio risk experience within a hedge fund, prop firm or investment bank.
• Strong cross-asset knowledge across liquid markets and trading strategies.
• Excellent quantitative skills, including hands-on Python and SQL.
• The credibility to challenge sophisticated Portfolio Managers and Traders.

Skills

Python

SQL

Quantitative skills

Risk management

Cross-asset knowledge

Job description

A top-performing global multi-strategy hedge fund is looking to add a Portfolio Risk professional to its New York investment business amid significant growth across its US trading strategies.

This is genuine front-office risk. You’ll work directly with Portfolio Managers and Traders, challenging portfolios, dissecting risk and helping shape how capital is deployed across the firm.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with PMs on portfolio construction, exposures, concentration, leverage, liquidity and emerging risks
• Interrogate positions, P&L and strategies through stress testing, scenario analysis and quantitative risk analytics
• Build and enhance the models, tools and infrastructure used to manage risk across trading businesses
• Bring an independent risk perspective to portfolio decisions and investment discussions
• Market or portfolio risk experience within a hedge fund, prop firm or investment bank
• Strong cross-asset knowledge across liquid markets and trading strategies
• Excellent quantitative skills, including hands-on Python and SQL
• The credibility to challenge sophisticated Portfolio Managers and Traders

Why Now?

The firm is aggressively expanding its US investment business, putting Risk at the heart of that buildout. High-profile PMs. Complex portfolios. Serious ownership. Exceptional upside.