Risk Manager - Structured Products Focused

Soros Fund Management; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Soros Fund Management is looking for a Risk Manager to provide independent risk oversight across portfolios. The successful candidate will have 7-10 years of relevant experience in market risk and a strong background in Securitized Products.

Responsibilities include establishing risk limits, designing methodologies, and collaborating with investment teams to provide analytical insights. We value creativity, teamwork, and strong communication skills in a data-driven environment.

The role offers a competitive salary between $200,000-250,000 plus annual bonus.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience in market risk or portfolio management.
• Experience with Securitized Products including Agency/Non-Agency.
• Understanding of pricing models and risk methodologies.
• Effective communicator with senior management.
• Strong intellectual curiosity and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with analytical programming tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent risk oversight across portfolios.
• Identify and communicate key risk themes and changes.
• Establish and monitor risk limits and guidelines.
• Design and refine risk methodologies.
• Build and maintain pricing and risk models.
• Engage with investment teams on risk assessments.
• Provide actionable analytical insights to Portfolio Managers.
• Support portfolio construction and asset allocation decisions.
• Collaborate with Technology and Quantitative teams.

Skills

Market risk analysis

Portfolio management

Financial modeling

Quantitative analysis

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in analytical subject

Tools

Python

SQL

Bloomberg

Job description

Overview

Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a global asset manager and family office founded by George Soros in 1970. With ~$28 billion in assets under management (AUM), SFM serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations, one of the world’s largest charitable foundations dedicated to advancing justice, human rights, and democracy.

Team Overview

The Risk team at Soros Fund Management is an independent, analytically driven function that plays a central and impactful role in the firm’s investment process. The team partners closely with the investment team while maintaining an objective mandate to ensure that risk-taking is intentional and well understood.

The group is responsible for shaping and monitoring portfolio construction across the firm, designing and enforcing risk limits, and delivering clear, decision-oriented reporting on exposures, performance drivers, and evolving risk profiles. Through rigorous scenario analysis and stress testing, the team evaluates portfolio behavior under a wide range of market environments, helping to identify vulnerabilities and inform investment decisions before risks are realized.

A core element of the team’s mandate is to provide thoughtful, constructive challenge to Portfolio Managers. Risk Managers are expected to engage deeply with investment teams, ask probing questions, and apply robust quantitative analysis to test assumptions, structures, and concentrations. In parallel, the team develops and enhances analytics and risk frameworks, leveraging technology and data to continuously improve transparency, consistency, and insight across portfolios.

The Risk team’s culture emphasizes independence of judgment, analytical rigor, and practical impact, ensuring that risk management at SFM is not merely a control function, but a value-add partner in delivering strong, sustainable, risk-adjusted investment performance.

Major Responsibilities

• Provide independent, front-office aligned risk oversight across assigned portfolios, ensuring a holistic view of exposures at the trade, portfolio and fund levels.
• Identify, analyze, and clearly communicate key risk themes, drivers of P&L, and changes in portfolio risk profiles.
• Establish and monitor risk limits and guidelines, and partner with Portfolio Managers and Risk leadership to assess, escalate, and determine appropriate actions when exceptions arise.
• Design, develop, and continuously refine risk methodologies.
• Build and maintain pricing and risk models for complex transactions and support the valuation process through independent analysis and challenge where appropriate.
• Engage proactively with investment teams on the structuring, sizing, and risk assessment of new transactions and strategies.
• Provide actionable, data-driven analytical insights to Portfolio Managers on key risk factors, return drivers, correlations, and tail risks.
• Advance the quantitative framework used to support portfolio construction, diversification, and asset allocation decisions across strategies.
• Collaborate closely with Technology and Quantitative Data Strategy teams to productionize models, analytics, and reporting processes with an aim to improving scalability, robustness, and data quality.

What We Value

• 7-10 years of relevant experience in market risk, portfolio management, structuring, trading, or research.
• Direct hands-on experience in Securitized Products (Agency / Non-Agency, CMBS, CLO etc.) including comprehensive knowledge of models, markets and trading strategies.
• Degree in an analytical subject, understanding of statistics, pricing models and risk methodology.
• Effective communicator with ability to build rapport across investment professionals and senior management and communicate quantitative concepts clearly and concisely.
• High level of intellectual curiosity, with a strong drive to ask probing questions, explore new ideas, and continuously deepen understanding.
• Creative, hands-on, problem solver.
• Thrives in a team-oriented environment.
• Solid grounding in quantitative finance and statistics with experience in analytical programming tools (ideally Python and SQL).
• Knowledge of relevant systems (E.g., Intex, YieldBook, Bloomberg).

We anticipate the base salary of this role to be between $200,000-250,000. In addition to a base salary, the successful candidate will also be eligible to receive a discretionary year-end bonus.

In all respects, candidates need to reflect the following SFM core values:
Smart risk-taking // Owner’s Mindset // Teamwork // Humility // Integrity