Quant jobs / KS Talent Solutions

Investment Risk Manager

KS Talent Solutions advertises an investment-risk role for an unnamed asset manager. The position analyses portfolio exposures and supports the systems and reports used for independent risk oversight.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Monitor equity, bond and multi-asset risk
Investigate stress, liquidity and performance drivers
Review risk-system outputs and portfolio data issues
Automate analytical dashboards and committee reporting

What they ask for

Required

Three to five years of relevant risk analysis
Portfolio-risk assessment
Analytical reporting
Cross-team investigation
Finance or quantitative academic preparation

Preferred

Aladdin, Axioma or FactSet
CFA or FRM

Education: Finance, economics, engineering, statistics or related degree; level is unspecified.
Experience: Three to five years analysing investment exposures, market risks or related quantitative questions.
Markets: equities, fixed-income, multi-asset

How to prepare

Build an exposure and stress report for a multi-asset portfolio
Reconcile a risk-system result with portfolio positions
Explain a liquidity concern clearly to an investment team

What to study

The Risk Quant roadmap sets out the stages for this kind of role, with free resources for each.

Open the roadmap

Apply

Read the full posting on KS Talent Solutions’s site before applying: requirements, location and pay can change after we check them.

View the posting on KS Talent Solutions’s site ↗

SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with KS Talent Solutions and doesn’t handle applications.