Risk Analyst (Alternative Investments)

📍Based in City of London, offering hybrid working

Candidates will ideally have risk experience gained within asset management or alternative investments.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Risk Analyst to join the risk function of a specialist alternative asset manager. Investing across real assets - including forestry, energy transition, sustainable infrastructure and real estate - alongside public and private equity strategies, the firm manages capital on behalf of institutions, family offices, charities and private clients, with a strong and genuine focus on sustainability.

This is a varied, hands-on role covering risk across a genuinely differentiated set of asset classes. Because many of the underlying assets sit outside conventional markets, the role regularly involves working through risk questions that don’t come with a ready-made template - for example, scoping insurance solutions for a forestry portfolio in a market where no standard product currently exists. You will work closely with investment, operations and finance teams to identify, assess and manage risk across the business, reporting into the risk leadership team.

Key Responsibilities of the Risk Analyst to include:

• Risk Monitoring & Reporting: support the ongoing monitoring, measurement and reporting of risk across the firm’s alternative investment strategies, including real assets, real estate, energy transition and private/strategic equity.
• Novel Risk Solutions: work with investment teams to identify risk exposures that fall outside standard market solutions and help develop practical mitigants where established products or precedents don’t exist.
• Portfolio & Investment Risk: assist with risk assessment and due diligence on new and existing investments across illiquid, real and alternative asset classes.
• Operational & Enterprise Risk: contribute to the wider risk framework, including risk registers, control testing and incident reporting.
• Regulatory Engagement: support compliance with the regulatory requirements relevant to alternative investment fund managers.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: build strong working relationships with investment, operations and finance teams to embed risk awareness across the business.
• Process Improvement: help develop and refine risk frameworks, policies and reporting tools as the business and its range of asset classes continue to grow.