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Equities Risk Analyst - Hedge Fund - PR/579413_1770852556

Equities Risk Analyst - Hedge Fund

New York
Permanent
USD150000 - USD200000
Risk Management
PR/579413_1770852556
Equities Risk Analyst - Hedge Fund
A Hedge Fund is seeking an Equity Risk Analyst to join their team in NYC, primarily supporting the fundamental Long/Short Equity business. This growth hire is created in response to continued expansion and increased coverage needs across the platform. The current team is highly collaborative, analytical, and closely integrated with Portfolio Managers.
This hire will be part of a lean team overseeing ~ 20 PM pods running long/short strategies in fundamental equity business. You will help establish and monitor trading parameters, risk guidelines, and performance metrics across the trading floor. This hire needs to have great communication skills with the ability to work directly with senior leadership and translate knowledge across all levels. This role will deliver risk analytics at the book and fund level, including P&L attribution, and risk driver analysis.
You'll have the ability to analyze P&L drivers, assess trade ideas, enhance risk processes through automation, and ad‑hoc analytical projects. This is not a pure quant role, but fluency with data is important, and the ability code in Python/SQL is a plus.
Requirements
  • 3-6 years of buyside experience in equity risk management
  • Solid understanding of equity markets, long/short fundamental strategies, equity risk factor models
  • Experience with Python, SQL, R, and/or Excel; familiarity with visualization tools is a plus
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to interact wit PMs and senior risk leadership
  • Highly analytical, detail‑oriented, and comfortable working independently
  • Advanced degree in a quantitative, technical, or financial discipline

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