Mergers and Acquisitions - Risk Analyst

Mergers and Acquisitions - Risk Analyst

Millennium, a global alternative investment firm, is seeking a Mergers and Acquisitions - Risk Analyst. As a Risk Analyst, you will partner directly with Portfolio Managers (PMs) on capital allocation, providing insight into risk exposures, and working closely with the Office of the CIO on trends and forward-looking projects.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the event-driven landscape, tracking changes in the deal environment, regulatory backdrop, spread dynamics, and market conditions.
• Build and maintain tools to support event arbitrage analysis, workflow, and decision-making.
• Enhance risk capital methodologies, improving how capital is calculated, allocated, and monitored across the book.
• Conduct research and data exploration, working with large datasets to generate insights and support ad hoc and ongoing risk projects.
• Partner with PMs and Management to analyze and discuss portfolio construction, position sizing, risk exposures, and PM skill/performance attribution.

Requirements

• Experience between 3 - 6 years.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset with intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, structuring open-ended problems and making progress with incomplete information.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex analysis and clearly and concisely convey findings to Management and other stakeholders.
• Self-starter who can independently drive research projects.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis, tooling, and automation.
• Strong SQL skills, with the ability to query and work with large datasets.
• Comfort handling, cleaning, and exploring large, complex data sets.