Careers at KKR

Careers at KKR

Quantitative Investment Risk Professional

New York, New York, United States

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$200kDetected 15 days ago
PythonSQLData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsStatisticsAccountingValuationLoad TestingResearchCommunicationActuarial Science

About the role

  • The Investment Risk team is a key functional area within Global Atlantic, bridging Investments and Risk Management.
  • We are seeking an experienced Investment Risk professional with strong quantitative and technical skills.
  • KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design and enhance portfolio risk monitoring frameworks across public and private credit, structured products, mortgage and real estate exposures, alternatives, derivatives, and other insurance-relevant asset classes.
  • Build integrated risk views that consolidate exposures by asset class, legal entity, rating, sector, geography, liquidity tier, capital usage, and cross-asset risk factor.
  • Develop quantitative analytics for credit, spread, interest rate, liquidity, capital, concentration, valuation, regulatory, and legal-entity risk.
  • Support pro forma risk analysis of future sourcing, including the impact of new investments on capital, liquidity, ALM, expected loss, stress loss, concentration, and risk-adjusted return.
  • Develop practical tools and dashboards to support risk appetite monitoring, limit utilization, watchlists, restructuring review, new-deal assessment, and senior management reporting.
  • Apply AI and automation to improve document review, data quality checks, reporting workflows, surveillance, code development, and investment risk analysis, while maintaining appropriate governance, auditability, and human review.
  • Partner with Investments, Portfolio Construction, ALM/Actuarial, Valuation, and KKR asset-class deal teams to connect asset-level analysis to enterprise risk decisions.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of relevant experience in investment risk, portfolio analytics, asset management, insurance, fixed income, structured credit, quantitative research, data science, or a related field.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or another quantitative discipline.
  • Strong quantitative foundation, including experience with stress testing, scenario analysis, statistical modeling, portfolio risk measurement, cash-flow modeling, optimization, or capital/liquidity analytics.
  • Ability to work with large, imperfect, multi-source datasets and reconcile analysis to investment, accounting, statutory, or risk reporting sources.
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical analysis clearly to investments, risk, finance, technology, and senior stakeholders.
  • KKR will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws.
  • Strong knowledge of investments and risk drivers across fixed income and equity-like assets
  • Advanced hands-on Python and SQL skills, with experience building analytical tools, automated reports, data pipelines, dashboards, or quantitative models.
  • Results-oriented, intellectually curious, self-motivated, collaborative, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
  • Insurance capital, liquidity, ALM, rating-agency capital models, or statutory accounting.
  • Risk appetite dashboards, limit framework, stress-testing frameworks, or Board/senior-management risk reporting.
  • Use of AI, large language models, or agentic tools for investment research, risk surveillance, reporting automation, document intelligence, code generation, or data quality workflows.
  • Model risk management, AI governance, data controls, auditability, and reproducibility in a regulated financial services environment.

Nice to have

  • experience with insurance general account portfolios, structured credit, private credit, real estate debt, CLOs, ABS, RMBS/CMBS, or illiquid assets is preferred.
  • Preferred Experience

Compensation

  • $150,000 - $200,000 USD

Benefits

  • KKR's insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group.
  • You can request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to Benefits@kkr.com.

Equal opportunity

  • KKR is an equal opportunity employer.
  • Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email Benefits@kkr.com.
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