Graduate Analyst, Financial Risk Management

This entry-level financial risk advisory and trading operations role focuses on derivatives management, regulatory reporting, and client onboarding, training recent graduates through direct placement to support fund financing transactions, execute trade settlements, and handle compliance processes.

Description

Validus Risk Management is a specialist derivatives and financial risk advisory firm. Our clients are top-tier Private Equity and Private Debt firms, financial institutions, corporates, and investment managers. We provide our clients with expert guidance on derivatives structuring, ISDA negotiation, market risk, fund finance and regulatory reporting.

Backed by FTV Capital and growing rapidly, we have offices in London, Windsor, New York, Toronto and Singapore. We are targeting significant expansion over the coming years and are building the team that will take us there.

The Opportunities

We are hiring multiple Graduate Analysts to join our London office across several of our core practice areas. This is not a graduate scheme with rotations and structured programmes. It is a genuine role from day one, working alongside experienced practitioners on live client work.

We know that the right person can come from a range of backgrounds. What matters to us is intellectual curiosity, an aptitude for working with numbers and complexity, and the drive to build real expertise in financial risk management. We will give you the training, the exposure, and the environment to grow quickly.

Depending on your strengths and our business needs, successful candidates may be placed into one of the following areas:

Fund Finance Operations

Supporting complex fund financing transactions, working with data, documentation, and operational processes across various credit facility types and other fund-level financing structures that underpin private equity, private credit and alternative investment strategies.

Trading Operations

Supporting trade lifecycle processes across derivatives products, working closely with counterparties, clients and internal teams to ensure accurate and timely trade confirmation, settlement and reconciliation.

Client Onboarding

Managing the end-to-end onboarding of new clients and counterparties, including KYC, documentation, and coordination with legal and compliance teams. A core part of how Validus delivers a premium client experience.

Regulatory Reporting

Supporting our regulatory reporting practice across EMIR, MiFID II and other applicable regimes, working with data and systems to ensure accurate and timely trade reporting and reconciliation on behalf of clients, alongside managing regulator and client queries.

ISDA Advisory

Supporting private market fund managers through complex credit negotiations, covenant monitoring and stress testing in a specialist, high-growth environment where you'll learn directly from industry experts

Requirements

What We Are Looking For

You will likely be a recent graduate or about to complete your degree. The subject matters less than the mindset. We look for people who are genuinely interested in financial markets, comfortable working with detail, motivated to develop real expertise over time and comfortable working in a fast-growing environment that can be less structured than in large institutions. You will proactively look for ways to add value rather than wait to be told and will have a ‘team first’ attitude.

• A numerate degree, or strong evidence of analytical ability in your discipline

• A genuine interest in financial markets, derivatives, or risk management

• Clear, confident communication, both written and verbal

• High attention to detail and a methodical approach to complex information

• The ability to manage competing priorities and work accurately under pressure

• A collaborative mindset and the maturity to contribute to a professional client-facing environment

• A working knowledge of, and ideas of how to apply AI to streamline business processes would be advantageous

What You Will Get

• A real role in a specialist advisory firm, not a training programme

• Mentorship from senior practitioners with deep market experience

• Exposure to sophisticated clients across financial services, asset management, and corporates

• A structured path to professional qualifications where relevant to your role

• A high-performance culture that rewards those who take ownership and push themselves

• Competitive salary and benefits, with genuine progression for those who deliver

Benefits

Compensation and Benefits:

• Eligible for company bonus scheme

• Enhanced Health Insurance with Dental, Optical and Mental health benefits

• Financial support towards qualifications

• Pension

About the Company:

Validus Risk Management is an independent technology-enabled advisory firm specialising in the management of FX, interest rate and other market risks. We work with institutional investors, fund managers, and portfolio companies to design and implement strategies to measure, manage and monitor financial market risk, using a market-tested combination of specialist consulting services, trade execution and innovative risk technology.

Working at Validus can offer an exciting opportunity for both personal development and professional growth. Share in our mission to become the largest and most respected specialist provider of financial market risk services in the world. Notable benefits include a competitive remuneration package (salary + bonus), health care, retirement plans, and financial support towards professional qualifications.

Our core company values are;

• Accountability – Getting it done and owning the result.

• Teamwork – We succeed by helping others succeed.

• Integrity – We serve our clients; the responsibility is sacrosanct. 

• Diversity – Diversity boosts creativity – creativity is our edge.

• Kaizen – Strive to do things better. Innovation kills complacency.

Validus is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.