Principal (Multiple Positions Available)

KKR is a leading global investment firm offering alternative asset management, capital markets, and insurance solutions. The firm sponsors investment funds across private equity, credit, and real assets, and manages strategic partnerships with hedge funds. KKR insurance subsidiaries, operated under Global Atlantic Financial Group, offer retirement, life, and reinsurance products.

KKR is seeking a Principal to direct and lead investment professionals and external advisors in analyzing, structuring, and developing asset allocation strategies across the company. The Principal will evaluate relative value opportunities within private markets, utilizing market data and proprietary financial data, and oversee and track portfolio investments through financial modeling and valuation analyses.

Key responsibilities include providing asset allocation recommendations across public and private markets investment strategies, and driving quantitative financial performance and risk initiatives for various KKR client solutions mandates. The Principal will lead portfolio construction initiatives for KKR Private Market strategies, supervising and managing Analysts and Associates while working closely with Portfolio Managers to perform comprehensive portfolio analyses assessing exposure to sectors, risk factors, investment types, credit qualities, and other financial elements.

The role also requires overseeing and maintaining customized financial models tailored to the firm investment process and risk framework, collaborating with dedicated IT resources to automate and institutionalize these critical models, and making recommendations to improve systems and processes.

Qualifications include a Bachelor degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field, plus five years of experience as a Principal, Private Equity Analyst/Associate, Investment Analyst/Associate, Risk Analyst/Associate or related occupation. The position requires demonstrated experience delivering portfolio construction and investment recommendations to senior management, strong quantitative skills, and familiarity with private markets strategies across PE, credit, and real assets.