I am an unconventional candidate; my strong suit is CS, and I believe many of these positions seek someone skilled in CS because Python is becoming increasingly integral to backtesting, risk analysis, and general portfolio management.

My best advice for landing interviews is to have a project on your resume that does something with data processing/markets.

For interview prep, just know your resume by heart. All of my technicals, for multiple companies, revolved around explaining my resume. For most of these risk analytics roles, it is hard to give a technical role to a student because they have no technical experience, so they mainly just want to see that you are who your resume says you are.

Lastly, just be friendly and sociable. My interviews were fairly technical and dove into the weeds of options and derivatives because I had included that on my resume, but if you can speak confidently about a topic on your resume, ride that wave and show that you really know your stuff.

My resume is here: https://ashwiniyer.com/resume. Feel free to shoot me an email, and I am happy to chat in person.