Job Purpose:
- The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of math and statistics and will use these skills to support the management and development of Northern Trust’s Taxable Fixed Income products.
- The analyst must have excellent analytical/communication/computer skills and demonstrate a passion for investments.
Responsibilities:
- Provide analytical support to portfolio managers and/or traders to support sector recommendations and relative value assessments.
- Collaborate with product development teams to research, model, and validate solutions for new or existing markets.
- Research or develop analytical tools to support portfolio construction or optimization, performance measurement, and attribution.
- Interpret analytical data and produce written summaries of research results.
- Participates in daily/weekly investment meetings and engages in investment discussions.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Deep understanding of the evolution of the ETF and the Smart Beta category with knowledge of products, competitors, the capital markets ecosystem and trading, including: deep knowledge of the ETF creation/redemption process and various transaction types; understanding of risk factor models as well as performance attribution and sources of risk and return relative to a benchmark; exposure to a factor-based and alternatively weighted index methodologies, not just market cap-weighted products is ideal.
- An ability to partner with other investment teams on investment and operational risk and proactively contribute to improvements in portfolio management, operational and risk management process.
- Strong technical and analytical skills, a background in quantitative research and the tools used to develop and implement factor based models; programming skills would be a plus
- Demonstrated ability to assess information, make timely decisions, and prioritize numerous tasks.
- Driven and highly motivated.
- Intellectually curious.
- High energy team player.
- Adaptable, willingness to be flexible as the product suite business grows
- Strong work ethic.
- High level of personal and professional integrity.
- At least 5-7 years of investment management and financial markets experience, including portfolio management, trading, and quantitative research.
- CFA or advanced degree preferred
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