Northern Trust is seeking to manage investment strategies and portfolios to meet client objectives within specified guidelines, regulatory frameworks, and corporate policies, leveraging quantitative financial methods and research to enhance alpha generation and risk management.
Requirements
- Solid understanding of equity markets and portfolio management theory.
- Skilled in the application of quantitative financial methods, statistical and econometric procedures using standard software packages such as SAS.
- Knowledge of quantitative datasets such as Compustat, IBES, or Worldscope.
- Three to six years of experience in an investment management environment.
- Advanced degree in finance, statistics, engineering, or hard science required.
- CFA preferred.
Responsibilities
- Manages strategies/portfolios to meet client objectives within specified guidelines, regulatory framework and corporate policies.
- Rebalances strategies as needed to invest cash and/or accommodate admissions/withdrawals, effecting security purchases and sales through effective communication with the trading desk.
- Reports on performance of strategies/portfolios, explaining returns across multiple relevant dimensions of attribution.
- Supports on-going research efforts related to alpha generation, analytic techniques or risk management by reading current and relevant papers.
- Supports on-going research efforts related to alpha generation, analytic techniques or risk management by contributing to discussions on topics of interest.
- Supports on-going research efforts related to alpha generation, analytic techniques or risk management by conducting thoughtful and accurate analysis.
- Supports on-going research efforts related to alpha generation, analytic techniques or risk management by expressing recommendations for improvement.
Other
- Responds accurately and promptly to client/partner inquiries regarding performance of strategies/portfolios.
- Advanced degree in finance, statistics, engineering, or hard science required.
- CFA preferred.
- Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
- Flexible working requirements can be discussed.
