Equities Performance Analyst

MG investments

MG Investments is Prudential plc's UK based fund management business and is one of Europe's leading active asset managers with more than £234.8 billion* of funds under management across fixed income, equity, property and multi-asset strategies.

-*as at 31 March 2013

Opportunity

An opportunity has arisen for a Performance Analyst to join our Equities team. The successful candidate will work predominantly within the Performance Analytics team, and will be responsible for calculating performance and updating regular performance reports, producing attributions and dealing with ad-hoc requests.

Key responsibilities

* Calculate, reconcile and sign off fund benchmark performance, and attributions

* Identify and investigate erroneous performance returns and attribution effects, using the appropriate contacts in Investment Operations and vendor systems such as (Factset/Bloomberg/Datastream)

* Working with the Portfolio Management Group (PMG) to produce reports for Life funds

* Produce regular and ad-hoc performance attribution reports for fund managers, portfolio analysts and actuaries on a timely and accurate basis

* Set up and maintain funds, benchmark, attribution models and stock classifications in various performance systems

* Propose and implement efficiencies improvement in systems and procedures

* Provide general support to performance team

What we are looking for

* Proven experience of Performance Measurement within an investment management environment is preferred. However, candidates with experience of working in an investment operations/accounting role would be considered.

* High level of numeracy, and proficiency in Excel is a must

* Highly organised and be able to deal with multiple tasks with tight deadlines

* Attention to detail

* Excellent problem-solving skills

Systems: Strong Excel skills, VBA, WM Spectrum, Xamin or relevant performance systems, WM, Factset, DataStream and Bloomberg

MG is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from a diverse background.

August 29, 2013 • Tags:  • Posted in: Financial

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