Equity Performance Analyst looking for a fresh new career challenge? recruitment
With your performance measurement expertise and knowledge of the equity markets, corporate actions data, stock indices etc and handling of such data sets in a performance function, you’ll play a key role in shaping this company’s’ proposition for client institutions. You’ll take the lead on a number of projects involving a wide range of tasks to help build-out and execute different performance measurement related services involving daily stock valuations, provision of corporate actions data, historical pricing and benchmark constituents etc. The key to this role is product consulting in terms of bringing the right use of data into the performance function.
The company itself is a very well established North American investment solutions consulting services to asset managers. In particular they have a strong performance measurement service offering they want to expand upon in the region, hence strengthening their local product consulting team in Montreal Canada in a newly created role.
We are looking for applicants who have:
- a strong knowledge of performance measurement foremost, and secondly equity index data analysis. The key to this role is understanding how “data meets performance” and effect of different data on total return of a portfolio etc. Ability to understand/empathise with problems faced, with a view to deriving at operational solutions to increase performance calculation efficiency and accuracy is important.
- worked on a performance desk as a performance analyst with an asset management institution, and/or gained the requisite performance knowledge working for a consultancy, software or services company. AIMR-PPS / GIPS related knowledge training etc would be good to see.
- the ability to define business requirements and specifications.
- strong communication skills to liaise across different areas of the business internally and externally
- very precise, accurate and detail orientated nature, ability to get into the detail and accuracy of datasets.
Great opportunity to use your performance experience and move your career onwards and upwards with lots to learn and experience in a varied and challenging role. If you’re at least intrigued to learn more please apply now!