Performance & Attribution, Officer recruitment

Our Company

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $21.807 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $1.866 trillion in assets under management at December 31, 2011, State Street operates in 29 countries and more than 100 geographic markets and employs 29,740 worldwide. For more information, visit State Street’s web site at www.statestreet.com

Promoting a culture of excellence

With more than 29,000 employees across 29 countries, at State Street, our people are our greatest asset. We recognize that highly skilled, engaged and productive employees are essential to our success. Our company values reflect our commitment to employee engagement, Global Inclusion and corporate social responsibility — to help you build a fulfilling career. Around the world, we aim to be an employer of choice by offering competitive compensation and benefits, personal and professional development opportunities, and a work environment that promotes a diverse array of people, ideas and skills.

Overall purpose of the role:

• Management Information Statistic (MIS) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) maintenance
• Produce accurate and timely Performance data
• Performance reporting follows a monthly cycle for the Institutional Marketing / Fund Managers / Senior Management.
• Each member of the team is an integral part of the process.
• All members of the team can provide and explain Attribution reports to other departments
• Each member of the team assists where necessary to produce ad-hoc Performance data for other Departments
• Provide feedback to the Investment Decision Process.
• Maintain strong internal / external relations
• Help drive team forward and promote team working
• Performance ‘own’ the GIPS Compliant Track records
• Performance reporting for T+15 Client Reporting efforts
• Project work

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Produce accurate Performance Reports using StatPro systems on a monthly basis for Client Reporting, Institutional Marketing in a timely manner and for internal Heads of Desks reporting.
• Relationship management and relationship building
• To prepare, input (via Download or manually) on a monthly basis the production an output containing Performance data to include Market values, Fund Returns and comparative Index returns.
• Produce Attribution reports to quantify and follow Investment Decision Process
• Produce Performance data for Retail Marketing (UK Retail and European wholesale) on an ad-hoc basis for fact sheets / key features / Adverts.
• Produce Performance returns for Board Papers and Report Accounts for all Product ranges – eg Investment Trusts, Unit Trusts, SICAVs, OEIC’s, Exempt Funds.
• Fundamental involvement to help maintain GIPS Compliance for FC
• Facilitate T+15 reporting requirement for FCNL, FCUK, FCIE, FCPT
• Perform ad-hoc requests
• Management Information Statistics
• Experience of Fixed Income Performance Reporting and attribution
• Develop positive relationship internally / externally to ensure smooth exchange of Performance data such as Clients / external vendors / Fund Managers / IT Dept.
• Familiarity with non-standard assets – eg Forwards, Hedging, Derivatives
• An understanding of Ex-ante Risk metrics . Explain and interpret ex-post Risk statistics
• Familiarity with interfacing Performance systems with Accounting Systems
• Training, developing and mentoring other team members
• Change management 

Qualifications 

Years/breadth of experience:
• Proven experience working in an Equity or Fixed Income Performance role within an Asset Management company 

Overall skills required:
• System solutions : WM Spectrum / Statpro Composites / Statpro Performance and Attribution / StatPro Fixed Income (SFI) / Factset
• Data feeds : Hiportfolio / Datastream / FACTSET / Bloomberg / External providers
• PC Skills : Advanced Excel skills (macro level) / VBA an advantage

Educational Level/professional qualifications (minimum requirement):
• Degree or equivalent – mathematical related subject preferred
• An aptitude for mathematical information
• Initiative and Drive
• PC Literate
• IMC or CFA preferred

Job Opening ID 
State Street Job ID: 60090 

Location 
Location: London 

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