Senior Fixed Income Analytics Specialist recruitment
Purpose of your role
To support the generation of Fixed Income analytics for consumption globally by investment professionals, product teams and external customers. This new senior role specifically includes the management of the performance attribution process, alongside dynamically managing the strengthening of the risk and attribution function by improving techniques, managing resources and making recommendations for technology upgrades. The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of Fixed Income alpha-generating techniques and portfolio construction including derivative instrument risk characteristics and pricing.
The role will report to the Head of Fixed Income Analytics and have close interaction with Portfolio Managers (including representing the department at weekly team meetings), the CIOs and the Investment Directors. The successful candidate will also work closely with the Oversight Risk team.
Your key accountabilities:
*Ensuring that all parts of the attribution process runs smoothly and work is balanced across the team
*Management of the team priorities alongside the Head of Fixed Income Analytics
*Managing the department's relationships with external and internal customers
*Working with the Fixed Income team to understand and meet their requirements, especially as they evolve (e.g. strategy based portfolio analysis)
*Responding to ad hoc requests regarding risk and attribution from PMs and the Product Team
*Working closely with technology to ensure that the system capabilities are efficient and constantly improving
*Working closely with other teams that supply inputs to the department
*Development of a set of enhanced portfolio analytics alongside the Head of FI Analytics and the Quantitative Research Team
Your skills and experience
*Graduate, preferably in a mathematical or engineering discipline
*Strong experience in fixed income or risk/performance or an operational background in FI instruments
*Experience of people and process management
*Knowledge of fixed income derivatives
*Development skills preferred including Excel, Access and VBA
*Proficient user of systems ideally including: Barclays Point, Datastream and FactSet
*Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
*CFA desirable
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