Job title- Senior Consultant - Investment Performance Attribution Analysis
Duration- 6 months
Location- London
My high-profile client are recruiting for Senior Consultant- Investment Performance Attribution Analyst. The role is a Hybrid position 3 days in and 2 days from home working normal office hours.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Act as a subject matter expert on investment performance analytics and measurement, drive excellence across this practice. Responsibilities include:
- Serve as a key subject matter expert and drive best practices across the firm regarding performance- and analytics-related content, for both internal and external constituents, across portfolios, benchmarks, and GIPS composites. This includes the understanding of performance analytics and implement best-practice attribution analysis and reporting capability, with multifunctional partners across the firm.
- Work with core-competency teams to develop, communicate, and execute the strategic roadmap for performance analytics, collaborating with both vendors and colleagues to achieve optimized results.
- Be a thought leader in identifying opportunities for digitization and automation to deliver both standard and customized reporting and insights efficiently, accurately, and at scale.
- Ensure governance and oversight of data processes used to calculate the values, thus facilitating compliance with established thresholds for accuracy and timeliness.
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to assess the current state and architect the future state operating models, processes, and capabilities to successfully support evolving business needs.
- Participate in the development of calculation and reporting data governance standards that are agreed and leveraged across global teams to ensure data quality.
- Stay informed of regulatory and industry requirements that may impact data elements required for presentation to clients and prospects.
Knowledge and Skills
- Detailed understanding of the investment management business, with expertise within equity and/or fixed income strategies including investment/financial technology systems. Familiarity of Alternative investment process, performance and attribution analysis are complimentary to the role.
- Specific prior knowledge of and experience with attribution analysis, knowledge of BlackRock Solutions' Aladdin analytics is preferrable
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- consultative skills ranging from gathering market and competitor insights, strategy development, influencing, facilitation and consensus building.
- Experience in driving digital and automation-driven transformation to generate efficiencies and scalability.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and with accuracy.
- Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences.
- Strong communication skills and decision making capabilities.
Proactively identify and implement improvements to existing processes to further gain operational efficiency and productivity.
- Lead special projects, process improvement initiatives, and/or the implementation of solutions to meet business needs.
Experience and Education
- Bachelor degree; CFA and/or CIPM designation strongly preferred.
- At least 5 years of work experience in the investment management industry, with a demonstrated track record within the performance and analytics space at a mid-to-large investment management firm.
- Proficiency with investment as well as reporting and analytic tools and databases.