Posted: 29 January
Offer description
Job Description
We are seeking a Funds Performance Analyst to join our custodian team at {company}, a global financial institution. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day performance, attribution, and risk-related reporting services delivered by offshore teams.
* Participate in and support the delivery of performance, risk, and attribution reporting services.
* Take supervisory and oversight responsibilities for core performance production activity based in their global operations hub.
* Act as a lead contact and escalation point in the event of urgent or unresolved performance or reporting queries received from the operations hub or the client.
* Meet with clients as required to ensure the service delivery is of a high standard, maintaining a strong focus on timeliness and accuracy as measured by service KPIs.
* Assist with client change control aimed at developing, extending, or improving the existing service received by the client.
* Work on new activity set up and onboarding activities.
* Define business specification documents, create test & implementation plans, support and maintain project governance documents.
* Seek to optimise end-to-end production under your oversight, working transversally across the business as required.
* Working to ensure operational risk is captured and addressed, securing functional capabilities.
* Tertiary qualification and industry-specific qualification such as CIPM, CFA, etc.
* At least 2+ years experience in a performance analysis role. Within this, the following balance of experiences would be ideal:
o Experience working within performance measurement and attribution calculation and reporting function, within an asset management, asset owner, or securities services position.
o Experience working on performance-related project work (e.g. system implementation or process optimisation) outside of the normal performance reporting production cycle.
o Advanced understanding of core performance methodologies & attribution methodologies.
o Advanced understanding of market data indices, characteristics, and classification schemes.
o Practical understanding of ex-post risk statistics such as tracking error, sharpe ratio, alpha, etc and the ability to calculate from first principles.
o Practical experience using performance systems plus sound knowledge of client delivery systems.
o Practical understanding of multiple instrument types, including derivatives and how they should be treated within performance measurement.
o Practical experience liaising with clients.
o Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
