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Senior Portfolio Risk Analyst
The Senior Analyst will join the Equity Risk Analysis Group, a team of seven providing quantitative support to investment teams for equity strategies and multi-asset strategies globally, as well as for the firm's senior management. The team's duties include acquiring and analyzing data related to research projects; designing, building, and maintaining quantitative stock-ranking models; using risk models to understand systematic risk exposures and their consequences; presenting analysis and research results in both written and spoken form; and creating robust, extensible portfolio analytics. The successful candidate will have a strong interest in managing and interpreting data sets related to equity strategies and multi-asset strategies, and enthusiasm for solving problems and communicating the results to end users. The typical duties of the Senior Analyst are likely to include the following:
- Analyze portfolio construction as well as risk and return for equity and multi-asset portfolios, finding creative ways to display research results
- Build direct line of communication with portfolio management teams
- Respond to ad-hoc questions from portfolio managers, clients, and other stakeholders
- Set up and troubleshoot processes to generate and visualize meaningful data sets using standard data sources
- Efficiently leverage third-party tools, such as FactSet and Bloomberg, and maintain existing processes on these platforms
- Act as domain expert for other team members as required
Key traits
- Master's degree or higher in Finance, Statistics, Computational Finance, or other relevant field, or equivalent professional experience. CFA preferred.
- At least three years of prior experience in a role emphasizing quantitative analysis of equity portfolios
- Strong programming and scripting skills, with knowledge of at least two of MATLAB, Python, R, SQL, and VBA
- Demonstrated ability to harness technology to analyze data and gain insights
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Creative problem-solving skills and a drive to tackle difficult tasks
- Strong communication skills, both spoken and written; public speaking experience a plus.
- Attention to detail
About Macquarie Asset Management
In Macquarie Asset Management you will join a global asset manager that aims to deliver positive impact for everyone. Trusted by institutions, pension funds, governments, and individuals to manage more than A$773/€523/£440/$US578 billion in assets globally, we provide access to specialist investment expertise across a range of capabilities including fixed income, equities, multi-asset solutions, private credit, infrastructure, green investments, natural assets, real estate, and asset finance.
All figures as at 31 March 2022.
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