Senior Performance Analyst Fixed Income - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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3 weeks ago

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Description

Role Accountabilities

Provide detailed explanations to fund managers on performance numbers, with a strong focus on fixed income attribution numbers
Ensure that queries are investigated appropriately and resolved satisfactorily within specified timeframes
Foster and maintain successful relationships between the team, its stakeholders and our outsourced providers
Maintain strong and regular contact with fixed income fund managers. Building trust and strong relationships with the fund managers and fixed income product specialists is key to the success of this role
Lead periodic meetings with portfolio managers to understand their requirements and help to implement solutions
Proactive analysis and monitoring of performance results to identify issues and sources of success

Skills Required

Strong working knowledge of Fixed Income Attribution and varying models used
Detailed understanding of underlying analytics used to drive attribution results
In depth knowledge of calculations determining attribution effects, including parallel / nonparallel shifts of yield curves, spread changes, allocation and selection effects, across all asset types including derivatives.
Demonstrable examples of adapting and customising attribution to reflect portfolio management decisions
Strong working knowledge of performance calculations
Understanding of a wide range of instrument types would be advantageous, including derivatives
Understanding of trade life cycle and investment management process
Be able to demonstrate skills in the understanding and debugging of processes and methodologies
Advanced excel spreadsheet skills required

About Insight Investment

Insight is a specialist asset manager at the forefront of designing and delivering investment solutions designed specifically to meet our clients' evolving investment needs.

Launched in 2002, we have grown to be one of the largest asset managers in the UK,winning industry recognition for our investment capabilities across liability driven investment, fixed income, specialist equities, multi asset and absolute return.

Innovation is key to the development of our investment capability and as leaders in our chosen areas of expertise we continue to look for opportunities to grow and develop our business across new client channels and countries.

The key to our success is andwill always be the high quality of our professionals combined with the partnerships we create with our clients.