• Job Description

  Req#: R-02287

  Business Unit:

  Investment Division

  
  Job Description:

  Role Summary

  The equity team is managing large multi-strategy mandates for institutional clients. You will be working with the Global, Emerging Markets and Europe/UK equity teams in the London office, conducting tasks related to portfolio management, manager research and our own internal systems development and maintenance.

  The Graduate Analyst, Equity role is a 12 month FTC.

  The responsibilities of the individual in this position include:

  Regulatory & business conduct

  • Displaying exemplary conduct and living by our organisation’s Code of Conduct.

  • Taking personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct across the business.

  • Effectively and collaboratively identifying, escalating, mitigating and resolving risk, conduct and compliance.

  Team and Portfolio Management

  • Supporting Portfolio Management (Global and EM funds), Research and other teams as necessary.

  • Supporting all aspects of portfolio management along the investment process, implementation, portfolio rebalances, transition events and daily monitoring of multi strategy portfolios.

  • Running portfolio analysis, attribution reporting, performance analysis, ad-hoc reports, investment commentary and preparation of monthly/quarterly reporting.

  • Working with the investment team to build and improve overall investment process and investment outcomes.

  • Assisting and participating in research projects and modeling development to validate and improve the investment process.

  • Helping with development, maintenance and data quality monitoring of Russell’s inhouse equity analytics system (fund performance attribution and positioning).

  • Liaising with internal technology and development teams to enhance, maintain and develop a scalable and robust data and analytics infrastructure platform.

  • Using programming skills to create new reports (performance, attribution, exposure), automate tasks, introduce quality checks across a group of funds at a high level of detail.

  • Fulfilling ad-hoc requests such as charting and visualising market and fund data, as well as researching information online.

  • Running and interpreting analytical software output.

  • Assisting and participating in research projects and model development to validate and improve the investment process.

  Manager Research

  • Helping the teams assess the people, process, portfolio and performance of investment managers.

  • Participating in quarterly calls and research meetings with external managers.

  • Learning about different investment approaches, industry trends and focal points, such as ESG and Responsible Investing.

  The successful candidate will have extensive demonstrable skills and experiences including the following:

  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience / qualification preferably in an analytical, science or other quantitative discipline (Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Finance, Business etc).

  • Good knowledge of the Microsoft Office Programs (especially Excel and PowerPoint) is a must.

  • Bloomberg knowledge is highly preferable.

  • Strong analytical, organisational, interpersonal and communication skills required.

  • Experience in data modelling, data profiling, cleansing and translating data from multiple sources.

  • Strong and demonstrable programming skills and experience would be advantageous (Python, C#, VBA, SQL and similar)

  • Previous relevant work experience a plus.

  • Good presentation skills.

  • Strong communication and listening skills.

  • Knowledge of capital markets, portfolio management strategies, and statistical analysis.

  • Good technical and system skills including advanced proficiency with databases and spreadsheets.

• About the company

  Russell Investments is a global investment solutions partner headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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