Fixed Income Portfolio Analyst- Python- Team Lead

Who we are looking for

Investment Portfolio Team, a unit of Global Treasury, plays a critical role in managing the bank’s ~$100 billion investment portfolio in order to generate income and meet State Street Bank’s liquidity and collateral needs, pursuant to the firm’s overall balance sheet strategy.

The global investment portfolio team is comprised of portfolio managers, traders and credit personnel across the U.S., Europe, India and Australia.

The candidate will be a Portfolio Analyst supporting members of the portfolio management team responsible for the analysis and distribution of key senior management reporting.

This is a critical role and the individual is expected to collaborate effectively within the team and across organizational functions including Treasury, Risk, and IT.

As a portfolio analyst you will support members of the Global Treasury CIO Portfolio Management Team which is organized by 3 broad asset sectors:

• Global Rates and Asset Allocation
• MBS/ACMBS
• Global Credit

What you will be responsible for

The Portfolio Analyst role will support the broader team by managing and innovating our global data infrastructure as it relates to the Investment Portfolio. This individual should be a thought leader, bringing new ideas for automation, new reporting, and more efficient ways to collect and manage data. This individual will also need extensive knowledge or experience in writing python scripts and working with Business Intelligence tools (Tableau/Spotfire/PowerBI). Ideally, this candidate will establish a more formal system that the CIO team can rely on to produce real time analytics with a high uptime %.

Main responsibilities include:

• High level working experience with database and programming languages such as Python,  SQL, and VBA, as well as BI tools like Tableau or Power BI
• Excellent analytical, Innovative and solution oriented skills
• Experience in broader Fixed Income is preferred, intermediate knowledge of at least 1 fixed income asset class is required (USTs, Supras/Sovs, RMBS, CMBS, Corporate Debt etc.)
• Knowledge of interest rate and prepayment modelling fundamentals
• Some understanding of macroeconomics and market data with the ability to synthesize this information and think about the impact it could have on our reporting universe
• Prepare reports on strategy, market developments, and portfolio risk exposures to communicate with Senior management and other stakeholders
• Responsible for monitoring portfolio activity and attribution reporting providing real time updates on historical actuals and market impacts to the overall interest rate risk profile of the portfolio
• Independent drive to find and solve problems in real time
• Team player who must show the willingness to work with global teams across time zones
• The ability to work with senior management, sometimes including Sector Leads or the CIO, to quickly answer questions and deliver analysis in our relatively flat management chain

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• BSc from a quantitative discipline, economics or finance degree
• Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills
• Previous relevant experience at a bank portfolio or asset manager of fixed income instruments