Analyst, Portfolio Management
About The Position
We are global private markets specialists delivering tailored investment solutions, advisory services, and impactful, data driven insights to the world’s investors. Leveraging the power of our platform and our peerless intelligence across sectors, strategies, and geographies, we help identify the advantages and the answers our clients need to succeed. Position Overview: The Portfolio Management Analyst at StepStone in La Jolla will support the maintenance, development, and debugging of the Daily Valuation Engine (DVE), maintain software audit trails, and manage the market data feeds used in calculations for the daily funds including SPRIM, STRUX, STPEX and Horizons. The analyst will work with the portfolio management and investment team to dynamically evaluate investments for risk, return, liquidity, and allocation targets for multi-asset class portfolios. The analyst will be expected to have financial knowledge that can be leveraged to support and construct analyses for portfolio construction needs. The role is broad and will require an entrepreneurial mindset. The analyst will work with the Data Science, Research and SPAR teams to collect, clean, and understand data as well as suggest models and metrics that are relevant for the concepts revolving around portfolio management and liquidity. The analyst will develop relevant models and communicate the assumptions and complexities of the models internally.
Requirements
- Bachelors, Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Mathematics, Statistics, Biostatistics, Econometrics, or a related field.
- Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
- Experience in a financial environment.
- Some knowledge of financial modeling.
- Strong background in Python and MS Excel; experience in SAS, R or Matlab.
- Deep understanding of statistical model building and data analysis; numerical algorithms expertise.
- MySQL or other database expertise.
- Extremely strong attention to detail to maintain code and data integrity.
- Positive attitude, curious mindset, and strong team collaboration.
- Willingness to work a flexible schedule.
- High level of confidentiality.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of PowerBI a plus.
- Knowledge of private markets a plus.
- Knowledge of financial instruments and Bloomberg a strong advantage.
Responsibilities
- Building and managing complex excel models using VBA for portfolio management functions.
- Understanding and exploring concepts of risk, return and liquidity to better manage portfolios.
- Model building and analysis using built-in functions and models developed from scratch in Python/R.
- Data retrieval and wrangling using MySQL and Python/R.
- Communicating the output of models internally, including assumptions and limitations.
- Discussing internally the merits of the models and analyses.
- Independent and efficient working style: ability to develop big picture ideas and translate them into code and actionable model output.
- Creating presentations for internal and external stakeholders articulating portfolio plans and investment decisions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
