Portfolio Associate

Bridgewater Associates • Westport, CT

101d • $140,000 - $220,000

About The Position

You will operate the systematized investment logic we use to create ideal portfolios for our clients. You will oversee a set of processes that ingests updated market data along with our view from our research department, applies portfolio construction logic, risk controls, and client specific constraints to determine those ideal portfolios. You will oversee our logic for choosing which instruments we want to hold and then deliver the set of trades necessary to implement our portfolios to our trading department. You will regularly communicate your understanding and assessment to a diverse group of people, including senior investment managers, traders, and developers. You will partner with technologists and researchers to constantly improve our processes, focusing on increasing efficiency or the implementation of new logic or portfolios.

Requirements

• 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution
• 3+ years of relevant work experience at an investment bank or asset management firm
• Experience with portfolio construction and risk management techniques

Nice To Haves

• Analytical, highly logical, and structured
• Deeply interested in understanding financial markets
• Think in terms of systems and naturally look for ways to solve problems through the evolution of those systems
• Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do

Responsibilities

• Executing and overseeing the systematized logic we use to generate client portfolios and trades every day
• Understanding and effectively communicating the state of those portfolios to our senior investment teams and CIOs
• Working with technologists and researchers to construct new investment implementation systems or overhaul old ones
• Driving initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the systems you own
• Evolving the methods and best practices used by the broader investment community

Benefits

• Competitive suite of benefits
• Discretionary target bonus

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree