Associate – Investment Analytics

Company	Arrowstreet Capital
Location	Boston, MA, USA
Salary	$Not Provided – $Not Provided
Type	Full-Time
Degrees	Bachelor’s
Experience Level	Entry Level/New Grad, Junior, Mid Level

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, or a Finance concentration is preferred
Direct experience in the financial services industry or asset management industry is preferred
0 – 4 years of experience
Demonstratable understanding of financial market, portfolio theory, and statistics
Strong data management and programming skills
Candidate must have proficiency working with Python, SQL, and/or advanced Microsoft Excel
Proficiency in working with large volumes of data
Outstanding attention to detail
Excellent organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to work under pressure, collaborate across teams, while meeting tight deadlines
Strong verbal and written communication skills

Oversee the attribution process: Manage production of attribution, including interpreting calculations, reviewing results, completing necessary checks to ensure high quality reporting, and disseminating. Own additional attribution related deliverables, portfolio commentary, and custom reporting.
Produce portfolio analytics: Develop analytics and diagnostics to help external-facing investment professionals monitor portfolios, identify and explain portfolio exposures and drivers of portfolio results. These analytics are used both internally by other investment teams, or externally to help our clients understand our investment process
Design workflows and streamline processes: Develop, implement, and oversee procedures. Enhance and automate workflows to improve the attribution function. Design effective hand-offs across teams to collectively improve our process.
Implement new initiatives: Work with the investment team to address various aspects of the portfolio construction process and the resulting impact on portfolio positions. Discuss ways to improve measurement and reporting of attribution analyses. Facilitate initiatives identified during strategy sessions, documenting planned actions, working through analyses, leading initiatives with developers / IT team to implement agreed upon solutions, and presenting results.