Portfolio Implementator

ING Belgium; Brussel; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

ING Belgium’s Private Banking & Wealth Management unit seeks a Portfolio Implementator to translate Investment Office strategies into client portfolios and to construct and rebalance discretionary portfolios. You will apply each client’s mandate and risk profile while maintaining consistency with ING’s strategy and framework.

You will monitor portfolio performance, coordinate with Investment Office, Portfolio Managers, Risk and Operations, and contribute to improving tools and processes for

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of financial markets and discretionary portfolio management.
• Ability to translate strategy into client portfolios with proper risk controls.
• Experience with portfolio-management systems and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Construct and manage discretionary portfolios from Investment Office guidance.
• Apply client mandates, risk profiles and restrictions while staying aligned with ING strategy.
• Monitor and rebalance portfolios, asset allocations and liquidity needs.
• Coordinate timely investment decisions with Investment Office, PMs, Risk and Operations.
• Analyse performance and attribution, communicating drivers to Portfolio Managers.

Skills

Financial markets

Multi-asset allocation

Investment controls

Portfolio systems

Data quality

Collaboration

Job description

ING Private Banking & Wealth Management

• You construct and manage discretionary portfolios by translating the Investment Office strategy, model portfolios and instrument selection into individual client portfolios.


• You apply the defined level of personalisation within each client’s mandate, risk profile and investment restrictions, while maintaining consistency with ING’s investment strategy and portfolio-management framework.


• You monitor and rebalance portfolios, including asset-allocation deviations, cash positions, liquidity needs and mandate-specific constraints.


• You coordinate the timely and accurate implementation of investment decisions with the Investment Office, client-facing Portfolio Managers, Risk, Compliance and Operations.


• You analyse portfolio performance and performance attribution. You translate the results into a clear and personalised narrative for Portfolio Managers, explaining the main performance drivers in the context of each client’s portfolio, strategy and specific positioning.


• You contribute to improving the tools, data, processes and controls supporting consistent, efficient and scalable discretionary portfolio management.

A day in the life of a Portfolio Implementator

• You construct and manage discretionary portfolios by translating the Investment Office strategy, model portfolios and instrument selection into individual client portfolios.


• You apply the defined level of personalisation within each client’s mandate, risk profile and investment restrictions, while maintaining consistency with ING’s investment strategy and portfolio-management framework.


• You monitor and rebalance portfolios, including asset-allocation deviations, cash positions, liquidity needs and mandate-specific constraints.


• You coordinate the timely and accurate implementation of investment decisions with the Investment Office, client-facing Portfolio Managers, Risk, Compliance and Operations.


• You analyse portfolio performance and performance attribution. You translate the results into a clear and personalised narrative for Portfolio Managers, explaining the main performance drivers in the context of each client’s portfolio, strategy and specific positioning.


• You contribute to improving the tools, data, processes and controls supporting consistent, efficient and scalable discretionary portfolio management.

How To Succeed

We hire people for their potential and expect them to remain curious, keep learning and take ownership. In return, we support their continued professional development.

As a Portfolio Implementator, You

• Have a strong understanding of financial markets, multi-asset portfolio construction, asset allocation and discretionary portfolio management.


• Combine investment judgement with a disciplined and accurate approach to portfolio implementation, investment restrictions, risk limits and controls.


• Can analyse portfolio performance and attribution and explain complex investment outcomes in a concise, portfolio-specific and accessible manner.


• Work confidently with portfolio-management systems and data and actively contribute to improving their quality, reliability and scalability.


• Collaborate effectively with investment specialists, Portfolio Managers and operational and control functions.


• Take ownership, identify deviations or implementation risks and address or elevate them appropriately.

As a Portfolio Implementator, you will have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to the development of ING’s future discretionary portfolio-management model.


• Work across different investment strategies, risk profiles and levels of defined personalisation.


• Develop recognised expertise in portfolio construction, investment implementation and performance attribution.


• Help shape the tools, standards and processes that make discretionary portfolio management more consistent, controlled and scalable.


• Work closely with experienced colleagues across Portfolio Management, the Investment Office and other specialist functions.

The team

You will join the broader Portfolio Management team within ING Private Banking & Wealth Management. The team is responsible for delivering ING’s investment proposition through discretionary and advisory portfolio management. In this role, you will work closely with the Investment Office, client-facing Portfolio Managers, Trading, Risk, Compliance and Operations. Your focus will be on portfolio construction, disciplined investment implementation, performance analysis and narrative and the continuous improvement of the supporting portfolio-management framework.