Portfolio Implementator

ING Bank Personeel; Brussel; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ING Private Banking & Wealth Management in Brussels seeks a Portfolio Implementator to translate the Investment Office strategy into client portfolios and tailor portfolios within each mandate and risk profile.

You will monitor, rebalance and report on performance, coordinating with the Investment Office, Portfolio Managers, Risk, Compliance and Operations, while improving tools and processes for scalable discretionary portfolio management.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of financial markets and multi-asset portfolio construction.
• Disciplined and accurate approach to portfolio implementation and risk controls.
• Ability to analyse portfolio performance and attribution and explain outcomes clearly.
• Experience with portfolio-management systems and data quality improvement.
• Collaborate with investment specialists, Portfolio Managers and control functions.

Responsibilities

• Construct and manage discretionary portfolios translating the Investment Office strategy into client portfolios.
• Apply the defined level of personalisation within each client’s mandate, risk profile and investment restrictions.
• Monitor and rebalance portfolios, including asset-allocation deviations, cash positions, liquidity needs and mandate-specific constraints.
• Coordinate timely and accurate implementation of investment decisions with the Investment Office, client-facing Portfolio Managers, Risk, Compliance and Operations.
• Analyse portfolio performance and attribution and translate results into a narrative for Portfolio Managers.
• Contribute to improving tools, data, processes and controls supporting scalable discretionary portfolio management.

Skills

Financial markets

Portfolio construction

Asset allocation

Discretionary portfolio management

Risk controls

Performance analysis

Tools

Portfolio management systems

Job description

Portfolio Implementator

ING Private Banking & Wealth 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 Implementor, 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 escal.

As a Portfolio Implementor, 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.