Junior Portfolio Engineer, 100% (f/m/d)

Julius Baer; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Julius Baer in Switzerland is seeking a highly quantitative risk and portfolio engineering specialist to optimize strategic asset allocations for large bespoke UHNW mandates and to provide robust quantitative support to the Investment Committee.

You will maintain and automate our proprietary data series and related tools, delivering timely analyses and insights to portfolio managers and relationship managers.

Qualifikationen

• Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative field (math, engineering, finance).
• At least 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Hands-on portfolio optimization experience is a plus.
• Proficiency in English; German or French is helpful.

Aufgaben

• Deliver strategic asset allocation optimizations and quantitative analysis for large bespoke mandates for UHNW portfolios.
• Maintain, automate and improve our proprietary financial data series database and related tools.
• Provide high-quality quantitative support for the Investment Committee.

Kenntnisse

Portfolio optimization

Programming

Data analysis

English

German

French

Ausbildung

Master’s or PhD in quantitative field (math, engineering, finance)

Tools

MATLAB

MS Access

Jobbeschreibung

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

The Investment Risk & Portfolio Engineering team is part of the CIO Office which is responsible for managing all discretionary mandates of Julius Baer.

We are responsible for maintaining the asset allocations for all multi asset class mandates. We design and update the strategic and tactical asset allocations for these mandates, provide quantitative analysis to the Investment Committee and run ex-ante risk and liquidity reports.

We also manage the market and liquidity risk of our discretionary mandates and all our funds, equity, fixed income and multi-asset. Support of portfolio managers for portfolio construction and relationship managers with optimizations and analysis for bespoke mandates for ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) clients is also part of our role. We build, maintain and improve our proprietary tools deployed for our daily job.

We are looking for a motivated new colleague to expand our team and help us with our growing responsibilities.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Deliver strategic asset allocation optimizations and quantitative analysis for large bespoke mandates to relationship managers for UHNW portfolios and participate in client meetings upon request
• Maintain, further automate and constantly improve our proprietary financial data series database as well as related tools and processes
• Provide high-quality and timely quantitative support for our Investment Committee

YOUR PROFILE

• A Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative subject (e.g. math, engineering, finance)
• At least 2 years of relevant work experience
• Hands-on experience of portfolio optimization is a plus
• Strong IT skills, including programming and data analysis experience. Working knowledge of MATLAB (or similar programming language) and databases, such as MS ACCESS is required
• Proficiency in English, as well as German or French (both spoken and written)
• Comfortable presenting results to groups of portfolio managers and senior management
• Highly motivated, reliable and well-organized team player

We are looking forward to receiving your full job application through our online application tool. Further interesting job opportunities can be found on our Career site.