Assistant Portfolio Manager - Quantitative Analyst

Legal & General; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial services group as an Assistant Portfolio Manager - Quantitative Analyst in London. You'll play a key role in optimizing portfolio management processes, leveraging strong coding and quantitative analysis skills. This position offers opportunities for growth in a collaborative team focused on delivering sustainable value.

Benefits

Annual performance-related bonus

Life assurance

Healthcare Plan

At least 25 days holiday

Competitive family leave

Electric car scheme

Discounts on products and high street stores

Qualifications

• Strong coding skills, particularly in Python.
• Deep understanding of fixed income mathematics.
• Experience in financial modelling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining robust systems for trading interest rate risk.
• Supporting portfolio implementation and fund rebalancing.
• Researching and developing analytical tools for market trends.

Skills

Coding skills

Fixed income mathematics

Statistical knowledge

Financial modelling

Education

Degree-level qualification

CFA or similar credentials

Tools

Python

Job description

• Full-time
• Permanent or Fixed Term Contract: Permanent
• L&G Business Unit: Legal & General Investment Management
• L&G sub Business Unit: LGIM
• Primary Location: London, One Coleman Street
• Job Family: Active Fixed Income

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Asset Management is one of Europe’s largest asset managers, providing clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, across public and private markets. As a global investor, we are present where our clients most need us – from Hong Kong and Singapore, to Chicago and major European financial hubs.

Created by combining our investment management (LGIM) and asset origination (LGC) capabilities, our Asset Management division works with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers – which include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions – and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Joining us means becoming part of a market-leading team, with capabilities across the full spectrum of asset classes, with an enduring commitment to responsible investment and creating long-term, sustainable value for our clients and partners.

Job Description

Join a collaborative and forward-thinking investment team as an Assistant Portfolio Manager - Quantitative Analyst

A fantastic opportunity where you'll help the Rates & Inflation team generate more alpha by streamlining portfolio management processes. You’ll be developing and maintaining robust systems for managing portfolios whilst supporting Senior Portfolio Managers and Strategists in developing macro economic views

What you’ll be doing:

• Developing and maintaining robust systems for monitoring and trading interest rate and inflation risk
• Supporting portfolio implementation through active view execution and fund rebalancing
• Monitoring fund performance and recommending improvements to portfolio strategies
• Researching and developing analytical tools to assess market trends and portfolio performance
• Enhancing investment decisions through innovative risk analysis and quantitative modelling
• Applying coding expertise to automate complex tasks using diverse data sources
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory, risk, and ESG requirements
• Contributing to a culture of integrity, collaboration, and client-focused outcomes

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

• Demonstrating strong coding skills, particularly in Python
• Possessing a deep understanding of fixed income mathematics
• Applying statistical knowledge to large datasets for quantitative analysis
• Bringing experience in financial modelling and automation
• Experience using Python to automate complex tasks using data from multiple sources
• Understanding global macroeconomic trends and their investment implications
• Having experience in fixed income markets and instruments
• Committed to high standards of conduct, integrity, and continuous improvement
• Holding a degree-level qualification, with CFA or similar credentials being advantageous

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares.Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.