Performance Attribution Support Analyst

AVEVA; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment management firm is seeking a detail-oriented Performance Attribution Support Analyst for a 12-month fixed-term contract based in London. This role involves calculating monthly and quarterly performance attribution for various funds, ensuring methodology alignment and enhancing delivery efficiency. Candidates should have expertise in performance attribution, advanced Excel skills, and ideally possess professional qualifications like CFA or IMC. The role offers benefits such as a generous pension scheme and flexible working options.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Annual performance bonus

Family-friendly leave

Generous holiday entitlement

Up to 40% discount on Aviva products

Private medical benefit

Flexible benefits including electric cars

Aviva Matching Share Plan

Volunteering hours

Qualifications

• Expertise in Performance Attribution is essential; IMC, CFA, IOC or CIPM qualifications are preferable.
• Good understanding of the investment management business processes.
• A working knowledge of investment performance calculations is required.

Responsibilities

• Calculate and deliver monthly and quarterly performance attribution analysis.
• Provide ad-hoc attribution reporting support as needed.
• Collaborate with providers to sunset legacy systems.

Skills

Performance Attribution

Advanced Microsoft Excel

VBA capability

Investment management knowledge

Understanding of fund structures

Education

A-level or professional qualification

Tools

Aladdin

Job description

Performance Attribution Support Analyst – 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Please note this position is based in London and this will be the contractual location of the successful candidate; other locations cannot be considered.

We are seeking a detail‑oriented professional to support and safeguard the performance attribution reporting capabilities for Aviva Investors during the Titan programme platform transition. This role involves calculating and delivering monthly and quarterly spliced attribution analysis for approximately 100 Multi‑Asset and Equity funds, ensuring linkage across sources using preferred methodologies. The successful candidate will focus on reducing calculation risk and enhancing delivery efficiency through automation and standardisation.

Responsibilities include providing ad‑hoc attribution reporting support for bespoke periods and strategic funds, partnering with providers to sunset legacy dependencies, ensuring methodology alignment and migration to a single source via Aladdin, quality assurance and control of inputs and outputs (template validation and enhancement), collaboration with Client Reporting to enable straight‑through processing, prioritising reporting deliverables, raising input quality concerns, supporting the creation and use of linked performance attribution in client reports, RFPs, investment reviews and fee calculations, escalating and resolving issues with discrete period attribution, offering SME‑level insight into the end‑to‑end calculation process, providing constructive feedback to optimise execution, ensuring adherence to archiving and audit processes, capturing revisions and restatements, and educating users on the new self‑serve capability in Aladdin as the extended support period nears closure (2027/28).

Skills and Experience

• Expertise in the provision of Performance Attribution; desirable for IMC, CFA, IOC or CIPM qualifications.
• Ideally educated to A‑level and / or holding a professional qualification.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel with some VBA capability; Aladdin attribution calculation experience is beneficial.
• Good understanding of the investment management business – fund structures and processes.
• A working knowledge of investment performance calculations and techniques.

Benefits

• Generous pension scheme – Aviva will contribute up to 14% depending on your own contribution.
• Eligibility for an annual performance bonus.
• Family‑friendly parental and carers leave.
• Generous holiday entitlement plus bank holidays, with the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days.
• Up to 40% discount for Aviva products.
• Aviva‑funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it.
• Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars.
• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme.
• 21 volunteering hours per year.

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