ALM/Derivatives Associate

Northwestern Mutual; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual is seeking an ALM-focused analyst to support the Derivatives Management and ALM within Public Investment in Milwaukee. The role emphasizes spread lending, annuity product ALM, and hedging program support.

You will analyze duration, key rate duration, and cash flows, then translate findings into investment implications while collaborating across teams to drive value and maintain high standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, actuarial science, or related field.
• CFA designation (or progress toward) or master’s degree preferred.
• 3–5 years of experience in asset allocation, annuity ALM, derivative execution support, or related investment analytics.

Responsibilities

• Perform ALM analysis for spread lending and annuity products, including duration and cash flow assessments.
• Develop recommendations for ALM activity and repositioning to drive value for annuity products and spread lending.
• Assist with derivative strategy analysis and execution support; develop knowledge to execute derivative transactions.
• Provide modeling and analytical support related to portfolio assets and liabilities, including private and structured assets.
• Partner with portfolio managers, traders, actuaries, and other stakeholders in product and portfolio management.
• Maintain high attention to detail and ownership in delivering accurate investment analyses.

Skills

Adaptive Communication

Attention to Detail

Cross Functional Partnering

Financial Market Monitoring

Industry Knowledge

Storytelling through Data

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/economics/actuarial science or related field

CFA designation or progress towards

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Bloomberg

Aladdin

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Job description

About the Job:

This role will support the Derivatives Management and Asset Liability Management (ALM) division of the Public Investment department, with a focus on spread lending, annuity product ALM, and hedging programs.

What You'll Do:

• Perform ALM analysis for spread lending and annuity products, including duration, key rate duration, and cash flow assessments used to inform investment decisions.
• Develop recommendations for ALM activity and repositioning to drive value for annuity products and spread lending program.
• Assist with derivative strategy analysis and execution support, and develop knowledge and skill set to execute derivative transactions.
• Provide modeling and analytical support related to portfolio assets and liabilities, including private and structured assets.
• Partner effectively with portfolio managers, traders, actuaries, accountants, and other stakeholders involved in product and portfolio management.
• Maintain a high level of attention to detail, intellectual curiosity, and ownership in delivering accurate analysis for investment decisions.

What You'll Bring to the Role:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, actuarial science, or a related field required.
• CFA designation (or progress towards) or master’s degree preferred.
• 3–5 years of relevant experience in asset allocation, annuity product ALM, derivative execution support, private asset modeling, or related investment analytics roles.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with the ability to work with complex data, build insightful analyses, and translate results into clear investment implications.
• Experience with Bloomberg, Aladdin, SQL, Python, and/or Snowflake is beneficial.
• Strong investment and finance background and passion, with a willingness to ask thoughtful questions and an ability to work collaboratively.
• Demonstrates initiative, motivation, and good judgment.
• Works well independently, while promoting and contributing to a strong team dynamic.
• High ethical and professional standards.

Skills You Will Have:

• Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
• Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
• Financial Market Monitoring: Consistently tracks and analyzes financial market data and news, evaluates trends and events that may impact investment portfolios or financial decisions, and makes informed decisions based on this information. Stays up to date on economic indicators, market news, and global events, and understands how they relate to investment opportunities and risks.
• Industry Knowledge: Demonstrates extensive knowledge of common practices, regulatory considerations, market trends and the competitive landscape within a particular industry / sector to better understand and address unique client requirements, challenges, and context.
• Storytelling through Data: Communicates insights and opportunities from a dataset, using narratives, visualizations, and analysis.

Compensation Range:

We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed. Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do.

Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds.

We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.

At Northwestern Mutual, we believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. These beliefs launched our company over 160 years ago. Today, they’re just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual. What started in Milwaukee, WI has grown into 7,000+ home office professionals split across 3 campuses: New York City, Franklin and downtown Milwaukee (HQ) - each one bringing with it its own unique talent and culture. In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual as we are growing our digital and tech capabilities and are always on the lookout for bright, tech-savvy candidates.

Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.