Invesco
Junior Risk Analyst
Downers Grove, Illinois · Junior · Part-time
Sponsorship not specified$85k-$105kDetected 20 days ago
PythonSQLData AnalysisStatisticsLeadershipCommunicationPublic SpeakingCFA
About the role
- About Invesco As one of the world's leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients.
- By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world.
- If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.
Responsibilities
- Support index-relative attribution and diagnostics (sector/industry, factor, and security contributions) and translate results into clear narratives for stakeholders
- Help identify, validate, and explain changes in active risk, tracking error, and tracking difference, including key implementation drivers (rebalance timing, corporate actions, cash management, and trading costs)
- Collaborate with portfolio managers, traders, ETF capital markets, and internal partners to support effective risk oversight and issue resolution
- Maintain and enhance processes for risk, tracking, and performance exception monitoring, escalation, and documentation (including clear commentary for alerts, breaches, and material attribution outliers)
- Partner with Technology, Operations, Trading, and Data teams to resolve data breaks, support system enhancements, and improve inputs (e.g., benchmark files, corporate actions, index rebalances)
- Perform daily monitoring of attribution outputs and triage/clean up anomalies (e.g., missing/misaligned identifiers, stale or incorrect benchmark mappings, corporate action timing impacts, return outliers); coordinate with Technology, Operations, and Data teams to remediate root causes and document resolutions
- This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each other's growth and development.
- The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role.
Requirements
- It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
- The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.
Nice to have
- 1+ years of relevant experience (internships included) in investment risk, performance measurement/attribution, portfolio analytics,
- trading/markets, or a related asset-management function
- exposure to index/passive or ETFs is a plus
- Strong Python skills for data analysis/automation (SQL experience a plus)
- Experience with risk and performance/attribution systems and data workflows
- FactSet and/or MSCI Risk Metrics experience a plus (index, benchmark, corporate action, and ETF data experience preferred)
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or a related field (advanced degree a plus)
Skills
- Intellectual curiosity and interest in global equity markets, index investing, and ETF mechanics
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Well-organized, dependable, proactive, and detail-oriented (comfortable working with large datasets and repeatable processes)
Compensation
- The salary range for this position in Downers Grove, IL is $85,000-105,000 Base/year.
- The total compensation offered for this position includes salary and incentive pay and will vary based on skills, experience and location
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Health & wellbeing benefits
- Parental Leave benefits
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Produce and support daily/weekly performance measurement for assigned equity index and ETF portfolios, including benchmark comparisons, return decomposition, and tracking difference monitoring
- Provide ad-hoc analytics to support Equity Passive/ETF initiatives, new product reviews, index changes, and cross-department priorities as needed
Equal opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.
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