Aviva

Equities Portfolio Construction Specialist

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Job Location

London, United Kingdom

Job Description

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

Equities Portfolio Construction Specialist

This is a great job for an experienced Portfolio Construction Specialist to join our Equities Team.

A bit about the job:

As a Portfolio Construction Specialist, you will play a key role in developing and implementing a consistent approach to portfolio construction across our equity franchise. Your main responsibilities will include:

Process Improvement & Collaboration: Work collaboratively with portfolio managers, constructively challenge existing processes, leveraging insights from the broader firm and industry best practices to teams' investment processes.

Quantitative Rigour : Explore process enhancements from innovative quantitatively driven approaches to portfolio construction across four key areas of our equity strategies: core, income, unconstrained and sustainable.

Alpha Generation: Enhance alpha through well-informed and effective portfolio construction techniques.

Infrastructure Development : Collaborate on building a shared infrastructure across the firm to enable best-in-class portfolio construction for high idiosyncratic risk portfolio including development of tools and techniques which aid active risk management of positions and the broader portfolio.

Benchmarking & Best Practices : Work with external firms where relevant to ensure our portfolio construction processes meet or exceed industry standards.

Performance insights and reporting : Support the Head of Equities with quarterly and ad hoc reporting with the development of dashboards and insights around the efficacy of our portfolio construction approach.

Skills and experience we're looking for:
  • Hands-on experience in portfolio construction and a strong toolkit of methods and technologies to support this. The ideal candidate will bring a solid understanding of factor selection and investing, with the technical and development skills needed to enhance our existing frameworks.
  • Multiple portfolio construction approaches
  • Advanced factor selection and analysis techniques
  • Portfolio construction tools and technologies
  • Collaborating within a complex, multi-strategy investment environment.

What you'll get for this role:
  • Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in
  • Eligibility for annual performance bonus
  • Family friendly parental and carer's 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
  • Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
  • Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
  • 21 volunteering hours per year

In this role you'll be 'Certified' under the Financial Conduct Authority / Prudential Regulation Authority's Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR). This means that we'll need to complete some regulatory background checks on you before you take up your role and we'll need to ask you some questions on an annual basis to make sure you remain 'fit and proper' and competent to carry out your role. We'll provide training on what holding a SMCR role means when you join us and annually thereafter.

Aviva is for everyone:

We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working -spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, send an email to GlobalRecruitment@avivainvestors.com

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Location: London, GB

Posted Date: 11/27/2024
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November 27, 2024
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