Senior Associate Investment Engineering

Job Description:

Senior Associate, Investment Engineering

Investment Engineering is part of the Investments Team within Dimensional. Investment Engineering is responsible for the ownership of investment data which involves, managing data from acquisition through distribution, driving analysis to create information from data, and creating the information and analysis consumed by internal and external clients and reports. Investment Engineering is a hub group that is involved throughout the implementation of the investment process resulting in the overlap with most other departments within Dimensional.

The APAC Investment Engineering team seeks a Senior Associate capable of supporting and contributing to key initiatives underpinning our daily implementation process. The work is team based across the globe and includes the responsibility for the quality and ongoing improvement of investment data within Dimensional, including security reference, index, fund, and all other data crucial to the investment process and to downstream reports. Success in this role will mean being accountable for delivering clean, accurate data to internal and external clients in a timely manner, finding creative solutions to meet firm initiatives, while collaborating with departments across the firm to lead change.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for Dimensional's operational processes around investments, ensuring that tools and systems built follow appropriate business logic while also leading their improvement.
• Compile and manage large data sets from multiple sources in support of investment team systems.
• Create and distribute regular and ad hoc investment data or analysis on investments, fund assets, returns, characteristics, and attributions.
• Execute regular validations to ensure inputs to research, portfolio management, and client reporting are appropriate and accurate.
• Collaborate with investment teams to answer internal and external client questions in respect to our investments and strategies.
• Validate requirements and develop new processes, in partnership with teams across the organisation.
• Lead ongoing efficiency efforts through automation, process design, and implementation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years professional experience in the funds management or similar industry.
• Proven communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to clearly communicate ideas and solutions to technical and non-technical teams.
• Passion for finding solutions to complex problems with strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills, combined with a deep interest in financial markets.
• Keen attention to detail to ensure accuracy while maintaining a big picture focus.
• Advanced computer skills (in particular, Excel), with the ability to learn additional programs.
• Demonstrated capacity for and interest in programming and quantitative work, including coding experience (SQL, Python, VBA, etc.).

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