Senior Investment Analyst - Portfolio Engineering

At HESTA we're a leading national superannuation fund dedicated to people working in health and community services - a growing sector of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, day in day out, right across Australia.

More than one million Australians trust HESTA with their money. So together, we invest billions of their savings globally, striving to generate strong investment returns and make a real difference to their financial futures. Our focus is on helping our members enjoy the retirement they've worked hard for.

T he opportunity - 'Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life' #careerswithimpact

Bring your authentic, passionate, witty self to this exceptional role.

As HESTA progresses on the investment internalisation journey, we have an opportunity for a Senior Investment Analyst to join our expanding investment team in a new role that focuses primarily on Portfolio Engineering.

The Senior Investment Analyst - Portfolio Engineering will play a key role in supporting the Portfolio Design team by automating and upscaling models, infrastructure and dashboards to allow for real time monitoring of economic, market and other signals that support cross asset research efforts on portfolio rebalancing, building/testing systematic trading strategies/signals, liquidity management, left tail risk mitigation, FX or inflation hedging.

In this newly created role, you will participate in the development of real-time portfolio construction tools covering both public and private asset classes to support scenario analysis of future investment decisions and incorporate learnings from past investment decisions.

Reporting to the General Manager - Quantitative Analysis and Research, you will work collaboratively with the Head of Portfolio Design and team members across investments. Principal accountabilities include contributing to a robust, scalable research infrastructure, ensuring models are compatible with existing data architecture and security protocols, troubleshooting and resolving research related model issues and handle the release of code fixes and enhancements.

Key activities will also include automating processes for live trading, proprietary data construction, data downloading, data cleaning and processing. The role also involves developing robust data checking and storage procedures, developing user interface tools and acting as an intermediary between investment management and investment execution (data and systems, operations, performance).

About you

With a passion for data science and financial markets, you will have natural curiosity, critical and logical thinking and enjoy collaborating with other team members.

The role requires a highly skilled technologist with quantitative skills and investment experience gained in roles supporting the data infrastructure needs of asset owners or asset managers.

Essential skills and experience include strong programming experience in Python (including NumPy and Pandas), SQL, VBA, Matlab and Bloomberg. You will have an understanding of risk management, knowledge of technology platforms to support research, analysis, modelling and excellent quantitative research and analytical capabilities.

As a HESTA employee, here are a few things you'll get to enjoy:

o Your leave and time off matters, up to 6 days paid volunteer leave, additional 5 days of leave at the end of the year, access your LSL after 3 years! Take AL at half pay, and purchase up to 2 weeks additional leave
o Your professional development matters, up to $5k per year professional development and up to 8 days professional development leave, HESTA scholarships and free access to a range of premium learning tools
o Your health and wellbeing matters, free annual flu shots and skin checks, incredible social events throughout the year and a comprehensive employee assistance program available 24/7

HESTA is a great place to work but don't take our word for it, we were named (again!) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality 2022.

We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures and abilities. We welcome and support applications from First Nations people, physically, neuro or culturally diverse, LGBTQI+, and people of any age.

We want all candidates to feel safe, included and provided with the best opportunity to thrive, if you require reasonable adjustments during your application or throughout the recruitment process, please reach out to a member of the Talent team *******@hesta.com.au and we'll call you to discuss.

We'll close this position when we find the right candidate, so lets start the conversation. Please note: Applications via recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position