Who You’ll Work With:

The Investments Infrastructure team serves to create, support, and operate all of the front-office investment processes at AllianceBernstein.  This covers functions including quantitative research, fundamental research, portfolio implementation, order management, compliance, and trading.  The team has two broad types of roles:

·         Technologists:  These individuals include software developers, businesses analysts, process engineers, project managers, quality assurance specialists, and application support specialists.  They create software tools or support & enhance third-party software tools in the support of the front-office.

·         Associate Portfolio Managers:  The Associate Portfolio Managers, or “APMS”, partner with our Portfolio Managers to implement the daily management of our investment strategies, with activities such as rebalancing, handling cash flows, implementing trades, and overseeing account openings and closings.

The APMs and Technologists partner together to create portfolio implementation processes that synergize people, process, and technology to create processes that allow for great scale as well as great customization in our implementation of portfolios.

What You’ll Do:

The Operational Excellence team within the Investments Infrastructure group is focused on designing investment processes that improve our efficiency and minimize our risk in managing portfolios.  We bring an engineering mindset to our work, where we look to constantly improve our processes through automation, controls, and process reengineering.

This particular role will be focused on our Fixed Income investment processes, although there may be an opportunity to work on our Equities and Multi-Asset portfolios in the future.

 

What We’re Looking For:

We are looking for an experienced practitioner of Fixed Income portfolio implementation to help design our future investment processes.  Requirements include but are not limited to:

• 5 or more years of experience implementing Fixed Income portfolios, either as an Associate Portfolio Manager or as a technologies
•   A Bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, computer science, engineering, or any related discipline.
• Ideally technology skills, either as a software developer or as a “Citizen Developer”.  Desired skills include SQL, Excel, Python, VBA, C#, and experience with Business Intelligence tools.

About AB 

We are a leading global investment management firm offering high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional clients, retail investors, and private-wealth clients in major markets around the globe. With over 4,000 employees across 57 locations operating in 26 countries and jurisdictions, our ambition is simple: to be the most trusted investment firm in the world. We realize that it's our people who give us a competitive advantage and drive success in the market, and our goal is to create an inclusive culture that rewards hard work. 

Our culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration creates an environment where you can thrive and do your best work. Whether you're producing thought-provoking research, identifying compelling investment opportunities, infusing new technologies into our business or providing thoughtful advice to our clients, we are fully invested in you. If you're ready to challenge your limits and empower your career, join us! 

All are encouraged to apply. AB does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status or any other basis that is prohibited by applicable law.  AB’s policies and practices seek to ensure that employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants based solely on job-related criteria.

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