Fixed Income Portfolio Management, VP

Who we are looking for

Investment Portfolio Team, a unit of Global Treasury, plays a critical role in managing the bank’s ~$100 billion investment portfolio in order to generate income and meet State Street Bank’s liquidity and collateral needs, pursuant to the firm’s overall balance sheet strategy.

The global investment portfolio team is comprised of portfolio managers, traders and credit personnel across the U.S., Europe, India and Australia.

The candidate will be part of the portfolio management team responsible for developing the investment portfolio strategy and allocation of investments across multiple asset classes and currencies.

This is a visible role and the individual is expected to collaborate effectively within the team and across organizational functions including Finance, Treasury, Risk, and IT.

Portfolio Manager/Traders are members of the Global Treasury CIO Portfolio Management Team which is organized by 3 broad asset sectors:

• Global Rates and Asset Allocation
• MBS/ACMBS
• Global Credit

What you will be responsible for

The Portfolio Manager/Trader role will join the MBS/ACMBS team to build upon this vision to continue the investment strategy and portfolio positioning around key risks, such as duration, convexity, spread, and liquidity in the US Agency RMBS and CMBS  sectors.

Portfolio Managers are responsible for strategy, sector allocation and security selection in their area of responsibility. This role includes market execution.

Main responsibilities include:

• Develop a relative value outlook on US Agency RMBS and CMBS and derive market insight and a forward looking view within responsible sectors to guide the investment process
• Trade on behalf of the investment portfolio in US Agency RMBS and CMBS
• Deep understanding of macroeconomics and market data and have ability to timely translate these insights to investment views
• Significant experience investing, researching, and trading of various MBS securities such as pass-thrus, specified pools, and CMOs
• Experience with mortgage specific analytics packages such as Yield Book and Bloomberg
• Knowledge of interest rate and prepayment modelling fundamentals
• Communicate strategy and mortgage market specific developments to the boarder Global Treasury team
• Work with the Global Rates and Global Credit teams to coordinate investments decisions and execution of investment decisions across sectors
• Ensure investments are in line with volumes and metrics specified within the sector’s investment strategy
• Prepare reports on strategy, market developments, and portfolio risk exposures to communicate with Senior management and other stakeholders
• Responsible to monitoring portfolio positions and recommending strategic changes in line with markets movements
• Excellent analytical skills and Innovative and solution orientation
• Team players who must show the willingness to work with global teams across time zones
• High level working experience with database and programming languages such as Python, R and Tableau
• Knowledge and experience of portfolio optimization in light of the entire balance sheet’s duration and interest rate sensitivity would be a positive. 
• Detailed modeling/framework development/extensive analytical skills .

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• BSc from a quantitative discipline, economics or finance degree
• Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills
• Previous relevant investment experience at a bank portfolio or asset manager of fixed income instruments, specifically US Agency RMBS/CMBS

Are you the right candidate? Yes!

We truly believe in the power that comes from the diverse backgrounds and experiences our employees bring with them. Although each vacancy details what we are looking for, we don’t necessarily need you to fulfil all of them when applying. If you like change and innovation, seek to see the bigger picture, make data driven decisions and are a good team player, you could be a great fit.

About State Street

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