Associate Portfolio Manager

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COMPANY

Allspring Global Investments™ is a leading independent asset management firm that offers a broad range of investment products and solutions designed to help meet clients' goals. At Allspring, our vision is to inspire a new era of investing that pursues both financial returns and positive outcomes. With decades of trusted experience propelling us forward, we strive to build portfolios aimed at generating successful outcomes for our clients. We do this through the independence of thought that powers our investment strategies and by bringing a renewed approach to look around the corner to unlock what's possible.  Allspring is a company committed to thoughtful investing, purposeful planning, and the desire to deliver outcomes that expand above and beyond financial gains. For more information, please visit  About Us - Allspring Global Investments.

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POSITION

The Investment Grade Income team is responsible for the management of approximately $40bn in fixed income assets from a diverse set of institutional clients around the world. The team is looking for a portfolio management analyst to assist with portfolio management, client servicing and trading functions for our separately managed account base.

The portfolio management analyst would sit directly with the portfolio managers and traders of the investment grade income team, and aid in the implementation of the strategy. This role would involve a breadth of tasks, from responding to client-specific requests, trade support, monitoring portfolios, and interfacing with other internal teams (ie. Accounting, operations, distribution enablement).

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Support Portfolio Managers with daily portfolio analytic reports.
• Provide daily support for internally developed portfolio and risk management system
• Maintain, update, and develop spreadsheets to support models, provide for presentations and meet reporting needs.
• Complete weekly, monthly, and quarterly tasks that include portfolio characteristics, return information, performance attribution, market commentary, and presentations for internal and external clients.
• Work with portfolio management team to help formulate and implement strategy

CANDIDATE

The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of experience in relevant capital markets roles, ideally in an investment grade role on the buy-side. Other relevant experience could include sell-side sales & trading, fixed income operations or macroeconomic strategy roles.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• An undergraduate degree in business administration, finance, economics, statistics, or accounting is preferred.
• Proven analytical, problem solving, and quantitative abilities that can be demonstrated through coursework in finance, accounting, statistics, and math, as well as in work-related and project management experience.
• Ability to design PowerPoint presentations that tell the story through clean, concise, and well-organized slides.
• Must be able to interpret complex concepts and translate them into easy-to-understand graphs, charts, and visual graphics.
• Strong technical skills with demonstrated experience in advanced Excel formulas and functions.
• Superior organizational, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication abilities.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, a quick intellect, and a willingness to work in a "hands-on" environment.
• Business experience through internship, co-op, part-time, or full-time position preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced and fluid environment

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