Investment Management - Senior Investment Analyst/Strat-US

Talcott Financial Group* is an international life insurance group and the industry’s trusted partner for comprehensive risk solutions. Talcott creatively designs and expertly delivers responsive solutions that transfer risk and manage capital in a way that supports the strategic needs of insurers today and into the future.

Talcott Financial Group has a proven track record of well-executed transactions, and the enterprise benefits from its strong financial position with over $127 billion in assets under management, its investment-grade financial strength ratings, and its partnership with Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm.

Talcott Financial Group’s two core business platforms include: U.S. based Talcott Resolution and Bermuda and Cayman based Talcott Re.

The Talcott Investment Analytics Strat role is an investment analyst that specializes in data management, investment analytics, program management, digital product design, in addition to quantitative sciences, fostering collaboration between investment subject matter experts and technologists, to help make Talcott's Investment function best in class in the Insurance Asset Management business. The Strat team supports Credit and Structured Credit Analytics, Strategic Asset Allocation function, Asset Liability & Balance Sheet Management, Investment Compliance & Reporting, and Investment Data Architecture. As a Talcott Strat, you will be working in a small team where priorities often change, juggling both project work and business as usual delivery. While being a member of the Investments Team, you will be collaborating with the Technology team to bridge the gap between Investments and Technology.

Primary Responsibilities

• Business Solutions: Develop analytics and dashboards that are accurate, robust, and scalable in support of the investment management function: investment reporting, portfolio construction, asset-liability management, strategic asset allocation, hedging, portfolio and manager performance measurement, compliance.
• End to end Data Architecture: Develop and support the investment data architecture, building and maintaining an end-to-end process that results in a trusted gold copy investment data platform.
• Data & Analytics: Develop analytic methods and tools to transform and aggregate data to assess detailed risk exposures across assets, portfolios, entities, and managers, including look-through analysis for funds and other structured assets; and for uncovering correlated risks
• Data Management: Identify and integrate vendor tools/data to support investment analytics and decision-making (e.g., Aladdin, Intex, TREPP)
• Report Automation: Develop automation tools to support timely and accurate data and information flow from vendors and external partners, including error detection and correction.
• Program Management: Collaborate with Investment teams in both Front Office and Operations, and other business units where applicable to develop specifications and deliver functionality.
  
  

Qualifications:  

• Outstanding background in investment data & analytics
• 5 years. of development experience supporting investment/finance end-to-end system architecture.
• Programming expertise in MS SQL. Proficient with MS Power BI (Python a plus)
• Strong general and technical communication skills, with an ability to effectively articulate complex financial and mathematical concepts, and able to communicate with senior leaders/portfolio managers.
• Creativity and strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and in a highly collaborative team environment.
• Understanding of capital markets and capital markets products
• Understanding liability-driven investing (especially insurance liabilities) is a plus.
• Awareness / understanding of various risk and risk capital frameworks.
  
  

Compensation

This range represents the minimum and maximum annual base salary we reasonably expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range. The base pay is based on factors including but not limited to experience, competence, and demonstration of proficiencies essential for the role. The base pay is just one component of Talcott’s total annual compensation for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, long-term incentives and recognition.

• This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without current or future visa sponsorship.
• Talcott Financial Group is an equal employment employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, ancestry or citizenship status, genetic information, pregnancy status or any other characteristic protected by law. Talcott Resolution maintains a drug-free workplace. For more information regarding our Privacy Policy, please go to https://talcott.com/onlineprivacypolicy/onlineprivacypolicy.html