Investment Analyst, Index

About Northern Trust :

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity.

With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role Summary :

Responsible for reviewing and analyzing equity and fixed income investment data to formulate investment recommendations for investment managers and clients.

Researches and identifies securities to purchase and evaluates the current portfolio holdings. Interprets investment trends and gathers information for analyses.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Administers and analyzes the construction of indices to determine whether the current holdings are meeting stated objectives;

makes recommendations, and formally presents their work to amend rules and / or processes to a working group as appropriate.

• Supports the team by trouble-shooting time-sensitive, complex, client queries.
• Participates in projects as required. Projects may include efforts to improve and expand our index offerings by working collaboratively with our quantitative research team, developing & and improving our internal technology and process capabilities, as well as gathering research for ad-hoc reporting (such as attribution analysis).
• Monitors developments and new industry trends in indexing, as well as factor-based investment research.

The successful candidate will benefit from having :

• Bachelor's degree with 3 - 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience with relational databases, Python, R, SAS, SQL, Tableau, or version control software preferred
• Prior experience with quantitative research, index / portfolio construction or equivalent preferred

Working with Us :

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

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We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.