Fund Services Investment Performance Analysis Associate 2

About the role

State Street's Fund Services team in Pune seeks an Associate 2 to support Global Performance Measurement and Risk functions. Day-to-day work includes performing absolute and relative performance attribution, reconciling and validating portfolio and benchmark data, investigating security-level discrepancies, and uploading data from vendor systems into department applications. The role also involves troubleshooting quantitative issues, collaborating across Operations, IT, and Global Performance Measurement teams, and communicating performance calculation details to portfolio managers and analysts. The position requires flexible hours to align with US-based colleagues for production issues requiring immediate escalation or resolution.

What you’ll do

• Perform performance analysis and attribution, including absolute and relative portfolio performance to factors such as security selection, asset allocation, and currency.
• Reconcile and update portfolio and benchmark performance, and validate, identify, investigate, and resolve security-level discrepancies at the transaction, position, and pricing level in Global Perfor
• Retrieve, validate, and upload data from various source and vendor systems into the department's applications.
• Validate completeness and accuracy of data in the department's performance, risk, and analytics tools.
• Communicate with Global Performance Measurement and Risk, Operations, and IT staff to resolve data issues and escalate problems to appropriate groups.
• Collaborate with team members to develop, create, and validate new performance analytical reports.
• Maintain and create a best-practice process workflow environment within the team and designated projects.
• Collaborate with multiple departments across the firm to support the firm-wide goal of performance return centralization.

What you’ll bring

• Postgraduate degree, preferably an MBA in Finance from a reputed institute.
• Good understanding of Equity, Fixed Income, and Derivative instruments.
• Knowledge of the Investment Management industry.
• Knowledge of security analysis and portfolio management, stock exchange markets, financial markets, dividends, trading, and settlements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Basic MS Office skills.
• Strong communication skills to answer questions from performance analysts, operations associates, portfolio managers, and other users.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot functional and quantitative issues and determine when to escalate to a manager.

Skills

Education

Postgraduate, preferably an MBA in Finance from a reputed institute.