Jobs at Franklin Templeton

Provide independent equity portfolio risk oversight by conducting in-depth risk analyses (style, sector, country, cap-size), translating quantitative outputs into clear insights, enhancing risk monitoring with advanced analytics and visualization, and leading Aladdin transition, model validation, and dashboard improvements.

Support legal operations by reviewing workflows, designing AI-enabled solutions, building prompt libraries and SOPs, testing tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude), assisting contract review, regulatory tracking, preparing board/committee materials, and training colleagues on automation and workflows.

Provide independent liquidity risk oversight for short-term investment strategies by conducting issuer, market, and credit sensitivity analysis; perform stress testing; translate quantitative outputs into concise insights for portfolio managers and executives; apply AI and visualization to improve risk monitoring; lead Aladdin transition including analytics validation and dashboard enhancements; monitor industry and regulatory developments (2a-7).

Manage index and ETF portfolios to meet investment objectives and constraints, apply quantitative models and hedging strategies, control tracking error and risk, implement trading and tax-efficient techniques, influence ETF platform development, evaluate product launches, and collaborate across teams to execute initiatives.

Lead sales strategy and execution for institutional liquidity in the U.S. western region. Build senior relationships with corporate treasurers, insurers, governments, and intermediaries. Drive growth of short-term, ultra-short, and tokenized liquidity solutions, manage full sales cycle, partner with product, distribution, digital assets, marketing, and client servicing to close complex institutional mandates.

Perform quantitative analyses (optimization, simulation) to support insurance and pension clients on asset allocation, ALM, portfolio construction, hedging, and analytics. Develop and improve production engines, custom analytical tools, and automated solutions. Interface with client service, portfolio management, and risk teams and vendor systems to deliver, explain, and operationalize bespoke client solutions.

Leads national institutional sales for Taft-Hartley retirement plans across defined benefit and defined contribution markets. Drives new assets and revenue, builds relationships with trustees, executives, CIOs, consultants, and intermediaries, manages the sales pipeline, and supports client retention and growth. Represents multiple asset classes, coordinates with internal investment and distribution teams, maintains CRM activity, attends industry events, and executes strategic business development plans.

Provide quantitative and analytical support to portfolio managers, client service, and marketing. Analyze portfolios, prepare performance and risk reporting, produce client reports, market commentaries, RFP responses, and ad hoc analyses. Build internal and external presentations, collaborate across teams, and support product decisions using Excel/VBA, Bloomberg, and data tools (SQL/Python).

Manage full-cycle recruitment for corporate and professional roles, partner with business leaders to develop hiring strategies, leverage AI-enabled recruiting and talent intelligence, advise stakeholders on market insights and workforce planning, build talent communities, and improve recruiting processes to deliver excellent candidate and hiring-manager experiences.

Lead and deliver multiple large-scale cybersecurity projects from concept through enterprise deployment. Manage cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams, budgets, risks, vendors, and transitions to security operations while instituting project management processes, driving stakeholder communication, and ensuring timely delivery of proofs-of-concept and enterprise rollouts.

Provide Tier 1/2 support and subject-matter expertise for enterprise compliance archiving and Microsoft 365 Purview. Manage permissions, retention policies, eDiscovery cases, and data connectors. Build automation, monitor service resiliency and data quality, document processes, and coordinate with vendors and stakeholders to resolve compliance tool issues.

Lead SOC investigations and incident response in a 24x7 environment: monitor, triage, and analyze alerts across endpoints, network, identity, email, cloud, and applications; coordinate containment, remediation, and escalation; improve detection rules and SIEM/EDR/XDR tuning; conduct threat hunting and root-cause analysis; document cases, report to stakeholders, track remediation, and mentor analysts to raise SOC maturity.

Lead semantic design and governance for Distribution subject areas: define naming, entity models, metric logic, synonyms, prompts, certification, lifecycle, and change control. Partner with business, data, engineering, and AI stakeholders to resolve concepts and prioritize roadmap. Design validation frameworks and impact assessments for BI, AI, reporting, and data quality. Promote reuse, reduce duplicated logic, and mentor analysts to ensure scalable, trusted semantic assets.

Perform and review cash and security reconciliations, record investment transactions, prepare cash management reports, resolve complex breaks and overdrafts, monitor deadlines, recommend process improvements, guide analysts, and support reporting, control enhancements, and implementation projects for institutional portfolios.

Serve as the technical-business liaison for Franklin Equity, designing and building Power BI reporting, automating workflows with Python, supporting AI adoption, partnering with tech and vendors (FactSet/Bloomberg), and leading cross-functional initiatives to improve research, portfolio management, and operations.

Support Japan fund administration and oversight by analyzing accounting and operational data, investigating exceptions, coordinating with service providers and custodians, preparing operational reports, maintaining process documentation, supporting audits and business continuity, monitoring controls and risks, and identifying process improvements to ensure accurate reporting and scalable operations.

Responsible for day-to-day mutual fund expense management, TER monitoring, expense analysis, regulatory and internal reporting, reconciliations, controls, and exception management. Support automation and process improvement using Power BI, Alteryx, Excel/VBA, and AI tools while preparing MIS, dashboards, and supporting regulatory initiatives.

Serve as a trusted operational partner to portfolio managers and traders, providing expert support for trading activities, market onboarding, and investment operations. Lead cross-functional initiatives, resolve complex product/technology issues, coordinate with business, ops, and external partners, and support new product and market launches to improve front-office efficiency and client outcomes.

As a Senior Compliance Analyst, you will oversee compliance monitoring, develop review programs, assess regulatory risks, and mentor junior team members in a financial services context.

Monitor and communicate investment risks across fixed-income and derivatives portfolios, assess new and existing portfolio risks, analyze data for risk trends, present findings to stakeholders, develop risk analysis methods, assemble high‑quality presentations, lead projects, and mentor risk analysts.