What You Will Do
- Deploy client capital in global stock markets by generating trades for separate account clients, private funds, mutual funds and ETFs.
- Monitor execution quality and trading performance, including adherence to strategy, timeliness, transaction costs, best execution standards, and broker effectiveness.
- Manage portfolio implementation activities related to new account funding, rebalancing, tax harvesting, withdrawals, and liquidations for both Institutional SMAs and UMAs.
- Collaborate with portfolio managers, operations and compliance teams to coordinate trade flows, facilitate trade settlement and reporting, and resolve issues.
- Instigate and execute process improvement initiatives that enhance our trading function and the firm.
What We Are Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree (Finance, Accounting, Economics, Math, or related field preferred but not required).
- Strong analytical and organizational skills with a high attention to detail.
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for financial markets and asset management.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Team-oriented focus with a desire to contribute and learn.
- A mindset focused on continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Bonus Points For
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, formulas, VBA/macros).
- Experience or interest in using tools like Python, Power Query, or AI to automate workflows.
- Experience with Bloomberg AIM or other order management systems.
Why Join Us
- Meaningful Work: Play a key role in deploying billions of dollars of client capital across global portfolios.
- Learning: Work with experienced professionals and deepen your understanding of markets and portfolio construction.
- Collaborative culture: Join a tight-knit, high-performing team that values curiosity, precision, and impact.
- Career path: Grow your career in a firm that values ongoing learning, and professional growth.
Top Skills
What We Do
EARNEST Partners LLC is an employee owned institutional investment management firm. The firm primarily manages assets on behalf of public funds, Taft-Hartley plans, endowments, foundations, charitable organizations, corporations, and state and municipal government entities. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm employs a fundamental and a statistical analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to make its equity investments. For its fixed income investments, it invests in U.S. Government agency debt, U.S. investment grade debt, mortgage-backed securities, and asset-backed securities. The firm employs a credit and a fundamental analysis to make its fixed income investments. EARNEST Partners was founded in 1998 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional research operations in Brazil and China.
