Quant Strategist

Location

Brookfield Place New York - 250 Vesey Street, 15th Floor

Business - Wealth Solutions

Brookfield Wealth Solutions (“BWS”; NYSE/TSX: BNT) is focused on securing the financial futures of individuals and institutions through a range of retirement services, wealth protection products and tailored capital solutions. Through our operating subsidiaries, we offer a broad range of insurance products and services, including annuities, personal and commercial property and casualty insurance and life insurance

Brookfield Culture

Brookfield has a unique and dynamic culture. We seek team members who have a long-term focus and whose values align with our Attributes of a Brookfield Leader: Entrepreneurial, Collaborative and Disciplined. Brookfield is committed to the development of our people through challenging work assignments and exposure to diverse businesses.

Job Description

Brookfield Insurance Solutions

Brookfield Reinsurance Partners Ltd. (“BN Re”) is a newly established division of Brookfield, which has been established by Brookfield to own and operate a leading reinsurance business focused on providing capital-based solutions to insurance companies and their stakeholders. BN Re will act as a strong, long-term partner in the sector, with ambitions to becoming the leading partner of choice for insurance companies in North America, the U.K and Europe. The group’s main activities will focus on delivering a wide variety of capital solutions to insurance companies and other industry participants, including reinsurance and other life and annuity-based products.

Quantitative Solutions

The Quantitative Solutions team is responsible for meeting all quantitative and analytical requirements of the business. The team partners with the asset allocation, investment and M&A teams to develop a robust quantitative analytics framework and design and implement models to inform decision-making and manage risk. This includes modelling various fixed income products and alternative assets, optimizing portfolios and investment strategies for various liability profiles and regulatory frameworks, generating economic scenarios, automating investment reporting and performance tracking, and managing and governing models and data. 

We are seeking an associate to join our Quant Solutions team. In this role you will provide critical, hands-on support in the research, development, and implementation of ALM, asset allocation and rebalance strategies. This individual will work closely with portfolio managers, internal asset managers, and risk management to implement new investment strategies within enterprise risk appetite and external regulatory constraints across multiple jurisdictions.

You will work in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment to build and enhance the analytics infrastructure. This role requires both Python and SQL programming ability and comfort with emerging cloud-based technologies. The objectives of the business rely on robust modelling capabilities and data-driven analytics, of which the Quantitative Solutions team will have broad responsibility over.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in formulating asset allocation strategies for the investment portfolio and perform optimizations around asset-liability management, returns and capital within the context of investment guidelines

• Monitor investment activities, exposures/capacities, liquidity management, sector, asset allocations, concentrations

• Research on capital market assumption models, improving existing quantitative financial processes, and developing new quantitative financial models and optimization techniques.

• Perform relative value and risk analysis to deliver strategic portfolio outlook

• Manage and optimize investment pipeline including analyzing new asset classes and their impact on capital, investment initiatives, and optimizing new strategies,

Requirements

• 2-4 years’ experience in a quantitative role, preferably in cross-asset strategies and portfolio constructions

• Advanced degree in financial engineering, statistics, mathematics, or similar quantitative field from a top university

• Solid programing skills in Python, SQL, Excel/VBA

• Knowledge of statistical and quantitative methods in macro-economics and investments pertaining to asset allocation, portfolio optimization, performance attribution, etc.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

• High attention to detail, intellectual curiosity, and motivation

• Ability to multi-task and work in a very fast-paced and team-oriented environment

• Experience of portfolio construction with prior insurance experience is a plus

• Willingness to relocate to New York, NY

Salary Range: $115K – 150K

Our compensation structure is comprised of a base salary and a short-term incentive program (cash bonus). Cash compensation tends to vary based on geography to account for local market conditions and is set to be market competitive. Compensation decisions are based on a number of factors including relative experience, overall years of experience, industry experience, education and designations

Brookfield is committed to maintaining a Positive Work Environment that is safe and respectful; our shared success depends on it. Accordingly, we do not tolerate workplace discrimination, violence or harassment.

We are proud to create a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are grateful for your interest in this position, however, only candidates selected for pre-screening will be contacted.