Senior Analyst (Senior Associate), Portfolio Analytics, Capital Markets (12 month Contract)

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Portfolio Analytics of Total Portfolio Management provides advanced analytical capabilities to Capital Markets (Global Equities, Global Credit, Global Multi-Asset Strategies) and Total Portfolio Management (Trading, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Strategy, Liquidity Management). Portfolio Analytics partners with the investment teams to create proprietary analytics using both quantitative methods, ML and AI to help our portfolio managers make more insightful investment decisions and create new strategies or improve existing strategies to capture new sources of alpha.

As a member of the OMERS Total Portfolio Management (TPM) team in Toronto, reporting to the Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Analytics, you will contribute and lead our transformation of how Capital Markets and TPM improve investment decision-making through data driven and AI powered insights.

As a Senior Analyst in Portfolio Analytics, at OMERS Total Portfolio Management, you will be part of a team that produces and drives world-class data-driven analytics and strategies. This role specifically will deliver proprietary analytics to the newly established Overlay Management group. The Overlay Management group, within the Global Multi‑Asset Strategies (GMAS) team, is responsible for supporting the OMERS public market exposures by delivering, rebalancing, and managing cross-asset Passive portfolios, Tactical Asset Allocation, dynamic currency management, and Tail-Risk hedging. This is for a 12 month contract, with possibility for full time.

As a member of the Portfolio Analytics team, you will be responsible for the following:

• Ensure high level of data quality for our analytics by creating robust and reliable data pipelines with proper documentation, alerts and resolution runbook
• Developing analytics, tools and processes required to create and manage diverse flavours of investment data and analytics
• Applying quantitative skills to systematically ensure high quality and data-driven analytics to generate meaningful and applicable insights
• Working with different members of OMERS Data and Technology team to convert the analytical solutions into consumer ready analytical products

• Working closely with OMERS Data and Technology department to improve our technology stack

• Effectively communicating highly technical subject matters to the Overlay Management portfolio managers
• Communicating and working with groups within Total Portfolio Management (Trading, Liquidity Management, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Strategy) to gain a holistic view on how we operate and understand the overall business problem to be able to design the solution best fit for Overlay Management
• Own the complete product development lifecycle

You bring the following skills and qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in a portfolio engineering role covering capital markets
• Extensive experience with Python (Pandas, Numpy, SciPy)
• Extensive experience with SQL (Postgres/SQL Server), Redis, Parquet, query optimization, indexing
• Comprehensive experience with Github, Azure DevOps CI/CD
• Extensive knowledge of financial instruments and their pricing: derivatives (swaps, futures, options), fixed income (credit, rates), equities, FX
• Experience and extensive knowledge of quantitative modelling and analysis (Strong understanding of linear algebra, calculus, probability, and statistics; experience with stochastic processes, time series analysis, and optimization techniques)
• Experience working with investment teams and transforming business requirements into technology solutions
• A passion around learning new technologies and analytical techniques
• Strong attention to detail, highly organized and keen to learn
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• An action-oriented approach with a high degree of initiative and ability to deliver results
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Highly developed interpersonal and relationship management skills

Challenges and Opportunities:

• The role involves leading and delivering all the analytical capabilities for the Overlay Management group.
• The role will be integrated within the Overlay Management group and be working very closely with portfolio managers and the markets
• Opportunity to be closely exposed to public markets
• Candidates must be able to prioritize multiple tasks to complete deliverables in a timely fashion

You may also be eligible to receive an annual Incentive Award pursuant to our Short-term Incentive plan and our Long-Term Incentive plan (if applicable), and to participate in our group benefits and retirement plans – details on these elements of compensation are included within OMERS & Oxford offer letters.

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From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to support certain stages of the OMERS recruitment process. While AI assists us in our process, human judgment and decision-making remain central to our candidate experience.