Senior Portfolio Manager

You desire impactful work.
 

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

A Brief Overview
Create, manage, and direct investment portfolios, strategies, and frameworks while performing portfolio management duties that meet the risk/return requirements of the insurance liabilities or surplus. Directs and advises the creation and implementation of investment mandates and the selection and relationship management of internal and external managers. Emphasis is on the management, communications, and direction of portfolio management, investment strategy, and team direction and development; and relationship development and the creation of strategic alliances with external contacts and internal cross-functional areas.
What you will do

• Serves as primary contact for portfolio managers, credit, operations, GFS and GA teams. Provide management, oversight and direction of investment solutions.
• Develop relationships and strategic alliances with external contacts and internal cross-functional areas. Provide direction, management and oversight for credit related pricing assumptions for new business opportunities, in support of Global Financial Solutions, Global Acquisitions and Structured Finance.
• Suggest and review tools and models to support GFS and Global Acquisitions business development teams in analyzing opportunities and preparing pitch books.
• Manage and oversee strategies for new business deal opportunities including portfolio pricing and repositioning; implements and communicates repositioning strategies. Oversee all implementation issues relating to proposed asset strategies, including support of required approval. Idea sourcing and deal review direction and strategy; implements strategies and deal execution.
• Communicate with and manages new business deal teams expectations and workflow in order to meet business objectives.
• Oversee completion of new investment approval memos, and presents investment recommendation. Develop new relationships; responsible for covering assigned general partners and sourcing transactions. Decision making authority on whether or not to move forward with transaction.
• Oversee the hand-off of responsibility to in-force management teams, upon successful close of transaction.
• Interact with ALM team and oversee responsibility for strategy implementation; may serve on related committees. Lead ALM discussions, especially regarding investment-related ALM risks during scoping/pricing phase.
• Suggest, review and inform new tools and frameworks to improve investment solutions and investment process. Review and at times present regular periodic and ad hoc Investments reporting.
• Manage and train portfolio managers and/or analysts as direct reports.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) Business Administration and 5+ years relevant work experience or Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) Economics/Finance related field with 10+ years relevant work experience .
• Highly advanced investigative, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Expert ability to work well in an environment with multiple concurrent projects, managing project-based work flow within demanding time frames and adapt quickly to new methods.
• Expert oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge.
• Expert ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines.
• Expert persuasion and negotiation skills when working with internal and external customers to resolve issues or problems.
• Highly advanced ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects.
• Ability to balance detail with departmental goals/objectives. Ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions.
• Expert understanding of investment/market concepts.
• Highly advanced knowledge of asset liability management.
• Highly advanced skills in portfolio analysis and fixed income analytics (i.e. sector weightings, portfolio duration, performance attribution, convexity and term structure of interest rates).
• Highly advanced knowledge of fixed income markets including corporate bonds, ABS, MBS, CMBS, high yield, emerging markets, commercial loans, private placements, and alternative investments.
• Highly advanced Excel/VBA, Bloomberg and BlackRock Solutions skills.
• Highly advanced Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint skills.
• CFA or significant progress towards that.

What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.