Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is America's largest money manager, providing structured investment strategies such as indexing, risk-controlled active products, and exchange traded funds to investors worldwide. For 35 years, BGI has been at the forefront of developing innovative investment ideas, applying science and technology to the investment process. Headquartered in San Francisco and winning first place in the SF Business Times' ''Best Places to Work in the Bay Area 2008" Awards (Large Companies category), the Barclays PLC subsidiary employs over 3,700 people globally and manages approximately $2 trillion in assets.

Overview

Barclays Global Investors is seeking an Assistant Portfolio Manager for the U.S. and Global Equity group. The group manages a large number of funds across mandates (long-short, long-only and partial long-short) and breadth levels (from global large-cap to focused industry-specific funds). It is expected that the Assistant Portfolio Manager will play a large role in both the day-to-day management as well as the development agenda for one or more of the group's funds.

Responsibilities

• Assist in research agenda, including: construction and backtesting of new signals, portfolio level backtesting, data aggregation, incorporating new t-cost and risk models and fundamental research into stock characteristics at both the broad and narrow levels (including industry-specific research).
• Daily fund management responsibilities, including: portfolio re-balancing, submitting trade lists, performance attribution, regular performance commentaries, and daily monitoring of portfolio positions.
• Work with other members of the team in assisting in possible extension strategies, particularly the expansion of existing stock-selection ideas across a larger set of industries.

Qualifications

• Experience and demonstrated skill in fundamental analysis and financial statement analysis. Ideally the candidate would have prior exposure to translating fundamental insight into systematic quantitative stock selection strategies.
• Strong quantitative finance background, including familiarity with portfolio construction methodology as well as forecasting and statistical analysis methodology.
• Familiarity with the theory of financial markets and investor behavior as well as recent developments in applied finance and accounting research.
• Familiarity with financial data as well as financial data retrieval and management tools.
• Basic programming skills as well as basic familiarity with statistical analysis software.
• Experience with the handling and analysis of large data sets.
• Graduate level degree (i.e. MS or PhD in Finance. Hard Science considered assuming some industry experience.).
• 3+ years experience in portfolio management or equivalent sell-side research environment.
• CFA preferred.

To apply:

To apply, upload a Word or PDF resume to the following URL:

https://barclays.recruitmax.com/main/careerportal/candidate_update.cfm?szOrderID=4475

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is America's largest money manager, providing structured investment strategies such as indexing, risk-controlled active products, and exchange traded funds to investors worldwide. For 35 years, BGI has been at the forefront of developing innovative investment ideas, applying science and technology to the investment process. Headquartered in San Francisco and winning first place in the SF Business Times' ''Best Places to Work in the Bay Area 2008" Awards (Large Companies category), the Barclays PLC subsidiary employs over 3,700 people globally and manages approximately $2 trillion in assets.