Purpose of the roll

To manage a range of passive equity portfolios within the Systematic Equity (Beta) portfolio management team at SSGA Japan. The role will include all aspects of management for a range of regional and global index equity portfolios including rebalancing, risk monitoring and exposure management.

Key responsibilities

Manage global/regional/domestic equity index portfolios.

Perform daily portfolio management tasks such as: Review positions (equities, cash and derivatives) for assigned portfolios using internally developed portfolio and risk management tools. Generate and place equity/derivatives/currency trades in accordance with cash flows and/or index/corporate events.

Closely work with investment operations team for day to day process around transaction and settlement issues.

Support client facing team by providing comments and other inputs for reporting and all other communications with clients including periodical review meetings.

Regularly review investment processes for improvement to mitigate potential risks and enhance efficiency.

Perform research and analysis to support investment decisions for various occasions including but not limited to: Index and corporate events, impact of changes in market parameters for value add or wealth preservation opportunities and efficient portfolio management. Collaboration with global team including research team may be required.

Contribute to team/organization wide projects/efforts to achieve strategic goals and organic growth of the team and organization.

What we value

• Decent level of understanding in market mechanism of equity, derivatives and foreign exchanges and equity index portfolio management process
• Capability to perform and complete multiple tasks within limited time frame while maintaining high level of precision by optimal prioritization
• Insights and interests in broader financial markets to bring in new idea to add value on equity indexing
• Good mathematical, decision-making, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated good team player
• Adaptability to diverse and flexible working environment.

Education and preferred qualifications

• Bachelor or above
• 5 or more years-experience of equity portfolio management and/or 7 or more years-experience in the industry
• Language skill (oral and written) : native Japanese and professional/advanced English
• CFA, CMA or equivalent certification preferred
• Proficient user of Excel with VBA
• Experience with data analytic tools (Bloomberg, Factset, Barra, Axioma, etc.)

• Experience in ETF portfolio management and/or processing in Japan (preferably)
• Experience in asset stewardship activities (preferably)