Investment Officer - Asset Allocation, Risk Management, and Innovative Solutions - San Francisco Employees' Retirement System (0922) (149792)
Job Description
What We’re Looking For
SFERS seeks an experienced investment professional for the position of Investment Officer (“IO”) for its Asset Allocation, Risk Management, and Innovative Solutions team. Reporting directly to the Managing Director of Asset Allocation, Risk Management, and Innovative Solutions ("Managing Director"), the IO will provide technical, professional, and administrative support to the Managing Director and the CEO/CIO of SFERS. The incumbent will perform difficult and complex research as well as due diligence work involving knowledge of asset allocation, risk management, innovative investment strategies, the capital markets, and the asset management industry.
Specific and essential functions of this position include, but are not limited to:
• Assist with the design of policies and practices that capture, monitor, and manage risks and exposures;
• Assist with the development and implementation of quantitative models used in asset allocation, risk management, liquidity management, cash flow pacing forecasts, performance analysis, stress testing, derivative exposure management for each asset class and for the portfolio as a whole;
• Assist with strategic and tactical asset allocation decisions including policy leverage and asset/liability research;
• Assist in determining appropriate contingency plans and risk mitigation actions for stressed market environments;
• Research, design, and implement innovative investment strategies that are differentiated from traditional public and private investments;
• Assist each asset class in appropriate strategy and risk analysis;
• Perform both qualitative and quantitative analysis to monitor investment performance, diversification, and overall risk management;
• Assist in developing and updating the investment playbook for investable opportunities and reactions to market shocks; assist with fostering a culture that supports disciplined rebalancing and opportunistic risk taking in the face of market dislocation and illiquidity;
• Source investments opportunities, conduct thorough due diligence and model portfolio construction, and review and negotiate investment management agreements;
• Provide recommendations/advice on investment structure, programs, and policy;
• May perform additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in finance, economics, business administration, accounting, statistics, or similar field; AND
Three (3) years of investment experience with an investment management firm, pension plan, university, endowment, foundation, corporation, family office, or consulting firm.
Substitution
• Possession of a graduate degree in Business Administration, Finance, Statistics, Investment Management, Economics or similar field, or possession of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, may be substituted for an undergraduate degree in a different field than described above.
• Two years of investment management experience at a position equivalent to an Investment Officer or higher with an investment management firm, pension plan, university, endowment, foundation, corporation, family office, consulting firm or other investment institution with at least $1 billion in assets, or seven years of such responsibility at a firm of any size, may substituted for an undergraduate degree in a different field than described above.
How to Stand Out
Desirable Qualifications: The stated desirable qualifications may be used to identify job finalists at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.
• Experience with quantitative investment and financial modeling for multiple asset classes and strategies.
Additional Information
Selection Procedures
Applications will be screened for relevant qualifying experience. Additional screening mechanisms may be implemented in order to determine candidates’ qualifications. Only those applicants who most closely meet the needs to the Agency will be invited to participate in the selection process. Applicants meeting the minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement in the selection process.
Additional Information / What else should I know?
How to Apply
All applicants must submit a resume and completed job application (all sections, including Experience and Education, must be completed) in order to be considered. Resumes will not be taken as a substitute for completing the application.
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