Financial Institutions Group, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager (AUD/NZD), Associate

About This Role

BlackRock’s Fixed Income team runs more than $1 trillion in global fixed income assets across index, active long-only, alternative, and liability driven strategies. The platform offers fixed income investors one of the industry's broadest array of investment choices across model-based and fundamental investment styles.

The Financial Institutions Group is seeking a candidate to join the team as a junior Portfolio Manager in Sydney, Australia working on AUD/NZD denominated portfolios. The FIG team manages a wide range of Fixed Income portfolios for financial institutions, including $12bn in AUD/NZD denominated portfolios. The successful candidate will work with the Lead PM to support the day-to-day management of the portfolios. This will include monitoring portfolio positioning (including cash, risk levels and compliance with investment guidelines), ensuring consistency across portfolios, raising orders on portfolios, and liaising with our partner teams (like credit research, risk and trading) on the portfolios. The candidate will also be expected to contribute to alpha, yield, and idea generation by providing assistance throughout the life cycle of an investment and its implementation in portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the FIG Portfolio Management Team based in Sydney, covering AUD and NZD denominated portfolios and assets.
• Analytical work with a focus on fixed income modelling such as: relative value, carry & roll down, book yield, duration & curve etc.
• Understanding and calculation of solvency capital requirements for insurance portfolios and local regulatory requirements such as APRA GPS120.
• Research: ability to produce in-depth original research for investment purposes as required by clients and the wider team.
• Develop bottom-up knowledge of the issuers we invest understanding the fundamental credit research process and liaising with the credit research team.
• Daily market screening of primary and secondary offers, suggesting and implementing trades based on fundamentals and technical factors.
• Portfolio management: daily monitoring of selected portfolios, including setup, ongoing evaluation, execution, and management of investments through new issue and secondary market transactions.
• In-depth knowledge of the mandates (including guidelines and investment objectives), performance assessment (total return, book yield alpha).
• Preparation of presentations both for clients’ benefit and for internal purposes, assist on new opportunities.
• Coordination with other teams and build strong working partnership: primarily but not limited to credit research, trading desk, trade operations, RQA, and client relationship team.
• Coding: maintain and develop Python code to support portfolio management activities in the effort to create scalable and robust processes.

Eligibility

Minimum 3 years of experience and knowledge of Fixed Income markets strongly desired with experience in capital markets Fixed income and general finance knowledge, including an understanding of bond math and risk. Ability to learn fixed income markets, including complexities of different issue types, liquidity, and trading. Ability to grasp quantitative concepts of risk and exposure, and their application to portfolio management. Technical skills including advanced Excel, Aladdin and SQL/VBA/Python programming experience a strong plus. Ability to adapt quickly to changing market environments and perform under tight time constraints. Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Proactive individual with a desire to learn and take on responsibility. Strong interpersonal skills, work ethic and leadership.

Benefits

• To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

About Company

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

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