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About the Role
The Ford Foundation is seeking an Investment Analytics Analyst to enhance its asset allocation, risk management, and manager selection functions by applying quantitative skills and experience. This role involves supporting risk measurement, developing analytics platforms, conducting asset allocation research, and evaluating portfolio hedges.
Responsibilities
- Perform quantitative and risk analyses at the asset class-level and endowment-level, including factor analysis, stress testing, performance attribution, and return decomposition.
- Prepare performance and exposure reports, market and risk dashboards, manager one-pagers, and meeting materials.
- Perform data collection, cleaning, and management across asset classes.
- Maintain and enhance the internal portfolio analytics platform.
- Build analytical tools for evaluating prospective and existing investments and understanding portfolio exposures.
- Use AI tools to streamline workflows and build new analytical capabilities.
- Support asset allocation tasks and research, such as the biennial Policy Portfolio Reevaluation process and investment strategy market-mapping exercises.
- Contribute to discussions regarding portfolio construction of the Foundation’s investments in externally-managed funds.
- Provide analytical support for market risk hedging strategies and tactical trades that may be undertaken by the Foundation.
- Assist in ad hoc special projects assigned by the CIO or the foundation’s leadership.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in investment management, quantitative research, or a related analytical role.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Well-developed quantitative and analytical skills with strong grounding in investment concepts.
- Proficiency in a programming language (familiarity with MATLAB is a plus).
- Advanced Excel modeling skills.
- Familiarity with Bloomberg.
- Demonstrated experience in using AI tools for impactful work.
- Ability to clean, manage, and analyze complicated datasets.
- Proactive, detail-oriented and proficient at organizing complex tasks.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Skills
- Quantitative analysis
- Risk management
- Asset allocation
- Manager selection
- Programming language proficiency
- MATLAB (plus)
- Advanced Excel modeling
- Bloomberg familiarity
- AI tools
- Data cleaning
- Data management
- Data analysis
- Organization
- Communication skills
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000
- Eligible to participate in the Foundation’s Investment Division annual incentive award plan.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Generous time off (personal, vacation, sick, extended holiday, wellness days)
- Generous parental leave policy (birth, surrogacy, adoptive, foster parents)
- Resources for backup child and elder care
- Comprehensive retirement benefits options (with employee and employer contributions of up to 13%)
About the Company
- The Ford Foundation is committed to creating a culture where everyone feels respected.
- Offers a hybrid working model and flexible work arrangement policies.
- Provides professional development and ample opportunities to build expertise and expand networks.
- Learn more about what it’s like to work at the Ford Foundation.
Equal Opportunity
- The Ford Foundation is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its programs, and operations.
- Equal employment opportunity and having a diverse staff are fundamental principles at The Ford Foundation, where employment and promotional opportunities are based upon individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation/affectional preference, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as established under law.
- The Ford Foundation does not discriminate against formerly incarcerated individuals.