Strategist, Client Solutions & Analytics

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients' capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world's largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns.

Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.

PIMCO is seeking a strategist to join its Client Solutions & Analytics group, focusing on Financial Institutions clients in Newport Beach, CA. This group leverages PIMCO's intellectual capital and resources to help our Insurance and Bank clients make better investment decisions. The group seeks to generate actionable investment insights for clients by combining a deep understanding of their objectives with an analysis of potential market opportunities and risks.

Solutions strategists take the lead role in performing customized portfolio analyses, publishing research and building bespoke strategies across a variety of asset classes in both public and private markets.

The Strategist will partner with the Account Management team to interact with clients, and design solutions to meet client's investment objectives. The role requires a solid understanding of all major asset classes and how they interact in a portfolio.

The team's key mandates can be summarized as follows:

• Leverage PIMCO's investment management infrastructure to help clients (CIOs, CEOs, Boards) with the macro issues of investment management, such as asset allocation and risk management.

• Generate thought leadership: Build models and generate intellectual capital for PIMCO's Solutions activities.

• Deliver (and present) customized analyses to clients and prospects: Become a trusted investment advisor to help PIMCO win mandates across products and asset classes.

Position Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years professional investment work experience, preference for 3+ years of relevant work experience in asset management, banking or insurance

• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills

• Strong interest in working on client-focused issues

• Strong communication skills and business acumen

• Manage a workload of multiple simultaneous projects while ensuring that deadlines are met

• Must work well in a team environment and collaborate effectively with all levels of personnel

• Strong investment knowledge base across all asset classes, especially fixed income and alternatives

• Reasonable proficiency with data analysis and SQL preferred

• Knowledge of Insurance ALM Modelling, and Risk Based Capital would be plus

• Actuarial and/or accounting background a plus

• CFA designation, MBA or Quantitative Master's degree (financial engineering)

• Fluent in English (speaking, reading, writing)

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