About this role

The role will be to support the Global Credit team encompassing Global Investment Grade and Global High Yield teams with on desk risk and performance monitoring, report generation, client engagement, and business development requirements. The role will also include ongoing projects for the Portfolio managers including preparation of outlooks, written commentaries and “white papers” to explain the outlook for the respective asset classes.

The successful applicant will be expected to fully understand Global Credit investment strategy and be able to communicate this in both a written and data driven format, ensuring consistency. The applicant will be required to work closely with portfolio managers and various distribution partners, as it relates to existing clients and opportunities to grow client base. A successful candidate could grow the role into more areas of original thought, undertaking analysis into credit drivers and thematics, developing/expanding outlooks and producing original thought pieces.

The role is based in our London office.

What you do

- Work at AllianzGI London office, as a fully integrated member of the Global Credit team
- Monitor portfolio positions versus benchmarks and targets
- Work with IT/Risk/Performance Analytics teams to assist in the maintenance and development of tools to automate/make these processes more efficient (Cedar, Barra, Thinkfolio, Databricks), including making use of AI
- Apply data analysis to improve internal and external risk/performance/positioning/etc. reports
- Prepare Outlook books and provide written market reviews
- Work on detailed projects on behalf of Portfolio Managers as required
- Represent the PM team. This includes written commentaries reflecting changes in and evolution of portfolio structure and performance explanation of institutional client specific strategies as well as the resolution of client queries and any related business complexity issues
- Support the team by engaging cross-functional colleagues as needed (investment teams, business management, operations, compliance, legal etc.)
- Deliver quantitative and qualitative input and updates to the team for their meeting materials (investment reviews/strategy discussions) ensuring high levels of accuracy
- Assist portfolio managers with opportunities when required including data crunching, qualitative comments, portfolio analytics
- Demonstrate good understanding of the operational activities and strong interaction with the operational teams to solve escalated operational risk issues.

What you bring

- University degree or equivalent qualification in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, or similarly numerate degree preferred. Other degrees considered if quantitative skills can be demonstrated
- Knowledge of Bloomberg, MSCI, Thinkfolio, Databricks, AI tools would be preferable
- Excellent analytical and verbal communication skills
- Thoroughness, reliability, and attention to detail
- Hard-working, possessing a high degree of integrity and personal responsibility
- Intellectual and cultural curiosity – strong desire to progress
- Capacity of being a team player and to effectively interact with other AllianzGI teams
- A curious individual, able to contextualise problems and create solutions
- An interest in the linkages between global macro trends, geopolitics, and corporate credit
- Ability to seize the initiative and to logically solve tasks and problems
- Proficient user of the standard Microsoft office tools. Coding skills in Python would be seen as a plus
- AI Skills: AI/Data Strategy, Data Management, Data Visualisation, AI and Machine Learning, Python.

What we offer

- We empower our employees by ensuring flexible work arrangements that maintain a balance between performance, productivity, career development, and personal priorities (e.g., hybrid model/flexible working hours)
- Securing your future: Access to company pension/savings plans
- Shared success: Company share purchasing plan
- Support for what matters: Mental health and wellbeing programs
- Investments in your career: Career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group
- Investments in your skills: Comprehensive learning and development offerings, including certifications and professional qualifications
- Volunteering time
- … and so much more!

About Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager, managing assets for individuals, families, and institutions worldwide. Our shared goal to shape a future of opportunity for our clients is foundational to our culture and our values. We look to attract, and actively nurture, individuals with the drive to achieve excellence at every stage of the investment experience.

We believe an inclusive culture is key to a flourishing workforce. Not only do we celebrate the broad range of experiences, backgrounds, and attributes that our workforce brings, but we support our people to live and work in a way that promotes their own wellbeing.

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams, and challenges is what makes us a unique employer.

We are united by a shared commitment: to put our clients first and at the centre of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.

Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our clients and for the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion, and trust are at the heart of our culture.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

If you feel inspired to promote the active asset management experience, this is the place for you. Join our international, technology-enabled, and agile environment. Simply upload your CV in English to apply for this position.  If you need support to navigate our websites or at any stage during your application, please send an email with your request to  [email protected] .

To Recruitment Agencies

A llianz Global Investors has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Global Investors does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place.

Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz Global Investors.

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