Firm Overview:
Cambridge Associates is a leading global investment firm. We work with endowments & foundations, pension plans, and ultra-high net worth private clients to build, implement and manage bespoke investment portfolios that generate outperformance so that they can maximize their impact on the world. Our goal is to meet clients wherever they are in the investment process. We offer a variety of services to complement those needs, including acting as an outsourced investment office and non-discretionary portfolio management. Committed to independence since our founding more than 50 years ago, we are motivated only by what is best for our clients.
Our clients trust the experience, leadership, and integrity of our investment professionals. We have a global team of outstanding investment portfolio managers/advisors and an extensive research platform to support them. With more than 1,400 employees in eleven locations around the globe, we are constantly looking to discover new ways to add long-term value to our clients’ portfolios. This extensive network helps us to identify and access the best investment opportunities around the globe. Our manager coverage across multiple asset classes ranging from traditional equity and fixed income to alternative investments such as hedge funds, private credit, private equity, venture capital and real assets affords us the privileged bird’s eye view of investor portfolios and deepens our investment expertise and thought leadership.
At Cambridge Associates, we believe that culture is central to your success and ours. We believe in a vibrant, values-driven culture that is supportive, inclusive and diverse. Here, we get the opportunity to work closely as a local team serving local clients while leveraging our global community. At CA, collaboration wins, kindness matters and we hold true to a culture that enables you to succeed
Position Overview:
The Client Reporting group is tasked with supporting the firm’s investment practice through the production of monthly and quarterly performance reports. The group offers three performance report products including total portfolio, hedge funds, and private investments – publishing approximately 17,000 reports annually. CA’s investment teams use the reports as a tool to analyze asset allocations and total performance returns of various investment managers and to provide information on the investment strategy applied by each fund. The reports also assist our clients in making decisions about their portfolio structures. Client Reporting team members are focused on efficiently producing high-quality products and providing superior customer service to the CA investment teams they support.
Investment Performance Associates are responsible for all aspects of performance report production; including data input, exhibit generation, quality control, and client portfolio administration. The position is operations focused and includes back to middle office responsibilities to support CA’s multiple services. The Investment Performance Associate role is a great entry into the financial services industry and provides a wealth of opportunities to develop professional skills in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
We Offer:
- Exposure to a robust data platform expanding across both public and private asset classes
- An onboarding program that acclimates new team members to the firm and job responsibilities
- Opportunity to stretch professional abilities through junior-level leadership roles and teams including: professional development, recruiting, and finance knowledge
- Opportunity to become involved in colleague to colleague training and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Support and sponsorship for professional designations such as CFA, CAIA, CIPM, etc
- Sponsored community service activities
Job Responsibilities:
- Assume ownership and accountability for the generation and delivery of monthly and quarterly performance reports to investment teams for multiple client assignments
- Input data into proprietary database and maintain high accuracy of reports through extensive quality checking procedures
- Reconcile and track all money movements within client portfolios (e.g., investment manager subscriptions/redemptions, cash flows, private investment commitments, spending) through communication with internal and external parties
- Compare product returns to benchmarks; analyze and document any variances in the reported figures
- Create and maintain custom benchmarks
- Proactively communicate and address requests related to investment performance, deviations from benchmarks and asset allocation targets, and portfolio movements to CA investment teams
- Fulfill time-sensitive data requests and provide professional customer service to CA investment teams and clients
- Based on a thorough understanding of individual client needs, provide recommendations to investment teams for displaying performance results through the performance reporting products
- Other duties as assigned, as earned, and as the group evolves
Skills:
- Attention to detail and experience reconciling data across multiple sources
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; ability to interact efficiently with a wide range of investment teams and colleagues across different time zones and cultures
- Strong organizational and time management skills; ability to work on multiple projects/client assignments simultaneously, while ensuring timeliness and accuracy
- Adopt a proactive, customer-service oriented approach
- Ability to work independently and collectively as part of a team
- Highly motivated, self-starting, positive attitude, with intense desire to work hard and make an impact by improving processes
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong computer skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel
- Interest in gaining knowledge about investment vehicles and asset classes
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (all majors are welcome)
- Fresh graduates and individuals with 0-2 years of work experience are welcomed to apply
- Experience with investment portfolio accounting or performance measurement (preferred but not essential)
The firm is committed to the concept and practice of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. It is expected that all employees will follow a similar policy toward their co-workers.
