INTERMEDIATE INVESTMENT ANALYST - 71926

Executive Service

Who we are and what we do:

The Tennessee Department of Treasury impacts the lives of Tennesseans every day. Treasury is responsible for many of the financial operations of state government, including managing more than $125 billion in assets through its various investment programs. We administer the States Retirement Program, RetireReadyTN, which combines the state pension plan, Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, and the States Deferred Compensation plan. Treasury serves all Tennesseans by helping to educate and empower individuals to make informed financial choices, and by providing public-serving programs in the areas of college savings, financial literacy, unclaimed property, criminal injuries compensation, and more. The Investments Division of the Tennessee Department of Treasury serves all the people of Tennessee by stewarding financial resources for many programs that help the Tennessee community from a teachers retirement to a child's college fund, and beyond. We invite you to consider joining our diverse team of intellectually curious professionals, who embrace the unique value each of us brings to the group as we work together toward our shared goals. Joining our team offers competitive compensation, excellent health and wellness benefits, a top-ranked retirement plan, work-life balance and flexibility, a supportive place to grow in your profession, and a great city in which to live.

Job Overview:

Tennessee Department of Treasury Investment Division is seeking an Intermediate Investment Analyst to support the public fixed income portfolio within the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS). This position offers a stimulating and rewarding opportunity to work with a talented team of investment professionals in a creative environment. This position is located in Nashville, TN. The Fixed Income Portfolio represents over $13 billion in net asset value within the TCRS. This position will be responsible for assisting the portfolio managers with the discovery, research and evaluation of investments for inclusion in fixed income portfolios. This process will include industry, credit and statistical analysis. In addition, this position requires administrative work related to fixed income trading and portfolio management. After a training period the candidate is expected to also be actively involved in the management of the States short term cash portfolio as well as other pension-related fixed income portfolio under supervision. In addition to the TCRS portfolios, this position may participate in the management of other portfolios under the direction of the Treasurer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Active participation in the daily cash investing process
• Model and spreadsheet building to conduct research and statistical analysis of economic data and investments.
• Focus will be on corporate credit analysis, but may also involve structured assets.
• Conducting ad hoc quantitative projects for the fixed income portfolio
• Performance & risk reporting to both internal and external recipients
• Backing up portfolio managers in trading and portfolio management (monitoring and rebalancing fixed income portfolios to ensure compliance with guidelines and risk & performance targets)
• Working on fixed income administrative items, which are, but not limited to, uploading portfolios to a risk system, updating risk reports, fixed income models and economic metrics.
• Examples of other duties will be the daily cash update and capturing daily pricing data.
• Preparing fixed income presentation materials
• Contributing to the management of TCRS and other Treasury portfolios

Minimum Qualifications:

Graduation from a four-year college or university with a bachelors degree in an appropriate discipline Minimum three years of relevant experience, and/or some qualifying work toward either the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, a post-bachelor program in a relevant field, or an MBA

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.