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State Street

Holds assets for institutions and runs index funds

ETF Portfolio Analytics Director - Vice President

Asset ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeKraków, PolandIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Excellent quantitative, portfolio analysis, and investment interpretation skills.
  • Strong understanding of portfolio construction, asset allocation, diversification, risk decomposition, scenario analysis, and performance drivers.
  • Ability to identify portfolio vulnerabilities and distinguish material risks from less decision-relevant observations.
  • Ability to evaluate funds as portfolio building blocks and explain how different exposures may serve different investor objectives.
  • Experience designing analytical frameworks, automating processes, and developing scalable tools.
  • Strong attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy when working under pressure.
  • Ability to prioritize work, exercise sound judgment, and meet tight deadlines.
  • Ability to communicate technical analysis clearly in writing, presentations, and client discussions.
  • Good understanding of the global ETF and fund landscape, investment implementation choices, and relevant distribution channels.
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience extracting meaningful insights from large and complex data sets is essential.
  • Ability to guide less experienced team members and develop their analytical skills.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
  • 10+ years of experience in a financial institution or finance-related industry, with substantial exposure to portfolio analytics, asset allocation, investment research, or portfolio construction.
  • Strong written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and delivery of customized analyses for client portfolios, model portfolios, and strategic sales opportunities.
  • Assess portfolio structure across asset classes, regions, sectors, factors, currencies, investment styles, and underlying holdings.
  • Identify potential vulnerabilities, including concentration risk, overlapping exposures, unintended factor tilts, diversification gaps, drawdown sensitivity, liquidity constraints, and dependence on individual market outcomes.
  • Apply scenario analysis, stress testing, risk decomposition, performance attribution, correlation analysis, and other relevant methods to explain portfolio behavior.
  • Translate analytical findings into clear observations, trade-offs, and implementation considerations for clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Produce the Portfolio Insights and Analysis output, providing an in-depth assessment of portfolio construction, areas of weakness, potential risk, and opportunities to improve portfolio resilience.
  • Evaluate strategic and tactical asset allocation approaches in the context of client objectives, investment horizons, risk tolerances, liquidity needs, and implementation constraints.
  • Analyze how changes in asset allocation may affect portfolio risk, return drivers, diversification, and sensitivity to market scenarios.
  • Develop analytical frameworks that connect macroeconomic and market views with portfolio exposures and possible implementation choices.
  • Assess the role of different building blocks within a total portfolio, including core beta, active, factor, fixed income, liquidity, income, alternatives, and risk-management exposures.
  • Support the development of portfolio construction methodologies, model-based analyses, and repeatable frameworks for common client use cases.
  • Evaluate both State Street and third-party funds according to their potential function within a portfolio.
  • Analyze how different funds may provide core exposure, diversification, downside mitigation, income, liquidity, inflation sensitivity, duration management, factor exposure, or targeted growth opportunities.
  • Assess implementation trade-offs using holdings, returns, risk, liquidity, portfolio fit, and other relevant characteristics.
  • Use competitive and market analysis selectively to frame available implementation choices and explain material differences between approaches.
  • Provide data and analysis for client requests, including holdings, return streams, portfolio characteristics, risk measures, exposure analysis, and other relevant outputs.
  • Maintain and enhance existing portfolio analytics tools using in-house capabilities and third-party data or technology platforms.
  • Develop scalable tools that support both repeatable high-volume analysis and detailed bespoke work for significant commercial opportunities.
  • Create robust methodologies for portfolio diagnostics, vulnerability assessment, asset allocation analysis, fund-role classification, and implementation comparison.
  • Improve workflow efficiency, data quality, methodological consistency, and the clarity of client-ready outputs.
  • Evaluate relevant external analytical capabilities where they can strengthen portfolio analysis or improve the client experience.
  • Partner with sales, ETF specialists, and investment strategists to understand client needs and define the most relevant analytical approach.
  • Design targeted portfolio analyses that support specific client conversations and commercial opportunities.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for portfolio analytics, portfolio construction, asset allocation, and ETF-related RFPs and DDQs.
  • Present complex findings in a concise and accessible way for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Collaborate with product, marketing, investment, and technology teams to align analytical capabilities with client needs and business priorities.
  • Train and develop junior team members in portfolio analytics, investment interpretation, tool usage, and communication of findings.
  • Allocate and prioritize work across the team, balancing recurring deliverables with bespoke client opportunities.
  • Review analytical outputs for methodological soundness, accuracy, relevance, and clarity.
  • Ensure deliverables are completed accurately and on time.
  • Promote consistent analytical standards, documentation, and effective knowledge sharing.

Desired Qualifications

  • An advanced degree or relevant professional qualification.
  • Working knowledge of Bloomberg, Morningstar, FactSet, or comparable investment analytics and data platforms.
  • Experience with ETFs, mutual funds, model portfolios, multi-asset portfolios, or institutional portfolio analysis.
  • Programming or data-handling skills relevant to scalable analytics.
  • Experience developing analytical solutions using AI or advanced automation tools.
  • Knowledge of investment risk, market structure, liquidity, and portfolio implementation considerations.
  • Awareness of current market and economic issues and their potential portfolio implications.

About the Company

State Street

Holds assets for institutions and runs index funds

State Street holds and services investments for pension funds, insurers, fund companies, and other large institutions, and it also runs index funds through State Street Investment Management. It launched the first US-listed exchange-traded fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, in 1993, and in 1924 it became custodian of the first US mutual fund. As a custody bank, it safekeeps clients' stocks and bonds, completes their trades, calculates what their funds are worth, and lends their securities to other investors. It earns fees on the assets it services and manages, plus income from currency trading and from interest on client cash. State Street traces its roots to a bank chartered in 1792 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Founded
1792

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