Job Specifications
Position Description
The Seattle City Employees' Retirement System Department is seeking a graduate intern to provide support to the SCERS investment team on a special project and, occasionally, daily tasks.
SCERS provides retirement income to thousands of former City of Seattle employees and their beneficiaries. The investment team manages the $4.3 billion investment assets of SCERS.
Educational Benefit to Student:
The student will get a broad overview of all the main investment asset classes (public equities, private equities, bonds, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure) through observing how an investment team allocates a multi-billion-dollar fund in order to meet the return targets.
Job Responsibilities
Portfolio analytics reporting:
Continue integration of MSCI web-based data analytics, facilitate reporting, check for accuracy and consistency, identify ways to leverage the system
Create custom templates for regular analysis, potentially including portfolio profiles, risk exposures, scenario analysis and risk forecasting
Develop training manual and ensure business continuity through documentation
Establish protocols for analytics communications and redundancies
Practice development projects:
Update implementation and training materials for staff responsibilities
Design meeting preparation packets
Create templates for Board presentations
Establish a practice for monitoring proxy votes and tracking outcomes
Possible daily tasks:
Assist with meeting preparation including power-point, word and excel work
Assist with ad hoc tasks related to fund administration, performance tracking, and manager-provided documentation
Qualifications
Education:
Open to graduate students enrolled in an accredited graduate program, preferably pursuing a MBA, MFA, MS or PhD in Economics, Business, Finance or Accounting. Other programs will be considered but candidates must attach coursework for review.
Graduate students will need to maintain a 3.0 GPA or above throughout the internship.
Required Experience:
Intern should be currently enrolled in or have completed coursework in Economics, Finance, Investing or Accounting.
Desired Qualifications:
Data analytics, strong quantitative skills, good oral and written communications, organizational skills and a team orientation.
Intern should have familiarity with shared drives, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, OneDrive and PDFs.
Additional Information
The full salary range for this internship is $26.71 - $26.71 per hour.
Start/End Dates: SCERS is semi-flexible on start date but prefers to hire an intern ASAP; the duration is negotiable for the right candidate, please include in your submission which months and for how long you are able to intern.
Internship Duration: Flexible.
Schedule: Intern will work 15-20 hours per week with the flexibility of allowing the intern to work 40 hours per week for approximately 8 weeks in the summer. Work hours can be scheduled between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
How to Apply:
Complete an online application and include the following:
Unofficial transcript including current classes and GPA
Resume
Two References
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
About the Company
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