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Lead Quant Credit Strategist
New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts
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Overview
A career with us means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what enables MassMutual to deliver on our purpose to help people secure their futures and protect the ones they love.
We embrace the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. We strive to create a culture where employees feel valued and are celebrated for who they are.
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”
Job Description
Lead Quant Credit Strategist
Credit Research & Advanced Analytics
New York, NY or Boston, MA
The Opportunity
As a strategist, you’ll be responsible for providing quantitative investment insights on MassMutual’s private credit investments, leveraging both third party tools and proprietary models. The role overtime will grow to even greater responsibility in shaping MassMutual’s investment allocation, products pricing, and ALM.
The Team
The immediate team is composed of quantitative developers and strategists with proclivity for solving both technical and business problems. The team is part of the larger R&D group within Investment Management overseeing the General Investment Account. The team is very hands-on and proactive about engaging new ideas and challenges.
The Impact
You will provide analytic and investment insights on the private credit book and other illiquid assets to influence portfolio managers' allocation decisions. You will drive value-add thought leadership to asset allocators and corporate stakeholders on quant credit and high-impact projects, enhancing and protecting net investment income. Collaborate closely with portfolio managers on deals, offering a quantitative view on risk and due diligence. Develop statistical models for risk assessment and asset performance forecasting, leverage alternative data for investment insights, quantify cashflow uncertainty on deals, develop a security master for private assets, and estimate spread duration and the value of embedded options on deals.
The Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years working in financial services as a strategist, portfolio manager, or risk manager
- Bachelor’s in a technical field
- Deep knowledge of the private credit markets, including but not limited to middle market loans, portfolio funding, real estate, and ABS
- Experience working on private market deals as a stakeholder
- Capability in developing and applying statistical and econometric models
- Experience with working with imbalanced data
- Knowledge of accounting and regulatory regimes
- Excellent communication skills explaining complicated quantitative concepts to nontechnical stakeholders and influencing portfolio managers
- Experience in providing requirements to developers and managing project from development to production
- Python scripting proficiency and data visualization
The Ideal Qualifications
- Master’s degree in financial engineering, statistics, machine learning, econometrics or similar disciplines
- Experience structuring private ABS deals
- Knowledge of the CLO, public ABS, middle market loans, WSLs, and HY corporates
- Relevant certifications: CQF, CFA, ARPM, FRM, PRM, or CAIA
- Knowledge of Python’s analytic and statistical modeling package ecosystem
- Intex and/or other cashflow engines
- Commercial risk models
What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team
- Regular meetings with team
- Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
- Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, veteran, and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
- Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
- Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment. The job description includes the main duties of this position, which may evolve over time. You may be required to perform other duties not listed.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
Salary Range: $163,900.00-$215,000.00
Hiring Process
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Interview
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Offer
If you are extended an offer to join MassMutual and accept, your start will be contingent upon a satisfactory background check.
Hire
If you accept the offer, we will be so excited to welcome you to the MassMutual community!
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By the numbers*
- 88% of employee respondents say they are proud to work at MassMutual
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% of employee respondents say they feel encouraged to bring forth new ideas - 86% of employee respondents say MassMutual cares about and supports the well-being of their employees
*Source: 2024 MassMutual employee engagement survey
Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure — it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to build a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
How We Work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1,250 annual Well-Being Wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Benefit details can be found here.
Why MassMutual?
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