Associate

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients’ capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world’s largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns.

Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.

Account Analyst, Zurich, German-speaking

Account Analyst’s serve a dynamic role based on the core responsibility of servicing PIMCO’s clients. The Associate's primary responsibility is to support PIMCO’s client-servicing professionals to ensure delivery of the highest level of service to our clients. Account Associates gather, analyse and discuss economic trends, support external reporting requirements, and deliver performance attribution analyses to account managers.

This position requires an analytical, detailed professional who can:

- Accurately and efficiently prepare client reports spanning performance, trading activity, portfolio valuation and risk metrics.
- Continually building understanding of underlying market factors to complete more qualitative, complex investment analyses.
- Effectively utilize tools such as Excel spreadsheets, macros, and query tools, along with internet sites, both public and private. Bloomberg and/or Yieldbook knowledge is a plus.
- Support the Account Management team through the provision of market and portfolio data.
- Analyse Portfolio data including qualitative and quantitative performance attribution.
- Handle ongoing automation of growing reporting requirements and streamlining of the reporting process.
- Produce ad-hoc client & internal requests for information.
- Maintain a commitment to quality and attention to detail; ensure that all work is delivered completed, accurately, and on time.
- Actively listen and ask questions to determine and meet customer needs; go beyond normal job responsibilities to indirectly satisfy the customer
- Flourish in a challenging, fast-paced, professional environment with frequent shifts in priorities as business needs dictate.
- Have a strong sense of integrity, behaving consistently with expressed values and ethical principles of the firm.
- Focus on specific goals, and demonstrate a sense of personal accountability and urgency for achieving results.
- Foster a sense of teamwork, assisting others when needed/required.
- Have the desire to contribute to and grow with the organization through a variety of developmental assignments (the nature of which will be based on available opportunities and actual performance in the current role)

Position Requirements:
Requirements:

- Fluent German language skills are required for this role, Swiss-German skills are an advantage.
- 0-2 years’ experience in financial services, ideally in a similar role
- Graduate with a minimum 2:1 degree (or equivalent) at an accredited college or university
- Are motivated to provide best-in-class client service and build strong client relationships
- Possess a strong analytical skill set
- Demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Show ability to articulate ideas/strategies clearly, both verbally and in writing, which enable you to operate in a complex financial and mathematical environment
- Possess a strong passion for innovation to contribute to the continuous improvement of our work processes and outcomes
- Are results orientated, possess attention to detail and strong time management skill
- Show the following traits: ethical, collaborative, organized, flexible, high energy, self-starter, accountable, humble

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