Assistant Portfolio Manager (Fintech)

Location: City of London, United Kingdom; hybrid work with three days in the office

Company

IG is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, providing trading and investment services to more than 1.3 million customers.

What you will do

• Support the day-to-day management of UK Smart Portfolios across risk profiles, mandates, target risk bands, and strategic asset allocations.
• Run portfolio rebalancing operations and contribute to ETF selection and due diligence.
• Maintain and develop risk and volatility models, including covariance matrices, ex ante volatility, and risk decomposition.
• Produce performance attribution and own the monthly risk, attribution, and performance reporting cycle.
• Act as an investment subject matter expert for client experience teams and support portfolio and trading workflow changes with technology and asset servicing teams.
• Write investment commentary and create client-facing educational, market, and performance materials subject to compliance approval.

Requirements

• Strong Excel modelling skills and familiarity with Bloomberg.
• Working knowledge of ETFs, asset allocation, volatility, tracking error, and risk contribution.
• Clear written English and the ability to explain investment performance to a retail audience.
• Care, accuracy, and sound judgement in operational work, including appropriate escalation.
• Ability to work in the City of London under the hybrid arrangement with three office days per week.

Nice to have

• CFA candidacy or progress towards the qualification.
• Experience in investment operations, portfolio management, or investment analysis.
• Experience with performance attribution or risk reporting in multi-asset or model portfolio environments.
• Experience working with compliance on client-facing materials.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance-related bonuses and a flexible benefits package worth 12% on top of salary.
• Pension, private medical, life insurance, and other insurance plans.
• Career-focused technical and leadership training with unlimited LinkedIn Learning access.
• Twenty-five days of holiday, a birthday day off, and two additional volunteering days, with the option to buy or sell holiday days.
• Gym membership support, social events, special-interest groups, and employee-led diversity networks.
• Enhanced parental leave and support for ESG initiatives.