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We are looking for an experienced and accomplished fixed income emerging markets credit analyst and portfolio manager with a proven track record in emerging markets credit selection, portfolio construction and preferably also fund/discretionary mandates management to support the senior portfolio managers under a temporary assignment (expected 7-9 months).

The role holder will join our emerging market desk (EMFI) in the CIO Office Fixed Income (CIOO FI) team with responsibility for emerging market bonds in mutual funds and discretionary mandates. This role is a unique opportunity to join Julius Baer’s growing and successful CIOO FI franchise, to drive emerging market credit analysis and selection as well as to join the management of our:

• Julius Baer Fixed Income Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Ucit fund
• Actively Managed Certificate on a Portfolio of Latin American Bonds
• as well as other dedicated emerging market products and mandates.

YOUR PROFILE

• University Master’s degree, CFA advantageous
• Min. 5 years working experience as fixed income emerging market credit analyst and/or fund manager
• Meaningful in-depth credit, sector and economic analysis experience in global emerging markets. Financial sector experience a plus.
• Passion for investing and a buy-side oriented mind-set grounded in a thorough understanding of risks and solid judgment. Relentless focus on investment performance
• Outstanding analytical skills, quantitative, detail-oriented, ability to think critically and form independent opinions
• Flexible, independent and structured working style, capacity to manage multiple tasks in a dynamic environment and ability to work under pressure
• Strong communication and presentation skills, established market network, experience in client interaction
• Very good written and spoken command of English, other languages advantageous
• Able to quickly establish credibility and trust, teamwork skills, client- and service-oriented personality
• Strong Bloomberg (AIM) experience; MS Excel, MS Powerpoint and other IT skills (Python, Excel VBA experience useful)
  We are looking forward to receiving your full job application through our online application tool.

The role holder will join our emerging market desk (EMFI) in the CIO Office Fixed Income (CIOO FI) team with responsibility for emerging market bonds in mutual funds and discretionary mandates. This role is a unique opportunity to join Julius Baer’s growing and successful CIOO FI franchise, to drive emerging market credit analysis and selection as well as to join the management of our:

• Julius Baer Fixed Income Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Ucit fund
• Actively Managed Certificate on a Portfolio of Latin American Bonds
• as well as other dedicated emerging market products and mandates

The role is to support the Senior Portfolio Managers, involving notably the following tasks:

• Perform detailed fundamental credit analysis of corporate issuers and relative value analysis for issuers and bonds across multiple currencies in the given market segments and sectors. Experience in the financial sector is preferred.
• Perform fundamental sector analysis for the relevant sectors / regions / market segments from both a bottom-up credit quality perspective and relative value
• Perform fund manager responsibilities, implement the investment strategy across formats (fund, AMC, mandates) according to specific investment guidelines
• Optimise the EM funds’ risk-adjusted performance against market benchmarks and peers
• Maintain a strong collaboration with the fixed income dealing desk for primary and secondary execution
• Build/maintain relationships with financial counterparties (syndicates, sales desks), corporate debt issuers as well as analysts; meet and visit issuers in roadshows, perform due diligence
• Perform financial modelling, scenario and covenant analysis on complex credits and corporate actions
• Select and monitor the broad credit selection eligible for building-block bond funds, as well as the core credit selection eligible for single-line use in discretionary mandates
• Contribute to internal and external communications, e.g. fund manager reports, strategy updates, investment proposals, prospective client meetings
• Support the CIOO FI team in different tasks and projects, e.g. model portfolio construction and bespoke portfolio analyse