Risk & Performance Attribution Consultant

Your Team Responsibilities

As an MSCI Analytics Consultant, your team's responsibilities typically center on delivering expert guidance, technical support, and strategic value to clients who use MSCI’s analytics solutions. Here's a breakdown of the key responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, building and maintaining strong, trust-based relationships.

• Understand each client's investment process, objectives, and challenges to tailor analytics support accordingly.

• Proactively engage with clients to ensure they are deriving maximum value from MSCI tools and services.

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) on MSCI’s suite of products, particularly Barra, Aegis, and other Risk, Performance Attribution, and Portfolio Construction tools.

• Provide in-depth explanations of methodologies and results, and bridge the gap between technical capabilities and client use cases.

• Translate complex analytics into actionable insights for portfolio managers, risk teams, and performance analysts.

• Support new client onboarding, ensuring a smooth transition and effective implementation of MSCI solutions.

• Configure and customize MSCI tools to meet specific client workflows and reporting needs.

• Deliver product training and workshops to enhance client proficiency with the platforms.

• Assist clients in running risk models, conducting performance attribution, and optimizing portfolios.

• Troubleshoot issues, perform diagnostics, and collaborate with internal teams (Product, Engineering, Sales) to resolve technical challenges.

• Help clients interpret results, identify data anomalies, and recommend adjustments to workflows as needed.

• Work closely with MSCI Sales, Research, Product Management, and Client Service teams to deliver a unified client experience.

• Provide client feedback to product teams to support roadmap development and feature enhancement.

• Continuously demonstrate the value of MSCI Analytics by helping clients align the tools with regulatory requirements, performance goals, and investment strategies.

• Identify upsell opportunities through thoughtful engagement and understanding of client needs.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor and main point of contact for assigned clients in the asset management, hedge fund, or pension space.

• Understand each client's investment process, portfolio structure, and risk framework.

• Build long-term relationships to ensure client satisfaction and retention.

• Provide deep expertise on MSCI products, especially Barra risk models, Aegis platform, and performance attribution tools.

• Help clients interpret analytical outputs and apply them to real-world portfolio decisions.

• Offer guidance on model selection, data interpretation, and result validation.

• Lead the onboarding process for new clients, ensuring smooth setup and integration with their systems and workflows.

• Deliver customized training sessions to improve user adoption and proficiency across client teams.

• Develop client-specific materials and use cases to support platform understanding.

• Assist with portfolio diagnostics, custom reporting, and performance attribution.

• Collaborate with internal teams (e.g., Engineering, Product, Data Operations) to troubleshoot and resolve client issues.

• Identify discrepancies in data or results and help clients understand root causes and corrective actions.

• Work closely with Sales, Account Management, Research, and Product Management to align client needs with MSCI’s evolving product roadmap.

• Participate in product feedback loops, contributing client insights to future feature development.

• Help clients align MSCI’s analytics tools with regulatory compliance, investment mandates, and ESG goals.

• Provide forward-looking insights on market trends, new methodologies, or product enhancements that could benefit the client’s workflow.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

To excel as an MSCI Analytics Consultant, especially in a client-facing role within the asset management space, a combination of technical expertise, industry knowledge, and strong interpersonal skills is essential. Below is a detailed breakdown of the skills and experience that contribute to success in this role:

• Strong understanding of multi-factor risk models (e.g., MSCI Barra).

• Knowledge of performance attribution, portfolio optimization, and scenario analysis.

• Hands-on experience with MSCI tools such as:

  • BarraOne

  • Aegis

  • RiskMetrics

  • ESG Manager (if applicable)

• Familiarity with portfolio management systems (e.g., Aladdin, Charles River, Bloomberg PORT) is a plus.

• Solid background in statistics, financial mathematics, or econometrics.

• Comfort working with large datasets and interpreting model outputs.

• Excel (advanced), Python, R, or SQL for custom analysis or data manipulation.

• Understanding of APIs and integration processes is increasingly valuable.

• Deep understanding of how asset managers, hedge funds, and institutional investors construct and manage portfolios.

• Awareness of regulatory frameworks (e.g., UCITS, Solvency II, ESG mandates).

• Familiarity with ESG scoring and integration.

• Understanding how private markets are modeled and evaluated in risk frameworks.

• Ability to build strong, consultative relationships with portfolio managers, risk teams, and analysts.

• Comfortable presenting complex analytics in a clear, actionable way.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially when explaining technical material to non-technical audiences.

• Ability to tailor your communication style depending on stakeholder roles (e.g., CIO vs. Risk Analyst).

• Proactive mindset when identifying and resolving client issues.

• Ability to connect technical tools with client-specific challenges and investment goals.

• Degrees in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or Quantitative disciplines.

• 3–7+ years of experience in:

  • Buy-side or sell-side analytics

  • Risk or performance teams

  • Financial technology consulting

  • Quantitative research or client support

• CFA, FRM, CAIA, or progress toward these credentials is often viewed positively.

About MSCI

What we offer you

• Salary range: $120,000 - $165,000 /year plus eligible for annual bonus.

• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.

• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.

• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.

• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.

• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.

• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.

• We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose – to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

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