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About the Role: Transition Management Analyst, Assistant Vice President

State Street Investment Management (SSIM) is seeking a Transition Management Analyst, Assistant Vice President, to join its global Transition Management (TM) team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role requires 2-5 years of experience and involves delivering transition and interim exposure management solutions to institutional investors globally, with a focus on clients domiciled in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The position operates under a hybrid model, requiring at least four days of in-office work.

Role Context and Impact

This role supports and manages complex transitions across various asset classes, including equities, fixed income, FX, and exchange-traded derivatives. The analyst will contribute to the firm’s broader global transition management platform, encompassing interim exposure management, reporting, and analytics. Expanding the global presence in the Middle East aligns with State Street's commitment to providing high-level service to clients and enables local delivery of TM services to KSA-domiciled clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop an in-depth understanding of the transition life cycle, including pre-trade, implementation, and post-trade aspects.
• Support KSA-domiciled clients and the global transition desk with pre- and post-trade analysis and execution reporting.
• Manage planning and project coordination, including communication with clients, custodians, record-keepers, investment managers, and consultants.
• Perform portfolio management and order generation, collaborating with the trading desk on trade strategy and instructions.
• Monitor daily middle office support functions, such as trade communications, reconciliations, and corporate actions.
• Conduct trade reconciliation between internal systems to ensure accuracy and completeness for timely settlement.
• Develop expertise in multi-asset agency trading, exposure management, and hedging strategies, serving as a subject matter expert for transition and interim exposure management products.
• Become proficient in benchmarking and measuring transition and trade execution performance through Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA).
• Support sales and business development initiatives and contribute to thought leadership on transition, exposure management, and trading topics.
• Contribute to projects focused on evolving and industrializing trading, hedging, and exposure analysis tools, including enhancing pre- and post-trade analytics and the interim exposure management platform.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, economics, finance, or a similar field.
• 3+ years of experience in a portfolio management, trading, consulting, analytical, or operational role, preferably across multiple asset classes.
• CMA registration is required.
• Familiarity with Charles River Development, Axioma, or other portfolio and order management systems/tools.
• Technical proficiency with Bloomberg and other market-data sources for analytical purposes.
• MBA, a graduate degree in a quantitative discipline, or progress toward CFA designation is preferred.
• Experience with TCA, AI, programming languages, modeling in Excel/VBA and Python, data visualization software, and database infrastructures is a plus.

Required Skills

• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex topics and manage projects with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to work and problem-solve independently under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment, maintaining a critical focus on details.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with a proactive approach to team support.

Work Environment and Travel

This role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and operates on a hybrid model, requiring at least four days of in-office work. The position may involve travel up to 10% of the time.