
Senior Investment Consultant – Quantitative Investments
Marsh McLennan
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Frankfurt • Germany
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About the role
- Be part of Mercer’s Investment Consulting team
- Support clients — including pension funds, small-to-large corporations, insurers, and family offices — in optimally investing their assets
- Collaborate with global Investment Research and with local investment colleagues in Germany
- Conduct Asset Liability Management (ALM) analyses for various types of investors
- Portfolio construction using mathematical optimization techniques
- Stochastic modeling of capital market risks
- Further development of the existing in‑house tool landscape
- Asset manager performance evaluation and selection
- Research on selected topics and asset managers
Requirements
- Relevant professional experience in the investment process of institutional investors, including ALM, mandate implementation, and risk management
- Experience with banking supervision and its impact on asset management is a plus
- Programming experience (e.g., Matlab, Python, R, or VBA) is advantageous
- Good understanding of regulatory requirements such as the Investment Ordinance (Anlageverordnung), BaFin circulars, financial reporting under the German Commercial Code (HGB), as well as supervisory reporting (stress tests, forecasting)
- Enjoyment of consulting and collaborative problem-solving in institutional asset management
- Experience in project management
- Consulting and sales orientation, with a confident manner
- Very good German (C1) and English (C1) verbal and written skills
- Open-mindedness and strong team spirit
Benefits
- Flexibility: option to work remotely, flexible working hours, and well-equipped offices in central locations
- 30 days of vacation
- Various special leave days
- Subsidised Deutschlandticket (public transport)
- Company bicycle schemes and company cars
- Discounted rates for numerous sports and wellness offers
- Partnership with heynanny to support childcare and eldercare
- Access to a large employee discount portal and more
- Employer-funded occupational pension plan (bAV)
- Capital-forming benefits (vermögenswirksame Leistungen)
- Preferential rates for disability insurance and direct insurance plans
- Group accident insurance
- Individual development and training opportunities within a secure, international corporation
- DE&I (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) is lived practice — we want everyone to feel welcome at Mercer
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Hard Skills & Tools
Asset Liability Managementportfolio constructionmathematical optimizationstochastic modelingprogramming (Matlab)programming (Python)programming (R)programming (VBA)risk managementmandate implementation
Soft Skills
consultingcollaborative problem-solvingproject managementsales orientationteam spiritopen-mindednesscommunicationinterpersonal skillsleadershiporganizational skills