Job Description

At Franklin Templeton, we’re advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we provide opportunities to help you reach your potential while helping our clients reach theirs.

Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world! 

We are looking for an ETFs Portfolio Manager to join our Global ETF group in London.

The Franklin Global ETFs team was created as part of Franklin’s strategic priority to establish a leading position in the fast-growing segment of the industry globally.  This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing business segment, combining the entrepreneurial culture with the resources of an established firm.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of the ETFs Portfolio Manager?

• Manage the assigned portfolios to meet or exceed performance standards consistent with fund’s investment objectives while adhering to client-specified or regulatory restrictions and constraints.
• Proactively generate value add through trading strategies, corporate action elections, tax mitigation strategies or other ad-hoc opportunities.
• Ensure portfolio risk is prudently managed, and that investment and operational processes have integrity by engaging in sound risk management practices. Stay knowledgeable of all regulatory frameworks under which assigned portfolios operate.
• Knowledgeable on various investment vehicles (including derivatives) and currency hedging strategies.
• Apply quantitative techniques and models, coupled with specific market experience, ETFs and index construction to portfolio management, product development and risk budgeting.
• Have a strong understanding of index provider methodologies and index changes. Affect index changes in the market with a balanced risk approach around tracking to the benchmark.
• Attribute fund performance and understand sources of portfolio risk relative to the benchmark.
• Proactively contribute to overall systems/investment process enhancements.  Influence and impact the development of the next generation ETF platform, working with internal Technology team and outside vendors.
• Evaluate new markets to support product launches around portfolio management issues.
• Ensure new processes are implemented appropriately.
• Build relationships and work together with different parts of the firm to get new initiatives executed and deliver superior client experience.
• Contribute to a positive team culture and foster optimal work environment for the team.

What ideal qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful?

• Requires a minimum of 2 years of ETF portfolio management experience is preferred, in equity and/or fixed income
• 3 years of overall experience in the investment industry.
• Programming skills is desired.
• Degree required, and CFA designation preferred.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills coupled with a strong attention to detail. Strong quantitative analytical skills, including knowledge of optimization and risk models. 
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize assignments, while producing a high-quality work in a fast-paced environment. Curious and self-motivated.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, and relationship-building skills.
• In addition to the dynamic and professional environment at Franklin Templeton, we strive to ensure that our employees have access to a competitive and valuable set of Total Rewards—the mix of both monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to you in recognition for your time, talents, efforts, and results.

What makes Franklin Templeton unique?

In addition to the dynamic and professional environment at Franklin Templeton, we strive to ensure that our employees have access to a competitive and valuable set of Total Rewards—the mix of both monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to you in recognition for your time, talents, efforts, and results. Highlights of our benefits include - contributory pension scheme, private healthcare plan, PHI, life insurance, Employee Stock Investment Program, incentive plans, purchase of company funds with no sales charge, educational reimbursement and on-site training.

We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and supporting our communities. An emphasis on corporate citizenship is embedded in our culture and values, and is an important element of how we achieve success.  

We are also committed to your learning and development with resources focused around Experience, Exposure, and Education, to help you achieve your professional development goals. Take some time to, meet some of our people, and see what it means to say, "I AM Franklin Templeton".

Franklin Templeton values diversity in its workforce and welcomes employees from different backgrounds, generations, capabilities, cultural identification, sexual orientations, and gender expression, in addition to other attributes that contribute to a truly diverse and inclusive community.