Head of GIA Investment Performance Measurement and Analytics - Quincy - MassMutual

Description

Head of GIA Investment Performance Measurement and Analytics
Investment Management
Full-Time
New York, NY, Boston, MA or Springfield, MA
The Opportunity

MassMutual Investment Management (IM) seeks a seasoned investment management and operations professional to lead the investment performance function for MassMutual's General Investment Account (GIA).

This role reports to the Head of Manager Oversight and will:

Design, and oversee implementation of models, policies, and procedures for a best-in-class performance and attribution reporting function.

Help drive strategy and execution of investment performance measurement, attribution, and reporting programs supporting MassMutual's Board, CIO, and other key stakeholders.

Help shape market commentary and attribution narratives for internal and external stakeholders, including affiliate managers and GPs.

Complete the feedback loop for MassMutual Investment Management in the performance space by collaborating with teams supporting product profitability analysis and PMs managing ALM and capital allocation decisions.

The Team
The Manager Oversight team is part of IM's Strategy and Governance organization, reporting to MassMutual's CIO.

The team oversees IM's asset manager relationships and functions, including manager operational due diligence, investment mandate onboarding & lifecycle management, and investment performance.

Adjacent teams handle business strategy and planning, vendor oversight, investment compliance, and investment reporting for MassMutual's Board & Investment Committee.

The Impact and Key Responsibilities:
Lead MassMutual's investment performance measurement, attribution, and reporting function for a $250B+ General Investment Account (GIA).

In this role you will be on the starting line to help influence, design and implement a state-of-the-art performance measurement and attribution capability.

This senior leadership role requires strategic planning, influence, executive visibility, and the opportunity to transform performance analytics and attribution capabilities for a prestigious insurance company.

Evolve existing practices and refresh methodologies, assumptions, and models to introduce new and industry best practice approaches for presenting performance across products, asset classes, and instruments.

Lead strategic platform rationalization and evaluate performance engines to enhance analytics.

Provide technical expertise in portfolio management, finance, capital markets, and investment performance reporting, guiding decisions to align with market standards.

Contribute to portfolio reporting and attribution by applying experience across asset classes and investment strategies, ensuring liability-driven investment strategies and ALM models are accurately derived and validated.

Collaborate directly with portfolio managers and lead teams to achieve strategic alignment across functions, simplifying complex income and return objectives under liability constraints while maintaining precision and accuracy in reporting.

Manage the evolution of the program to maximize total-portfolio view and coverage for GIA reporting, expanding capabilities important to investment team members.

Help develop a long-term roadmap to unlock value and greater ROI for the Performance program, including performance monitoring as a compensating control for financial reporting.

Help drive the development of reporting standards for leadership and Board materials, framing investment successes, market impacts, and risk-adjusted performance drivers.

Help with the design of data integration between IBOR/ABOR systems and performance engines to optimize data validation, reporting efficiency, and portfolio transparency.

Lead strategic initiatives to align performance reporting with insurance industry practices, NAIC classifications, and risk-based capital requirements, ensuring compliance and strategic flexibility.

Serve as a trusted advisor to the CIO and Senior Leadership Team, influencing investment strategy communication and Board-level reporting.
The Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in STEM, Finance-Accounting, Actuarial Science, or related field.
10+ years in investment management with progressive experience focusing on performance measurement, attribution, and reporting.

5+ years in leading teams and/or investment strategy and decision-making for an asset owner, allocator or investment advisor, in a role focused on: investment performance, attribution and analysis; portfolio management; product management or research; portfolio strategy or securities research [investment selection].

Experience with liability-driven investment strategies, including ALM frameworks, duration matching, and immunization techniques.
Experience designing, building, and calibrating investment return, valuation, or risk models for capital allocation in multi-asset portfolios.

Advanced Excel and quantitative modeling; familiarity with GIPS standards and compliance; strong understanding of risk-adjusted return metrics (TWR, IRR, Brinson attribution, factor attribution).

Ability to integrate cash flow projections and liability schedules into performance analytics; can source index and reported market yields or returns as benchmarks, model, select "best-fit," and defend rationale in Q&A with investment professionals.

Deep knowledge of fixed income, structured credit, private credit, and alternative investments; understanding of insurance asset management and regulatory frameworks; working knowledge of NAIC and statutory accounting preferred.

Expertise in designing attribution models that incorporate liability benchmarks; ability to optimize portfolios for duration and convexity matching; strong leadership and stakeholder engagement across investment, actuarial, and risk teams.

Proven ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with peers and key partners throughout the organization and in their external, professional networks.

Familiar with full spectrum of geographic and credit risk demographics: IG, HY, and Distressed; NA, EMEA, APAC; Developed or Emerging Markets.

Technical Skills Covering:
Multi-Asset (total portfolio) Total-Return Presentation and Public Market Benchmark Selection
Relative-Spread, Relative-Yield, and Relative-Market/Index Return Comps (Alts-Benchmarks)
Bond-Factor Analytics (and to a lesser extent, Equity-Factors)
Duration-Adjusted Return Modeling

Portfolio Hedge Attribution:
Global Asset-Country and FX Risk; Key-

Rate Risk:
Default Risk
The Ideal Qualifications
Master's degree in STEM, Finance, Quantitative Analytics, or MBA; CPA or actuarial credentials for ALM depth a plus.
CFA, CIPM or equivalent designation strongly preferred; CAIA or FRM a plus.
Deep familiarity with Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS); experience managing GIPS verification and composite construction for liability-driven portfolios.

Proven ability to implement automation for performance and ALM reporting; experience with data governance and integration of liability projections into performance dashboards.

Experience configuring, and testing platforms integrated across the investment ecosystem, such as Performance Engines (SS&C Advent Geneva/APX, Eagle Performance, Clearwater Analytics), Portfolio Management and IBOR Platforms (BlackRock Aladdin, SimCorp Dimension, Charles River IMS), ALM & LDI Tools (Bloomberg PORT, proprietary actuarial systems, Beacon), and Instrument Cashflow and CP-Credit Risk Modeling Services (Intex, Moody's, S&P).

Experience implementing BlackRock PBOR

Experience with majority of investments or instruments in: Gov & Corporate Debt, Bank Loans, PE Sponsor and Non-Sponsored Mid-Market Loans and Private Credit, Commercial & Residential Real Estate Debt, Consumer/Retail and Real Estate ABS, Structured ABF, Structured Credit, CLOs/CDOs, Municipal Bonds, Private LP's, Direct-PE.

Technical Skills Covering:
Private Equity & Equity-Pacing Models
Cash-Weighted Returns (IRR and realized-CF holding-period yield)
Capital-Multipliers (for closed & evergreen portfolios/private-alts strategies)
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