The AVP, Investment Analytics manages complex projects and delivers advanced modeling and analytics that support Fortitude Re’s investment plan. This role bridges strategy and execution—translating senior leadership direction into actionable analytics projects while coordinating across actuarial, accounting, and investment teams. The AVP ensures deliverables meet business objectives, regulatory standards, and quality benchmarks, while supervising junior colleagues and fostering collaboration across functions. 

This role will be based in our Jersey City, NJ office on a hybrid basis.

What You Will Do: 

• Manage complex projects within the investment analytics function, taking accountability for end-to-end execution and timely delivery. 

• Lead cross-functional collaboration with finance, investment operations, asset managers, and vendors to ensure models and analytics meet business and regulatory requirements. 

• Develop advanced analytics frameworks to support ALM, pricing, cedent requirements, and regulatory reporting, balancing technical depth with business applicability. 

• Develop, build, and maintain new models to automate complex investment operations functions, including income recognition, cedent guideline management, and new deal onboarding. 

• Supervise junior team members (Associates and Senior Associates), providing guidance on methodologies, deliverables, and professional development. 

• Identify process improvements and implement standardized workflows that enhance scalability and data quality across the analytics platform. 

• Design and plan quantitative research on private credit transaction data and develop liquidity premium risk and return models. 

• Design and implement structured product models spanning public and private securities (e.g., ABF, CLOs, rated funds, RMBS, CMBS). 

• Design and implement analytics to support investment strategy, including standardizing and scaling new business pricing. 

What You Will Have: 

• Bachelor's degree in math, computer science, statistics, or a related quantitative field; master’s degree preferred. 

• 7+ years of experience in investments analytics, portfolio management, or other investments function. 

• CFA of FSA preferred. 

• Knowledge of Fixed Income modeling as it relates to Analytics and Cashflows. 

• Strong analytical capabilities. 

• Highly proficient knowledge with SQL, R, Python, or other programming languages. 

• Knowledge of Bloomberg and advanced Excel skills is required. 

• Proficiency using leading software vendors for financial data and fixed income modeling, including Bloomberg, Aladdin, Intex, Trepp, and others. 

• Experience working at a (re)insurer is a plus. 

• Prior experience with private credit, structure credit, esoteric asset classes, and whole loans is a plus.  

• Proven expertise in building processes to clean, validate, and analyze large data sets. 

• Very strong written, verbal and interpersonal communications skills to clearly articulate sophisticated concepts, ideas and processes.  

• Presence and credibility to present effectively to key senior management. 

• Ability to direct and lead other members of the team. 

• Ability to work across functional groups to bring teams together and accomplish project goals and objectives.