At Principal, we invest in what matters. And building talented teams is where it all begins. We're drawn to people who bring unique perspectives, passion, and expertise to help us advance the financial security and well-being of our customers, transform our growing business, and drive positive change in the communities where we live and work. When we invest in you, and you invest in us, great things happen. We are looking for a Senior Analyst, Digital & Quantitative Strategy in Malaysia who will support our investment team with database construction, investment reporting and analytics. What You&aposll Do Build and maintain a database to pull-in data from disparate market or internal sources and load to downstream systems for reporting and analytics Build and back-test low-frequency cross-asset systematic investment strategies with focus on scalability to different international markets Build performance attribution tools e.g., return/risk decomposition. Also, prepare monthly attribution reports. Develop, automate and streamline workflow of peer analytics reports, composite reports and fund parameters/templates. Maintain and prepare monthly bond risk report to measure market risk exposure of fixed income funds. Take up on-demand requests for web-scraping, automation, etc. Who You Are A bachelor's degree holder in Maths, Applied Maths, Statistics, Finance, Economics, Actuarial Scient, Data Science or other related fields. A master's degree would be an added advantage. FRM or CFA qualified (preferable) Able to display a strong understanding of Equities, Credit, Rates, cross-asset risk factor/style premia and macros. Solid knowledge of mathematical/statistical concepts such as probability theory, regression, matrix algebra, and optimization problems Experienced with languages such as Python/R/MATLAB and SQL with emphasis on vectorization Experienced working with visualization tools such as PowerBI/Tableau/Qlikview Strong analytical skills and detailed personality High degree of integrity, a team-player and results-oriented Who We Are Principal Financial Group is a Fortune 500 global leader in financial services focused on insurance, retirement, and asset management. We have 18,000 employees and 51 million customers around the world with over $714B in assets under management. Show more Show less