The North Carolina Investment Authority (NCIA) is a separate and independent state agency, governed by a Board of Directors chaired by the State Treasurer, tasked with investing North Carolina’s $144 billion in pension assets. The NCIA was created effective July 1st, 2025, and assumed statutory investment powers and duties from the Department of State Treasurer effective January 1, 2026. Details below.
For the Risk Investment Analyst position, qualified candidates will have the following education, experience, and skills:
- Education and experience: Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, statistics, investments, or a related field, plus at least two years of relevant investment experience.
- Risk analytics platform support: Help implement and maintain the organization’s investment risk-management and analytics platform, including data quality, model management, and system processes.
- Reporting and process improvement: Use internal and external databases to produce recurring and ad hoc reports while improving performance- and risk-reporting workflows.
- Investment analysis: Evaluate financial and investment data through performance measurement, attribution analysis, risk metrics, and other quantitative techniques.
- Portfolio oversight: Prepare total-plan cash forecasts, monitor investment exposures and cash flows, and support economic and business-condition forecasting.
- Manager and compliance due diligence: Participate in meetings with current and prospective investment managers and complete compliance reviews for potential investments, including supporting charts and visual analysis.
- Stakeholder communication: Develop reports and presentation materials for senior leadership, the Investment Committee, Board of Trustees, plan participants, and other internal and external stakeholders.
- Management Preferences: Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, FactSet, MSCI Burgiss Private i, and Bloomberg; preference for candidates with investment analytics, statistics, or financial mathematics experience who are pursuing a CFA, IA, CAIA, or FRM designation
Interested candidates should send a letter of interest and resume to: NCIAResumes@NCinvest.gov
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