💼 Full-Time Position

Associate, Quantitative Research Analyst

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Principal Financial Group
📍 Des Moines, IA, United States
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Location
Des Moines, United States
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Posted
June 06, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

**What You'll Do**

Investment Solutions is seeking a Associate, Quantitative Research Analyst for our pension line of business.The analyst will also support broader asset modeling, analytics, and ALM initiatives across multiple business lines.

+ Maintain pension liability models across our defined benefit pension plans using PFaroe or proprietary systems.
+ Produce quarterly funded status tracking reports for pension clients.
+ Perform regular asset/liability optimization analyses for pension clients based on customized objectives.
+ Provide asset/liability modeling (ALM) support for existing clients and prospects.
+ Support development of proprietary pension analytics software.
+ Deliver modeling support for Insurance, Capital Markets, Endowment, Foundation, and Nonqualified (NQ) plans.

Principal Asset Management is the global investment solutions business for Principal Financial Group® (Nasdaq: PFG), managing about $580 billion in assets and ...