Fixed Income Sovereign Research Analyst

At MFS, you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes, favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters – to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures.

THE ROLE

As part of the emerging markets research effort, works with portfolio managers and analysts in making investment recommendations for both local and hard currency sovereign bonds based on a thorough fundamental analysis of sovereign credit worthiness and a disciplined relative valuation approach.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Make investment recommendations for hard and local currency in Emerging Markets debt.

• Monitor and analyze factors affecting sovereign fundamental creditworthiness, including economic, financial, political and technical developments.

• Monitor bond price movements and technical factors in EM hard and local currency markets.

• Maintain and develop analytic models pertaining to creditworthiness and bond valuations and currencies.

• Make presentations to internal and external audiences.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 5 to years investment experience in Emerging Markets Debt.

• Masters or Ph.D., preferably in economics, finance, or related fields.

• Must have strong skills and experience with macroeconomics and country-level fundamental analysis.

• Strong communication skills, both written and oral. Foreign language proficiency desirable.

• Experience working in a diverse and collaborative team environment.

• Solid data analysis skills. Modeling experience beneficial.

Base Salary: $,

This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus.

At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we’re including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we’ll pay depending on the candidate’s experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include:

• MFS contributes an amount equal to % of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored (k)

• Education Assistance: MFS contributes $ monthly up to $, lifetime maximum directly to loan provider

• Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8, annually

• Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches

• Generous time off and fully paid leaves including -weeks for maternity, -weeks for parental and caregiver leaves

• Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account

• Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)

• Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well-being apps

Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency – if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we’ll be happy to discuss them

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