What You'll Do: As an Administrative Assistant , this position is responsible for providing a broad range of administrative support activities to a department identified by business-driven value. Primary functions of the job are scheduling and strategic calendar management. Light travel, expense support along with recognition/team event support (adding birthdays/work anniversaries to calendars, ordering food/beverage). Provide calendar support of a department identified by business-driven value. May include: limited calendar management on behalf of the person(s) supported, negotiating with others to find the best date/time options, ensuring required attendees are invited, tactical meeting coordination (scheduling and room setup, catering, agenda and materials). This position may be responsible for providing meeting technology support in virtual and in-person meeting environments. May be responsible for performing: light to moderate inbox support (deleting junk,...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Senior Investment Accounting Analyst to join our collaborative Investment Accounting team. In this role, you will oversee investment accounting and reporting across a broad range of investment strategies and complex asset classes. This is a highly visible position that partners closely with portfolio managers, investment operations, risk, compliance, tax, auditors, and technology teams to ensure strong reporting and control practices. Investment Accounting & Financial Reporting Perform advanced investment accounting, including trade capture, income accruals, valuation, impairments, consolidations, and hedging across equities, fixed income, structured products, private placements, private asset funds, alternatives, and derivatives. Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual reports supporting internal management reporting (quarterly results, board materials, earnings call prep) and external requirements (e.g., SEC and other...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Manager to join our Client Onboarding and Deconversion Services team. In this role, you’ll lead team members who support Defined Contribution (DC) retirement plan transitions. You’ll play a key role in ensuring successful execution of our services through effective talent management, collaboration with global partners, and leadership of transformational outcomes through improved workflow, metrics, and business literacy.   Key Responsibilities Include: Oversee key functions of retirement plan transition events with a focus on continuous improvement. Develop a team that delivers excellent service through ownership, accountability, and results. Instill loyalty and satisfaction by ensuring quality client experiences are taking place. Identify, analyze and provide guidance to team members for issue resolution. Act as a liaison with internal and external customers to find solutions. Build and maintain effective working relationships...

What You'll Do: We're looking for a Client Implementation Leader to join our team! In this role, you'll lead and coordinate all aspects of client transitions and product implementations, serving as a strategic liaison between internal and external stakeholders, and our client-facing teams. Your responsibilities include identifying and resolving complex implementation challenges, through project leadership, developing and implementing new processes, conducting process reviews, and driving system enhancements. You'll provide guidance and set expectations for team members while maintaining a strategic view of the broader organization to ensure all solutions align with company objectives.     Collaborate with our Global Sales and Client teams and engage directly with Clients to provide a best-in-class client experience throughout the onboarding process. Lead and develop a team supporting global client and product implementation. Build a culture of ownership and excellence...

What You'll Do: We’re seeking a Director, Private Credit – Asset-Backed Finance (ABF) to play a senior role within our Investment Grade Private Credit platform. This individual will be a key contributor to the execution, structuring, and ongoing management of investment-grade private asset-backed finance investments across a broad range of industries and asset types. This role is execution-focused, not origination-driven. You’ll be responsible for implementing sourced opportunities into capital-efficient, regulatory-aligned structured investments, including ABS, ABL, ABF, CLO, and other structured credit strategies—primarily for insurance and long-duration capital.   Additional Responsibilities: You will work across both new and existing transactions spanning sectors such as fund finance, consumer and commercial ABF, mortgage and CRE, and emerging esoteric asset classes.   Key responsibilities include: Leading due diligence and credit underwriting for structured...

What You'll Do: We’re seeking a Senior Strategist to join our Real Estate & Private Markets investment marketing team! In this role, you’ll create, position, and help to set the strategic direction of product-related content and communications that support our real estate and private market product platforms while also supporting strategic planning, development, and execution of marketing initiatives that elevate brand awareness, drive client engagement, and support business growth for our U.S. institutional audience.   Partner with investment teams to create differentiated and impactful product collateral and thought capital that clearly articulates our value proposition. Ensure material has proper branding, style, appearance, tone and adheres to compliance and regulatory standards. Collaborate with other segment marketers and product and distribution teams to understand gaps and opportunities to build awareness of products and services through strategic marketing...

What You'll Do: We are seeking a detail-oriented and technically proficient Associate Accountant (Tax Withholding & Reporting) to join our Corporate Tax team. You'll support U.S. tax compliance related to customer payments. You will be responsible for accurate and timely withholding and payment of tax deposits to federal and state governments. You will prepare and file withholding tax returns and utilize OneSource and MasterTax platforms for reporting and compliance management. The position works in coordination with a global service center teams in Des Moines and in Pune, India, who assist with data preparation and processing. Additional Responsibilities Withholding Tax Compliance Monitor deposit schedules and thresholds to maintain compliance and prevent penalties. Reconcile withholding amounts with payments and filed returns. Tax Return Preparation & Filing Prepare and file periodic customer withholding returns (e.g., Forms 1042,...

What You'll Do: As a Sr Administrative Assistant within our Benefits & Protection space, you will be responsible for providing mid-level leaders with a broad range of administrative support. This individual will have regular interactions with a variety of leader levels, will be tasked with calendar management, project coordination, meeting support, and other value added tasks as determined by business need. This role ensures efficient management of day-to-day operations, including scheduling, meeting preparation, communications, and project assistance. Sr Administrative Assistants balance multiple priorities, act as a reliable resource and model high standards of service excellence across the administrative community. They should anticipate leader needs, act as liaisons with key internal and external partners, and ensure organizational priorities are executed efficiently and effectively. They work with confidentiality, influence, and collaboration while supporting a high...

What You'll Do: We’re adding a newly created leadership role within Asset Management to help drive the strategy, governance, and growth of our Collective Investment Trust (CIT) platform — a fast-growing and increasingly important part of our retirement business.   With in-house trust capabilities, our CIT platform offers differentiated flexibility across product design, fiduciary governance, and distribution. This role sits at the center of investments, trust governance, and distribution, ensuring the CIT business scales strategically while maintaining strong fiduciary and risk standards.   This is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of strategy, product, retirement markets, and fiduciary oversight.   CIT Strategy, Product & Commercial Alignment Help shape the strategy and evolution of the CIT platform within the retirement channel Partner with investment teams on the design, launch, and ongoing management of CIT strategies Evaluate...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Treasury Analyst III to join our Corporate Treasury team. In this role, you’ll use your Treasury knowledge to positively impact the business, as well as participate in special projects collaborating with multiple teams. Partnering with individuals and teams to recommend and implement Treasury solutions. Providing support of daily cash management processes. Analyzing enterprise cash flows, identifying trends and variances, developing and updating cash flow forecasts to support decision-making.Identifying opportunities for process improvement and areas of risk, as well as business gaps within the Treasury operations and cash management functions. Acting as a liaison and technical advisor on Treasury issues, consulting with banks and Treasury service providers and educating internal stakeholders on bank products, services, and systems. Identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving technical issues related to payments, systems, and...

What You'll Do: As an Investment Data Operations Analyst on our Data Operations Team in our Des Moines office, you'll independently perform daily tasks, data analysis, investment valuation, and ad hoc requests to support the investment lifecycle within a global infrastructure. The team operates in a fast-paced environment that places an emphasis on continuous learning, collaboration, and maintaining an equitable and fun working environment. Here are additional examples of the types of things you'll do: Collect and verify investment data while ensuring accurate and up to date security information is shared across various operational systems encompassing multiple asset classes including Fixed Income, Equities, and Derivatives. Support global investment initiatives through participation in projects, process reviews and/or system improvements. Proactively diagnose and manage high risk issues by reviewing and identifying operational improvements to ensure that data is...

What You'll Do: As an Advisor Relationship Associate , you will be responsible for providing fundamental services and support to financial professionals in order to acquire new business and serve, grow and retain existing retirement business. Alongside Advisor Care teammates, serve as a key point of contact to financial professionals and their support staff. Coordinate with other service teams across RIS. Customer Service & Relationship Management: Partner with Advisor Relationship Consultant/Specialist as a key point of contact to the advisor to deliver excellent service. Ensure deliverables are appropriate, complete, and accurate. Take ownership of escalated/time-sensitive service issues. Clear, concise communication is required with both internal and external audiences. Business Operations & Analysis: Coordinate with internal partners & manage investment and fee change process. Create and maintain accurate documentation in Salesforce. Technology &...

What You'll Do: As an Integration Manager , you'll get the opportunity to manage a queue of Salesforce work orders to drive payroll integration projects with our clients and their payroll providers. Ensure timely, accurate, and secure integrations through file testing. Demonstrate the ability to communicate professionally and consultatively with clients, payroll providers, other external vendors, and our internal business partners, including client onboarding and client service team members. Demonstrate the aptitude to learn payroll processes and procedures and understand the cross functional impact of payroll on other retirement processes.   Manage a queue of work orders to drive new EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) integrations between Principal’s recordkeeping systems and client payroll systems. Provide maintenance, research and troubleshooting for existing EDI integrations. Deliver concierge level customer service and effective change management practices to...

What You'll Do: As a Client Service Manager 1 on our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Administration team, you’ll manage and provide consultation to several key client accounts handling all aspects of their ESOP plans. You’ll proactively build relationships with C-Suite executives, company owners, financial executives and HR personnel while balancing technical activities of the plans.  Educating, teaching and handling their unique requests provides for a very valued partner experience with your clients.    Here are a few examples of the kinds of things you'll do: Develop a working knowledge of ESOP technical requirements to create and propose solutions to meet client needs. Understand and implement key features on plan documents such as performing trust accounting, compliance testing and government reporting. Take the lead on client ESOP allocations, reports, participant stock statements, and distribution and cash management services. Communicate with...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Financial Analyst V to join our Benefits & Protection Finance team. In this role, you’ll focus on financial analysis and modeling of expense impacts for strategic initiatives and other projects. Provide expertise, project support, and project leadership for complex projects in support of the financial function and the goals of the business unit. This includes identifying project barriers, alternative solutions for implementation, follow up actions needed, and the impact on financial and other goals of the company. Lead large projects that could involve the coordination of several areas. Must be able to manage and prioritize several small projects at the same time. Perform financial analysis and research; identify trends and variances on a timely basis for use by management and other operating areas in decision making. Make recommendations as appropriate. Initiate opportunities to provide technical and business expertise to...

What You'll Do: Principal Global Investors is the perfect opportunity to gain real world experience in the investment management industry. Our Investment Operations Extended Internship/Co-Op (May to December 2026) will allow you to play a key role in supporting the investment management process by focusing on process improvement, projects, strong controls and data integrity.   Principal Global Investors is a premier global asset management firm with over $630 Billion in assets under management. We operate globally and therefore; you will be a part of our global operations department that is responsible for providing timely and accurate investment data to investment boutiques and clients globally. Each intern opportunity will differ based on the needs of the business area. Generally, interns will be exposed to or be responsible for:   Collaborating with other teams in Investment Operations to complete tasks and develop solutions Working with data consumers and...

What You'll Do: As a Portfolio Analyst, you’ll join the dedicated portfolio management team of the Principal Enhanced Property Fund, L.P., a $5 billion open-end fund with a 21-year track record. In this role you’ll review private commercial real estate investments and provide analytical, reporting, and other support within the real estate investment team. Responsibilities include investment and capital deployment review, sensitivity and variance analysis of annual operating budgets and business plans, asset valuation models, portfolio diversification measures, performance returns and attribution, client reporting and other asset/portfolio metrics.     This is an opportunity for an analytically curious professional who enjoys connecting data, technology, and investment strategy—and who is comfortable leveraging AI-enabled tools and advanced analytics to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and insight.   What You’ll Do Portfolio & Investment Analysis Develop...

What You'll Do: We're looking for a Portfolio Associate to join our team! In this role you’ll provide financial and operational support to portfolio management, research and trading teams to aid in the management of fixed income portfolios. You’ll monitor daily market developments and portfolio compliance, conduct research and analysis, run/create and analyze statistical reports, and execute special projects.   Day to day responsibilities: Portfolio Analysis: Analyze portfolio performance, analytics, and attribution by utilizing tools such as Bloomberg, Aladdin and quantitative techniques. Assist portfolio managers by running risk/attribution reports versus appropriate benchmarks. Review and ensure portfolio compliance with guidelines. Portfolio Construction and Management: Work with portfolio management to establish and implement investment strategy across client portfolios using various tools to develop specific portfolio buy/sell trades affect exposure rebalancing....

What You'll Do: Do you have a passion for storytelling and creating best in class marketing strategy?   As a Lead Nurture Strategist on our B2C Segment Marketing Team, you will play a pivotal role in developing and activating an education content strategy serving our individual participant investment planning and products.   You’ll deliver content across media to engage, educate and retain our target audience. Your primary goal will be to build a comprehensive content strategy that drives engagement, education and grows participant confidence in their unique financial journey, while ultimately contributing to the company's growth and success through strategic content initiatives.   What you’ll do: Develop and implement long-term education strategies in line with individual participant personal investment marketing objectives. Identify target audience personas, content themes, and journey-specific content support. Establish consistent content themes across...

What You'll Do: As a Client Service Manager , you will manage a group of Non-Qualified (NQ) clients by independently delivering accurate and timely retirement plan administrative and client services. Independently establishes and maintains effective relationships with nonqualified clients and financial professionals to ensure client retention, growth of the client service block and profitability for all stakeholders. Embodies non-qualified core values in all interactions. Establish and maintain effective relationships with non-qualified clients, financial professionals and internal service teams to ensure client retention, growth of the client service block and profitability for all partners. Embody non-qualified core values in all interactions. Identify customer expectations and develop a strong working relationship. Use creativity, problem solving skills, and in-depth product knowledge for successfully arriving at solutions for retaining clients and resolving...