Principal Financial Group
Dec 28, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Product Marketing – Asset Management professional to join our team! This role partners closely with senior asset class marketers and investment experts to develop compelling product-related content and communications across multiple platforms, including U.S. and international mutual funds, SMAs, CITs, and ETFs. The ideal candidate will have strong marketing expertise, financial services knowledge, and the ability to manage projects from concept to execution. Key Responsibilities: Content Development & Communication Collaborate with senior marketers to create product-related content and communications for various investment platforms. Develop investment thought leadership and marketing collateral. Ensure consistent and timely integration of content across print (presentations, brochures, thought leadership)  and digital channels (website, social media, email, mobile). Project Execution & Quality Control Lead the...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 24, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Regional Director- Retirement Investments to provide concise and insightful investment analysis and market intelligence to new and existing retirement plan clients and advisors. Work to strengthen and reinforce Principal's global investment management brand internally and externally leading to the successful placement of Principal-branded investments in retirement client's plan investment lineups. Lead a regional team of investment specialists and coordinate the efforts of the region.     Serve as the Subject Matter Expert by driving awareness, confidence, and understanding of the Principal Branded Investment Platform. Coordination and execution of field meetings and communications in each territory with the WSRS Sales team as well as customer care and advisor care teams. These interactions will consist of one-on-one meetings with financial advisors, existing and prospective Plan Sponsor meetings, Advisor and Client events, conference...
Principal Financial Group Denver, CO, USA
Dec 24, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Market Director- Investment Only(DCIO), Southeast market to join our team! In this role you'll lead Principal’s DCIO distribution strategy in the Southeast Market, driving net asset growth across a full spectrum of asset classes including Equity, Fixed Income, Stable Value, Target Date, Liability‑Driven Investing, Real Estate, and Private Assets—delivered through mutual funds, CITs, ETFs, and Separate Accounts. Activating aggregator/home‑office lists, and converting advisor pipelines through fiduciary‑aligned, consultative selling.   Territory Strategy & Coverage Territory: DE, MD, DC, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TN and PR Build and execute a Southeast Market plan targeting retirement plan advisors (RPAs), consultants, and recordkeeping wholesalers; prioritize high‑potential firms and aggregators to expand Principal’s footprint. Experience creating data enabled sales plans to maximize efficiency, sales growth and territory...
Principal Financial Group Charlotte, NC, USA
Dec 24, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re looking for an Associate Actuary or Assistant Financial Director to join our Financial Reporting team! In this role, you’ll be responsible for managing the forecast model and driving the forecast process.   Responsibilities Include: Collaborate across teams to ensure consistency of modeling, researching results, and improving the forecasting process. Responsible for the review and analysis of the financial forecast, synthesizing and communicating the key metrics and messages, and working with business management to ensure alignment on assumptions and results. Apply actuarial analysis in the development and maintenance of sound, efficient, and accurate systems to support calculations and recommendations. This role may have future people leadership opportunities.   Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 24, 2025  
What You'll Do: Help us transform customer feedback into action that shapes the future of our customer experience.   We’re looking for a Voice of Customer (VOC) Operations Analyst who is passionate about understanding what customers need—and even more passionate about turning those insights into strategies that matter. In this role, you’ll lead the next stage of our VOC program, using Qualtrics and other tools to design how we listen, analyze, and act on customer feedback across channels and journeys.   You’ll serve as the bridge between marketing, enterprise CX, data, and technology teams—ensuring customer insight is not just collected, but embedded into everyday decisions, campaign performance, and enterprise experience transformation.   What You’ll Do Design & Evolve Our VOC Listening Strategy Lead the creation, deployment, and ongoing optimization of VOC. Manage a high volume of VOC intake requests by gathering requirements, choosing the...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 23, 2025  
What You'll Do: We're looking for a Director of Document Services! In this role you’ll lead overall business support for Retirement & Income Solution document functions. In addition, you’ll collaborate with business leaders to establish strategies, budgets, policies and quality control procedures.   You'll have the opportunity to:  Provide strategic direction and leadership within Document Services. Manage and direct staff responsible for providing comprehensive Plan document and agreement drafting services to RIS internal and external clients. Communicate vision, goals and objectives to build line of sight for staff. Empower, encourage, and develop staff to enable them in being successful. Manage and coach staff, which includes hiring, training, career development, budgeting and financial management. Engage and build a high-caliber team; ensuring a strong bench; mentoring and developing junior talent to succeed; and being a champion of the culture of PFG and of the...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 23, 2025  
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...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 23, 2025  
What You'll Do: Principal is seeking a curious, self-motivated Procurement Analyst with a background in supply chain and a passion for data and analytics. In this role, you’ll partner with our Global Sourcing team—both domestically and internationally—to drive procurement insights, enable smarter decision-making, and increase visibility across our sourcing initiatives. This is a highly collaborative role where you’ll help build scalable reporting dashboards, use AI tools to create automated workflows and work closely with category sourcing consultants to uncover opportunities and support strategic execution. You’ll also engage with leaders across international offices, helping elevate data quality, analysis, and insights globally.   What You’ll Do Build, maintain, and automate dashboards and reports to track progress against annual sourcing and procurement goals. Own and lead key analytical processes supporting international sourcing initiatives, including data...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 23, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Private Markets Product Manager with a specific focus on real estate to define, develop, implement, and maintain investment products through their lifecycle! In this role, you'll serve as a liaison with the distribution teams, product specialists, and product development Assess competitor capabilities, figure out the best industry practices, and examine what differentiates best in class products and managers allowing the team to build strategies and find opportunities that are durable, profitable and aligned with the vision and objectives of Principal Real Estate Collaborate with Product Development and the distributions teams to coordinate timely and thorough communication to investors to support their investment due diligence effort Project manage and socialize fund launches with all relevant partners across Principal Asset Management Assist with the structuring and documentation of new and existing funds Work closely with...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 23, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re looking for an Assistant Actuary or Financial Analyst V to join our Specialty Benefits Division - Finance & Reporting team. In this role, you’ll focus on FP&A for workplace benefits and individual disability. Tasks Include: Primary resource for FP&A requests such as financial evaluation of strategic initiatives and preparation of board materials. This could include the quantification of strategic investments and preparation of business cases. Collaborating with key business partners to prepare quarterly short-term and long-term forecasts for workplace benefits and individual disability. Modernizing the forecast process with consideration to available technology to drive speed and efficiency. Support efforts to adjust financial processes for upcoming changes to the financial data. Manage areas of responsibility and projects assigned with consideration to timing required and quality of work, documentation needed, reports on...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 23, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Senior Accounting Analyst to join our Corporate Accounting team. In this role, you'll play a key role in financial reporting for the company on both a U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and U.S. Statutory Accounting Principles (SAP) basis! Complete GAAP/SAP internal and external reporting, including financial statement audits and interaction with external auditor Prepare and review financial statements for affiliated reinsurance entities Interact with all business areas and be involved in a mix of monthly close work and problem solving/project work, including data validations, educating end users on impacts to them (load files, reports, etc.) Partner with metadata team, working with business units to understand requested metadata changes and impacts on reporting; will need to obtain an understanding of the equitization process and all external reporting Oversight for eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 22, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re hiring for a Financial Analyst III to join our Life Pricing Actuarial team. In this role, we are looking for someone who thrives on solving unique problems with advance analytical skills and enjoys working with several internal partners and tools. Tasks Include: Participate in the maintenance, preparation and analysis of financial information used in the product development and pricing processes Work with a variety of technology including R, SAS, Excel, and Integrate/MG-ALFA to set rates, analyze profitability and competitiveness, provide reinsurance support, and much more Use strong technical skills to do financial research and calculations, as well as maintain and build both new and existing processes Collaborate across teams, partner with product management, inforce management, underwriting, technology teams, financial reporting, and others Perform other job-related duties and special projects as needed Operating at the intersection...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 20, 2025  
What You'll Do: We are seeking an Associate Portfolio Manager to join our Private Real Estate Debt team, with a primary focus on managing and supporting the General Account portfolio. In this role, you will partner closely with senior Portfolio Managers to help develop and execute portfolio strategy, evaluate risk and return across investments, and support the ongoing management of real estate debt portfolios. Key areas of responsibility: Support a Sr Portfolio Manager in the development and execution of portfolio strategy and tactical plans aligned with client and General Account risk/return objectives, including product type, geography, leverage, and tax considerations. Manage smaller or less complex portfolios independently and provide analytical and strategic support on larger or more complex portfolios and funds. Monitor portfolio performance and risk metrics; conduct sensitivity, variance, and scenario analyses; and recommend adjustments to holdings as...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 20, 2025  
What You'll Do: As a Strategic Client Group Analyst, you’ll contribute to the team’s collaboration with sales, marketing, product development and others to maximize the firm’s ability to generate interest across capabilities by providing analytical support, internal reporting and sales idea logistics for the team.  This role will be highly integrated into our key account team representing our largest strategic relationships and will offer you a robust experience within asset management.   Here are a few examples of the types of things you’ll do: Utilize various analytical tools, including Morningstar, Evestment, Dakota Live, and Cerulli to source and research investment opportunities at strategic relationships. Support and maintain Monthly & Quarterly sales reporting, as well as assist with strategic planning and budgeting. Coordinate deliverables for key relationships, including investment proposals, key performance indicators, activity reporting, and investment...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 20, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re looking for an AVP- Enterprise Business Transformation to be on our Transformation team. In this role you'll be The Assistant Vice President – Business Transformation is an enterprise leader responsible for setting the strategic direction, governance model, and operating framework for how the expense management discipline operates and scales, accelerates efficiency initiatives, and help mature the capability for the future. This role shapes and oversees the enterprise-wide efficiency optimization agenda, ensuring alignment to long-term financial aspirations, and organizational strategy. The AVP partners closely with the Vice President, ELT/SLT, and transformation champions, functional and business leaders to establish transformation principles, guardrails, prioritize enterprise opportunities, and drive decision-making across business units and corporate functions for key transformational initiatives. This leader oversees the portfolio, enables capability...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 20, 2025  
What You'll Do: As a Client Service Specialist II , you’ll put your communication skills and attention to detail into action and help make a positive impact on the clients we service. You will excel in this role by having a strong ability to learn, and be empowered to make your own decisions. Your day will be filled with: Collaborating with client facing roles, and communicating effectively with internal clients regarding special timing requests, and routine employee data, while delivering excellent client service. Ensuring client needs are met by providing consolidated, timely, and complete reporting. This may include communicating on complex plan administration procedures. Reviewing and analyzing data for reasonability and accuracy. Recognizing and research unusual or complex situations and provide timely resolutions to business partners and clients. Developing an extensive knowledge of our recordkeeping system and processes in order to assist and support...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 19, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re looking for an Equity Analyst to join the Aligned Investors team. Aligned Investors has a very successful long-term track record running two US equity strategies with $68 billion in assets under management!   Aligned Investor's primary funds are the Principal MidCap Fund and Principal Blue Chip Fund. The Aligned investment process involves long-term ownership of high-quality businesses with competitive advantages that are led by owner-operators. The process relies completely on fundamental company research. Our team is made up of passionate analysts who all work to deliver outstanding returns for our clients over full market cycles.   You will have the opportunity to direct and conduct fundamental research on US companies, monitor portfolio holdings and make recommendations to the Portfolio Managers. More specifically you will be able to:   Conduct fundamental, primary research on individual companies. Analyze the impact of competitive,...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 19, 2025  
What You'll Do: This role is responsible for sales activities for Principal Retail Annuities and Income Solutions. You'll impact sales by partnering with financial advisors sharing sales ideas, answering product questions, identifying new sales opportunities, and managing assigned daily activities of their territory.   Here are a few examples of the types of things you'll do: Develop and execute sales plans, activity reports and rotation schedules.  Works closely with Internal Wholesaler within assigned territory for collective success. Presentations to large groups(banker/advisor training programs) and one on one in a face to face and a virtual setting, ability to provide case design consultation and timely follow-ups.  *Heavy incentive component in addition to salary listed.   We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a...
Principal Financial Group Washington, DC, USA
Dec 19, 2025  
What You'll Do: We’re   looking for an Equity Portfolio Management Associate to join   the Principal Equities team . In this ro le,   yo u’ll   provide trading, reporting, and ad-hoc support to the Portfolio Management team!     Portfolio Management Support:   Provide analytical support to Portfolio Managers by   monitoring   cash, entering   trades   and   assisting   with compliance monitoring.   Operations Oversight:   Act as operational liaison with Principal Asset Management operations & compliance teams to address issues and ensure operational consistency with firm practices.   Marketing Support & Data Analysis : Provide   accurate   information to   our   client   f or marketing needs.   Performance : Act as subject matter expert for data analysis and reporting, including risk/return metrics and performance attribution.   Provide input on projects to improve reporting...
Principal Financial Group Des Moines, IA, USA
Dec 19, 2025  
What You'll Do: Do you have a passion for helping others achieve their financial goals and live their best lives?   If so,our Plan Education & Advice Team has an exciting opportunity for you! We’re looking for a Retirement Education Specialist to join our dynamic team. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, engaging with 5 million individuals through innovative technology and exceptional talent—just like you! Additional responsibilities include: Consult with the development and implementation of education plans that increase participation in the retirement plan. Collaborate with the Plan Sponsor, Advisor and internal teams to provide appropriate education solutions. Develop appropriate needs assessments that help retirement plan participants make informed decisions about their retirement savings and payout strategies. Present workshops and one-on-one meetings for participants. Principal Financial Group® has been once...
Principal Financial Group Louisville, KY, USA