11 jobs found in Des Moines, IA

What You'll Do: We’re looking for an Assistant Director - Investment  Accounting  to join our collaborative Investment Accounting team. This role  is responsible for  delivering and overseeing complex accounting and reporting for sophisticated investment strategies and asset classes. This highly visible position collaborates extensively with portfolio managers, investment operations, risk, compliance, tax, internal/external auditors, and technology teams to ensure robust reporting and control practices.   People Leadership   Foster an environment which embraces diversity and inclusion, emboldens change, provides clarity of vision and purpose, nurtures collaboration, promotes innovation and creativity, while producing results which are measured and recognized. Successfully  operates  within a global, matrixed organization, inspires  team  to embrace business  evolution  and helps them develop their skill sets through effective delegation and...

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 an Annuities Product Officer to join our Income Solutions Product team. In this role, you’ll serve as a strategic architect for our annuity business, shaping, leading, and executing the overarching strategy that supports the Individual Annuities business. It provides senior‑level product and business leadership to drive innovation, strengthen market competitiveness, and ensure our annuity solutions meet evolving customer and market needs. The role maintains a strong external presence, represents the business across the enterprise, and ensures we deliver differentiated, profitable, and operationally sound annuity offerings.   Business Strategy & Innovation: Develop and execute a comprehensive business strategy across the customer value stream for Individual Annuities in partnership with technology, distribution, product, finance, actuarial, and operations. Ensure business portfolio performance, competitiveness, pricing, and risk management...

What You'll Do: Gain hands-on experience in asset management.   Principal® Asset Management is looking for a motivated Summer 2026 Intern to join our Investment & Platform Oversight (IPO) team. This role offers meaningful exposure to investment due diligence, portfolio oversight, and the use of data to drive investment insights across our global platform.   The IPO team oversees internal and external investment managers for mutual funds, collective investment trusts, UCITs, and life insurance separate accounts. This is a unique opportunity for students with a strong interest in finance and proven analytical skills—especially in Excel—to work alongside experienced investment professionals.   What You’ll Do: As an intern, you’ll support the IPO team in core oversight responsibilities and special projects while building knowledge of financial markets, investment strategies, and institutional platforms.   Key responsibilities include: Assist in...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for Commercial Real Estate interns to join our Principal Real Estate team for an extended internship/co-op for January - August 2027. In this role, you’ll have exposure to many areas of Commercial Real Estate (CRE) while working specifically on one of the teams mentioned below. In this fast paced, constantly evolving environment, you will play a critical role in supporting your team, which is not only exciting, but the best way to learn. Principal Real Estate teams seeking interns: Private Debt Originations Asset Management/Ops Dedicated Private Equity Team Through our comprehensive training program, you will acquire valuable industry knowledge while receiving tailored development opportunities preparing you for future advancement.   Principal Real Estate, a top-10 global real estate manager with around $100Billion in assets under management, is the dedicated real estate investment group within Principal Asset Management. With...

What You'll Do: We are looking for a Senior Associate, Trust Administration and Operations to join our PGI Trust Company Operations and Governance team. You will support the daily administration, oversight, and operational integrity of the Trust Company. It operates independently to ensure timely and accurate execution of key functions, including regulatory reporting, compliance monitoring, monthly reconciliations, document management, SharePoint administration, and process improvement. You will enhance operational efficiency while ensuring adherence to trust documents, ERISA requirements, policies, and regulatory standards. Key Responsibilities Regulatory Reporting & Compliance Assist with regulatory filings, committee materials, internal audits, state exams, and annual CIT reporting, including audits and Form 5500s. Conduct ongoing compliance monitoring in line with policies and regulations. Omnibus Account Oversight & Reconciliation Coordinate...

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...

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 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: 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: 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...