39 management jobs found in Des Moines, IA

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...

What You'll Do: We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented intern to join our Risk Management team for Summer 2026! This position offers hands-on experience in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across the organization. You will work closely with risk management professionals while having exposure to business leaders, control partners, and internal audit as we work through real-world risks & opportunities that financial services face in today’s business environment. 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 purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years! What You'll Do Assist in risk assessments and control evaluations across our business operations Support the development and...

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: 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...

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...

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: 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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

What You'll Do: As a Defined Benefit Transition Manager , you will coordinate the termination process of defined benefit plans and other deconversion services, such as contract terminations, with retirement plan sponsors. Develop strong client relationships through effective communication and delivery of expectations. Ensure that regulatory deadlines are met by client and recognize and research unusual and complex situations on behalf of clients. Assist with contributing to a high-performing team centered around innovation, process improvement, and collaboration.   Utilizing project management methodology, serve as the main point of contact for client interaction through various deconversion processes, including plan terminations and contract terminations. Implement a deconversion project plan and execute it to successful completion. Provide prompt and accurate technical, statutory, and regulatory information to customers to ensure a smooth termination process. Lead...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for an experienced fixed income credit analyst to join our Investment Grade team. In this role, you’ll cover the TMT and Industrial sectors!  Conduct independent fundamental research and analysis on assigned companies/sectors, develop financial models, and provide investment recommendations, credit ratings and outlooks Analysis includes economic and competitive analysis, financial modeling, and relative value assessment Respond to inquiries from various stakeholders and represent research function in client meetings Monitor financial markets, current events, and economic trends to identify opportunities and risks Build and maintain industry relationships to ensure consistent information flow Assist with staff development through coaching, mentoring, and training team members About Principal Asset Management Principal Asset Management is the global investment solutions business for Principal Financial Group® (Nasdaq: PFG),...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our WSRS technology team. In this role, you’ll be a key player and leader in strategically shaping our technological future from innovative customer experiences to robust core systems. We want your leadership skills and expertise in utilizing technology to drive operational efficiency and business growth. You will have the opportunity to:   Lead and mentor high-performing software engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. Shape our technology strategy by collaborating across scrum teams to champion a unified and consistent approach to software engineering, ensuring efficiency and quality while pioneering the latest techniques. Lead the way in decision-making, providing the tools and data insights needed to ensure our systems continue to support critical business outcomes. Be the trailblazer who carves innovative pathways, not just to...

What You'll Do: **Multiple Openings**   As an Infrastructure Engineer in Benefits & Protection Distribution IT, you’ll assist with production, implementation, and support of new and existing technologies in our Des Moines office. You’ll interface with both internal and external customers, problem solving on a wide array of technical questions/issues. This team has a focus on quality of work and professionalism with both onsite and virtual collaboration.   As a Member of the Team, You Will: Maintain a high level of customer service by answering business partner’s calls, emails, and instant messages. Direct interaction with business partners to identify, research, document, design solutions and resolve issues. Responsible for learning and providing contributions by understanding technical functionality, usability, design, security, and operation of supported systems. Independently research complex solutions in a fast-paced environment.   Tools and...