Quantitative Research Analyst

Description:

Our Client a industry leading Investment firm is seeking a Quantitative Analyst to join its portfolio management department. As a Quantitative Analyst, you will enhance and maintain a scalable, systematic investment process to run asset management portfolios. You will develop, maintain, and test systematic trading signals for global cross-asset portfolios with intermediate to long-term horizons, utilizing advanced methods in quantitative analysis and portfolio optimisation.

• Understanding, implementing and back-testing different systematic trading strategies and portfolio construction methodologies.
• Producing research and trading ideas for tactical asset allocation, and other ways of enhancing portfolio returns.
• Enhancing expected returns forecasts, suggesting or modifying assets for inclusion, and back-testing and calculating risk contributions of changes to the current strategic asset allocation.
• An advanced Master's degree or Ph.D. in a quantitative discipline, such as Engineering, Maths, Physics, Mathematical Finance or Computer Science.
• Advanced programming expertise in languages such as Python for quantitative modelling, as well as experience in databases like SQL.
• Experience in building systematic strategies (any asset class).
• Good working knowledge of the latest quantitative methods used in signal generation, model testing and portfolio construction.
• Outstanding interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to manage relationships effectively.