Analyst/Senior Analyst - Quant Research - Equity Strategy - CA/IIM/IIT

Quant background :

This vacancy is for a research support role within the Equity Derivatives Strategy team. It will suit a candidate with excellent programming skills who is looking for an opportunity to move into a quantitatively-focused markets research role. The candidate will have significant coding experience and will initially be expected to put these skills to use implementing and maintaining the group's bespoke analytics suite. A first project will be to help re-implement existing Excel/VBA tools into a more sophisticated computational environment.

The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and should place high value upon producing clean, efficient and well-documented code. Over time the candidate will become increasingly involved in the group's research and general analytics output. Amongst other things, this will involve: managing client request flow, conducting strategy backtests, producing content for publications, and generating trade ideas for internal and external clients.

Essential attributes:

- A genuine interest in financial markets.

- In-depth knowledge of at least one of Python, Matlab, R.

- High degree of working proficiency in Excel and VBA.

- Comfort working with large data sets.

- Strong communication skills, including fluent spoken and written English.

Desirable attributes :

- SQL databases.

- pandas, numpy and scipy.

- Subversion / Git.

- Object-oriented design.

- Unit-testing.

- Compiled languages (C, C++, Java).

- KDB, NOSQL.

- Distributed and parallel computing.

- Object oriented programming

Fundamental Research background :

This vacancy is for a research support role within the Equity Derivatives Strategy team. Candidates would work closely with the Synthetic Equity Strategy desk. It will suit a candidate with fundamental research background who is looking for an opportunity to move into a quantitatively-focused markets research role.

Key responsibilities :

- Fundamental analysis of European equity market to recommend delta one trades on sectors, indices and single stock

- To create thematic baskets by analyzing the current macro theme and create custom baskets

- To suggest options trading strategies on dividend futures for global dividend futures indices

- To track European mergers and acquisitions and create a custom M&A basket

Key skill set :

- Chartered Accountant (First / Second attempt)

- Good level of proficiency in accounting and financial analysis of companies

- Individuals with background in CF, equity research, corporate valuation etc. would be preferred

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills

- Attention to detail, number oriented and good level of motivation

- Experience in programming skills such as Python is preferable.