B&B Analytics - Quantitative Analyst

About B&B Analytics :

B&B Analytics (BBA) is an analytics boutique, strategic advisor and financial technology provider founded in 2012 to deliver enhanced transparency and unique insight to family offices, asset managers, banks and insurance companies. BBA delivers value through:

- Cutting edge research and analytics capabilities across asset classes including non-bankable investments to deliver holistic insight on total wealth

- A risk-driven approach leveraging extensive macro scenario analysis and stress testing capabilities to enable clients to position for unforeseen outcomes

- Quantitatively robust yet intuitively sound frameworks that facilitate a disciplined and repeatable investment process

- Tailor made strategic advisory and consulting aimed at solving complex investment and risk management problems

About the Role :

The successful candidate will be a detail oriented individual who will lead the quantitative research team to automate investment processes, ensure the efficiency of system and data architecture and develop new investment tools. The candidate will also contribute towards developing new quantitative strategies and improving existing ones. The candidate will also be responsible for assisting in investment decision making through quantitative, macro and stock research.

Responsibilities :

- Perform daily/weekly/monthly tasks of performance and risk reporting

- Devise/improve models on new/existing product strategies in global markets, build models in the firm's platform, back-test strategies and reconcile back-tests with model outputs

- Own the project end-to-end from ideation till live implementation

- Develop and automate investment processes via Matlab and VBA

- Develop tools to integrate trading decision systems with risk management systems

- Conduct macro and sector research and analysis and provide recommendations to portfolio managers leveraging sell-side, in-house and crowdsourced intelligence.

- Keenly track global financial markets to Improve existing tools and identify new opportunities

- Assist the marketing and sales team in the technical documentation

- Ad hoc tasks (such as operational tasks, internal documentation tasks and preparation of marketing materials)

Skills/Experience :

- Must have demonstrated programming experience with Matlab and Excel-VBA. Experience in working / creating customized Matlab libraries will be a plus. (working knowledge of R and Python would be a plus)

- Thorough with complex financial concepts, performance and risk calculations

- Understanding of financial market products like options, futures, FX swaps etc.

- Keen observer of global financial markets and financial history

- Experienced in quantitative back-testing in asset classes, stocks, futures and options

- Thorough understanding of fundamental and technical investment research processes including macro and sector research

- Excellent Bloomberg skills

- Should be self-driven and detail oriented with an analytical mindset

- Should be a proactive and quick learner; a team player showing enthusiasm and drive to accomplish results in a fast-paced environment

- A track record of developing creative and innovative solutions would be highly appreciated

- Min. 4 years of relevant work experience

Qualifications :

- MS/PHD/Engineering backgrounds (IIT/IIM would be a plus)

- Background in economics/statistics/computer science/mathematics

- Must be a CFA/CAIA charter holder