Quant Analyst - Investment Bank

Quant (8-14 yrs)

An opportunity exists to join the Global Quantitative Research team of one of our Global Investment Banking Client and manage a team of Quantitative Associates.

- The global quantitative research team is primarily responsible for developing and writing quantitative based research from country selection to stock selection.

- The aim of the research is to aid the institutional clients of the investment bank to deliver superior risk adjusted returns.

- Part of the role also involves working closely with the senior leadership in their pursuit of additional business, preparing client pitches, assist pre-sales in responding to RFPs and present the Quant & Analytics capabilities of to prospective clients.

Key Responsibilities :

- Manage the workflow while working with the team of Associates on quant products, long term assignments and client requests.

- Assist in the design and implementation of equity quantitative models and databases.

- Analyze and interpret a wide range of financial and statistical data from a variety of vendor and internal databases for projects and presentations to issuers, investors, both institutional and retail

- Assist in the collection and / or creation of proprietary data sets.

- Fully understand the content, features and functionality of our clients- proprietary research database.

- Assist in the design, maintenance and distribution of customized data screens, be-spoke research and back-tests

- Good understanding of statistical and predictive modelling, and various machine learning algorithms

- Deep understanding of analytics domain across verticals

Key Requisites : MBA Finance. Post Graduate in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science or similar

Experience :

- 10-15 years of relevant industry experience.

- Strong quantitative background with good analytics exposure.

- A strong understanding of financial accounting and ratio construction is required.

- Knowledge of Capital Market/BFS Analytics

- Experience within an Equity/Fixed Income Research Environment.

- An awareness of financial accounting issues and market operations in various regional markets advantageous.

Skills :

Technical Skills

- Proven track record in managing small team of analysts.

- Knowledge of statistical packages such as R, Matlab, Python, SQL and other programming languages such as VBA.

- Knowledge of relational database structures required

- Superior Microsoft Excel skills.

- Knowledge of vendor platforms (Bloomberg, CapitalIQ, Factset, etc.)