smallcase - Quantitative Equity Strategy Analyst - Windmill Capital

About smallcase

- At smallcase, we are changing how India invests. smallcase is a leading provider of investment products & platforms to over 10 million Indians.

- We're a young, driven team of 250+ headquartered in Bangalore, yet operate in a remote-first manner optimizing for flexibility & efficiency. (https://hr. economictimes. indiatimes. com/news/trends/smallcase-announces-90-wfh-option-remote-working-allowance-for-its-employees/86426349) smallcase has been focused on offering innovative investing experiences & technology.

Our platforms are used by over 300 of India's largest financial brands and most respected institutions.

We are backed by world-class investors including top-tier funds (Sequoia Capital, Blume Ventures, Faering Capital, Premji Invest), institutions (DSP Group, Amazon, HDFC Bank) and notable operators (Nithin Kamath of Zerodha, Utpal Sheth of Trust Group, Tanmay Bhat) who believe in our mission of enabling better financial futures for every Indian.

About the role:

- We're looking to hire a quantitative equity strategist for our Investment Products (Equity Research Unit - Windmill Capital) team that primarily develops & maintains smallcases.

- Each smallcase can be treated as a basket of exchange traded instruments/index or mutual funds and uses proprietary quantitative algos/models to objectively select & weight stocks/ETFs

Responsibilities:

- Building quantitative financial models for stock selection and portfolio asset allocation for both retail and institutional clients

- Generating thematic trade and investment ideas tracking the Indian equity market, world indices, sectors, political happenings, and economic events to generate timely investment ideas and thesis

- Modeling new intricate investment performance and analysis tools for retail investors

Requirements:

- Very strong quant, economic and financial background

- Experience with ML/AI applications in financial markets

- Experience with building financial models in excel VBA, R and python

- Basic knowledge of Refinitiv products (Eikon, TRKD)

- Experience with data science applications, data wrangling and data mining techniques

- Strong knowledge of Python

- Experience with NoSQL/SQL databases like MongoDB and PostgreSQL

- More than 1 year of relevant domain experience

- Projects and course works related to the field of financial data science would be an added advantage

- CFA/FRM/CQF would be an added advantage

Culture at smallcase:

- We are not just building a business, we are making a long-lasting impact both in the wealth & assets landscape with our unique technology & expanding ecosystem.

- Over the last 8 years our team, products, and platforms have grown and so have our ambitions.

- Innovation remains at the heart of what we do.

- Our other core values are transparency, integrity & long-term thinking.

Our key: asset has always been our people, and we empower individuals to build and do some of the best work in their lifetimes at smallcase.

Flexibility, ownership and constant feedback loops are some of the ways we keep evolving the working environment, and that is reflected in one of the highest employee NPS scores in the industry