Fund Quantitative Analyst recruitment

                                                Fund Quantitative Analyst
 
who reports directly to the Head of Product Advisory – Italy, a quant function specialized in advising clients on portfolio funds construction.

The candidate will work in a dedicated team that supports the development of a customized business line for an important Italian network.

The main responsibilities of the candidate will be to develop, and implement a quantitative platform that will evaluate performance and risk of open-end mutual funds, meeting and illustrating/explaining results to the client.

Key responsibilities:

• Development and Implementation of a third parties deep quantitative fund screening tool (e.g. style analysis), producing automated reporting documents;
• Portfolio Construction Advisory;
• Clients Results Presentations;
• Ad-hoc position keeping and performance attribution report;
Skills and Qualifications:
• 3-5 years experience as fund of fund manager, fund selector/analyst, quant analyst, quantitative investment risk manager;
• Strong working knowledge of statistics; Master in economics, focused on econometrics, or statistics/mathematics or economics;
• Good/Expert level Matlab and Visual Basic for Office applications programming skills;
• Knowledge of Bloomberg, Factset; Morningstar Direct represent a nice to have;
• Strong self-starter and able to work independently and in team;
• Good relationship and communication skills to interact directly with the client and generally with people that do not have the same level of technical knowledge;
• Excellent English and Italian language knowledge.
 

What we offer:
• Permanent contract.
 

Location: Milan, Italy.