Mid- Senior level Fixed income Quant – AWARD WINNING Global Asset Management Firm – Boston | Very active mandate recruitment
JOB DESCRIPTION
My client, a global asset management firm with an AUM in excess of $3 trillion is seeking to hire a mid-senior level quantitative analyst for their fixed income division. Their fixed income division is without question one of the countries’s leading with over $700 billion in fixed-income assets managed by more than 100 investment professionals. The opportunity is for an experienced fixed income quant to join this very strong team and operate as a quantitative researcher.
Location: Boston/ USA
The role:
- Enhance fixed income asset allocation models for managing global bond portfolios and champion the use of model outputs in the portfolio construction process.
- Support traders, research strategies and quantitative ideologies to a large degree
- Communicate and express complicated methodologies and theories to both senior quant’s and senior traders
- Work with core portfolio teams and undertake modeling in support of their specific investments
- Be pragmatic about approaches to modeling and quantitative analysis, and advocate for their use in managing the portfolios.
Requirements:
• An excellent quantitative PhD/MSc from a top school in a very quant focused thesis: Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Statistics Probability, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science
• Strong experience within the fixed income space
• Some programming experience in Excel VBA is beneficial
• Knowledge of Matlab and SQL are also desirable
• Strong mathematical/ statistical background.
In Return:
• A huge opportunity to attain significant progression within the quantitative sphere
• A large number of evolving projects to get your teeth stuck into and work expansively
• The chance to join arguably the strongest fixed income desk in the country with one of the largest AUM’s
• Impressive remuneration structure that pay extremely well both on base and bonus
• Have daily interaction with the business and be a key part of their unrivalled success, whilst enhance one’s own diversity of credentials
This is an immediate hire, interviews are to begin soon and early application is advised. GQR also welcomes tentative enquiries from suitably qualified individuals.
Confidentiality and utmost discretion is 100% assured.
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