QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ANALYST recruitment
Our client a successful asset management company has a permanent opportunity for a Quantitative Research Analyst. They are looking for highly talented analytical individual to join their performance and investment risk team working with their CIO and Risk and Performance Analysts to progress a number of research based projects.
Core Responsibilities:
- Develop and enhance risk and performance functions.
- Research new statistical research input and trading strategies
- Provide support and input to investment managers undertaking projects which require analytical assistance.
- Work under the guidance of CIO and closely with Performance Risk Analyst.
Core Skills:
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong IT skills
- Analytical mindset
- Good team worker
- Proactive
Core Requirements:
Graduate with strong numerical degree in engineering, mathematics, quantitative finance etc, Strong programming skills (Excel, MATLAB, VBA, SQL desirable), Experience of Morningstar Direct, Bloomberg, Datastream or equivalent would be helpful, Statistics experience, Desire to undertake/progressing with CFA examination programme.
July 12, 2012
• Tags: Asset Management careers in the UK, Quantitative Research Analyst recruitment • Posted in: Financial