Risk & Quantitative Analysis – Equity Associate recruitment
Risk Quantitative Analysis (RQA) performs the risk management activities and quantitative analysis functions at BlackRock. The RQA Equity team is responsible for managing BlackRock's equity market risk and developing quantitative models and analysis to support the investment process. Associates will manage equity portfolio risk and build quantitative models to forecast economic and market trends, applying mathematical models and statistical techniques. Responsibilities include:
Risk Management:
- Working with senior risk managers to help ensure that the risks are fully understood by Portfolio Management and are consistent with our client's objectives and risk constraints.
- Helping portfolio manager apply proprietary techniques for portfolio construction and alpha generation
- Analyzing and reporting how macro-economic factors drive the investment performance
- Knowing the investment risks by thoroughly understanding all investments and trades
Quantitative Analysis:
- Build models to understand macroeconomic trends and the evolution of risk and return
- Study, analyze and report on economic and financial data
- Build quantitative models to help generate portfolio outperformance
Skills Qualifications:
We are seeking qualified candidates with strong quantitative and computational skills.
- PhD in economics of finance
- Knowledge of investments, portfolio management, and econometrics highly desirable.
- Excellent communications skills and ability to work well in a team environment in essential.
- Prior experience with financial data (e.g., Compustat, IBES, CRSP), analysis tools (e.g., Fact Set, MarketQA, Bloomberg), Statistical software (e.g. SAS, S-PLUS, MATLAB), and knowledge of programming languages (e.g. C++, Perl, SQL) is a strong plus.
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer--M/F/D/V.
Skills
BlackRock is one of the world's preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions -- from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world's capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.