Senior Quantitative Strategist recruitment

Role

As the Senior Quantitative Strategist, you will be responsible for maintaining a daily publication based on our proprietary research. In respect to our existing quantitative research, you will participate in the full development cycle of testing and improving our proprietary research models. Our key product is a model that combines quantitative, technical and fundamental research. This process begins with database construction and design and ends with rigorous statistical testing and communication of testing results. The final product is a daily publication with active trading ideas for sales traders and external clients. The Senior Quantitative Strategist will be working closely with a Technical Analyst. 

We also desire a Senior Quantitative Strategist that has a proven history of developing their own models and has published research for 2-5 years for a tier 1 sell side firm. We will be looking to publish your own research as well.

It will be expected that you are a self-starter and can create innovative screening models for the purpose of providing strategic and sector/stock specific research publications.   It will also be expected that the quantitative strategist is capable of fulfilling bespoke client request and developing internal models from scratch.

The candidate will need a strong grasp of statistical concepts and must be highly proficient with industry standards and data vendors, such as Factset (our primary vendor). Knowledge of technologies such as C++ or C#, SQL, and R are a plus. The ideal candidate will also have a strong practical and theoretical knowledge of equity securities. This position is based in our London office.

Responsibilities


+ Maintain and build upon Factset databases that form the backbone of our quantitative research.
+ Analyze the performance of our various equity strategies.
+ Develop new equity methodologies.
+ Develop equity algorithms for our model portfolios.
+ Communicate quantitatively driven investment opinions to clients and sales traders on a daily basis

Desired Skills Experience

+ The ability to distill complex ideas into simple explanations.

+ A good writer.
+ A strong interest in investing.
+ A bachelor`s degree in a quantitative or financial discipline; a CFA, MBA or graduate degree in a quantitative or financial discipline is preferred.
+ Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as C++ or C# is a plus.
+ Experience with Factset or relational databases and SQL is a plus.
+ Experience with statistical modeling languages is a plus
+ The ability to multi-task and handle a dynamic work-flow.

 

Company Description

Sunrise Broker, founded in 1991, was the first London-based broker to focus on over the counter derivatives products. It has been established since then as a leader of most equity derivative listed and OTC products. Notably, it has been ranked the number 1 equity derivatives broker for the last five years by Risk Magazine. Historically, the firm has built a strong franchise on the most complex financial instruments. Today, the firm is building out their equity trading desk and proprietary equity research products.  Sunrise Brokers possesses proprietary, client driven research products that cannot be found at most sell side execution shops or top tier full service financial firms.

WE WILL NOT RESPOND TO RECRUITING FIRMS OR AGENCIES. DIRECT APPLICATIONS ONLY PLEASE.