Investment Solutions provides Wealth Management clients with investment solutions across all major asset classes including equities, fixed income, alternatives, multi-asset and money market funds.
As an Associate in the Wealth Management Solutions - Data Analytics and Modelling team, you will develop quantitative tools to enhance investment process for multi-asset portfolios.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide day-to-day support to Portfolio Managers, including data aggregation, analytics and reporting
- Conduct research and ad-hoc analysis on performance attribution, risk management and portfolio construction
- Propose new and redesign existing process flows, models and excel based models/tools to achieve efficiencies and controls.
- Work with model governance groups for model review and maintenance
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Minimum 7 years of work experience in Quantitative research / modelling or equivalent data science role in an asset/wealth management organisation
- Under Graduate /Graduate Degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, physics, statistics, engineering, etc.
- Fluent programming skills in Python
- Experience executing process automation or user tool automation projects
- Basic understanding of statistics is required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present logically, precisely and in a simple manner, complex and technical issues
- Ability to parse complex tasks and juggle priorities in a highly dynamic professional environment
- Keen interest in financial markets
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Experience in R or Matlab good to have
- Hands-on experience with econometric analysis and market risk modeling is a plus
- Certifications like PRM/FRM, CFA and CQF are a good to have