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Quantitative Business Analyst

Employer
O'Connell Resourcing
Location
London, United Kingdom
Salary
Highly Competitive
Closing date
Mar 21, 2019

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Job Function
Hedge Funds
Industry Sector
Finance - General
Employment Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelors

Their ideal candidate should:

  • Hold a numerical degree from a leading University
  • Have a number of years' experience working in an equities environment
  • Possess a quantitative background, which could be from:
    • A CFA / Actuarial education
    • Quantitative research / development experience
    • A Risk Management environment
  • Hold soft developer skills and the ability to program in:
    • Python
    • VBA
    • SQL
  • Database construction and management experience
  • Personality fit to work in a lean and close knit team

This role will involve working on the investment desk utilising historic data to generate trade ideas. The successful candidate will be expected to apply prior knowledge of statistics/econometrics/time series management to develop a database containing historical data from the new OMS/PMS along with accessible market data from Bloomberg and CIQ.

Subsequently this person will then be expected to support the investment team through:

  • Extracting information from the database
    • Back testing various hypotheses
    • Producing statistical relevant results
  • Developing own intuition as to what could be relevant

This company fosters a level of excellence that it expects its employees to meet and as such only hires the best talent in the market. The firm affords an environment in which people can work autonomously and encourages people to develop and implement their own ideas. It is also a company renowned for greatly rewarding strong performance.

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