Role Overview
As a quantitative analyst, your foundation in financial market knowledge, accuracy and attention to detail, love of all things statistical and quantitative, as well as fluency in relevant programming languages leads you to success in this role. Flexibility, thirst to learn and love to work across different teams within the company is essential. Your work spans topics ranges from strategic asset allocation theory, trade optimization and technical solutioning. To keep the engine running, you play a vital role in the maintenance and improvement of existing products and do not shy away from operational work. As a growing company, we offer team members a very wide range of responsibilities and opportunities to influence.
Responsibilities
- Data driven research, aided by familiarity with current academic research
- Prototyping software
- Supporting operational workflow
- Communicate system behaviour and trade optimization algo to marketing, sales, clients, and the public
- Close collaboration with a cross functional team of developers on all parts of the product development lifecycle
Requirements
- Quantitative academic background with applications in finance
- Programming experience. Good knowledge of PowerShell, R or Python, or the willingness and ability to acquire
- Some practical experience (1-3 years) in financial products and instruments, for example, as a financial data analyst
- Hands-on experience analysing complex data and building statistical models
- CFA or progress towards CFA is desirable
- Languages: Fluency in English. Ability to communicate technical content to an audience with varied background. Spoken Cantonese and/or Mandarin nice to have