Analyst/Associate - Index/Quants Research

Analyst/Associate

Responsibilities for this role would involve:

- Working on back-testing of trade ideas

- Building GUI for the trading desks

- Working on projects involving data mining, machine learning of tick data

- Developing tools / UI to help trading desk analyze markets

- Generating trade ideas for the desk

Degree with a quantitative discipline (BE, BTech, MS in Maths/Statistics/Financial Engineering) from Tier 1 institutes

- 2-3 year of prior exposure to Index/Quants Research and equities/multi asset indices analytics is important.

- Computer Skills: programming skills such as MatLab/R, Java/Java FX, KDB and/or C++.

- Must be able to flexibly respond to changes in priorities, be able to communicate results to a less-technical audience, work well in a team and be comfortable in a front office environment.

- Strong attention to detail

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills/Ability to express ideas via writing. Prior track record in research/ quants around trade ideas for wider distribution will be advantageous.

- Proactiveness / Initiative taking

- Teamwork