Quant Analyst - Institutional Equity Investment - IIT/NIT/BITS

We are looking out to hire a candidate for one of our clients in Mumbai who is looking out to hire Quant Analyst in their globally integrated quantitative research team.

The team's research focus is to provide solutions to institutional equity investment problems by using the latest quantitative techniques of Finance and Economics.

The associate will be expected to maintain existing models, work with senior analysts creating new models for internal and external clients and generally supporting the team on various ad-hoc projects.

The candidate should be a pragmatic "self starter" who is prepared to learn about various Quant models, tools & techniques - someone who can work both independently if the analyst is traveling or as part of a team

It is essential that the candidate have strong programming skills in a statistical package such as SPlus, R, Matlab or other script based languages. Experience and knowledge in programming in Transact-SQL is also a key requirement.

Strong Excel modeling experience; a good command of spoken English as well as the ability to express oneself clearly and concisely in writing; knowledge of PowerPoint and Word and a strong understanding of Equity markets are all pre-requisites for this position.

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