Quant Strategist - Equity & Derivatives

Please note - this is a permanent work-from-home opportunity (anywhere in India) while working from Mumbai office is optional.

Job description

- Building, back-testing and making live advanced and highly robust stock quant / rule-based strategies that generate risk-adjusted investment returns far above industry benchmarks

- Working with a cutting edge team of quant strategists focused on developing multiple strategies

- Responsible for achieving Alpha generation targets

Desired Skills

- Proven ability in creating advanced and successful quant / rule-based strategies from scratch. Current experience of working on live successful quant strategies in buy-side or sell-side firms.

- Strong domain knowledge in equity and equity derivative markets (quant / technical)

- Strong proven skill, aptitude and speed in grasping and cracking complex financial problems in Excel/R/Python, etc.

- Strong Communication Skills

Academic background

- Engineering + MBA (Finance) from Tier 1 institutes

Or

- MS in Financial Engineering/ CQF/ Masters in Mathematics / statistics / economics.

- Executive/Full-time courses from reputed international or domestic or online institutions on Computational Finance / Financial Modelling would be a plus.

- Stellar Academic record a must.

Work experience

5 - 10 Years in stock markets, including at least 3 years in developing Quant / Rule-Based Strategies.