Quantile Analytics - Quantitative Researcher

Quantitative Researcher

We are looking for a Quantitative Analyst who will perform quantitative financial research and help develop quantitative trading strategies in global equity markets. The individual will work closely with our clients research and development personnel in the US to identify and quantify research ideas from a variety of academic and non-academic sources and guide the development of a quantitative research and back testing platform by local technology colleagues.

The role offers a tremendous opportunity to :

- Work closely with and learn from experienced and successful investment professionals who are working at the cutting edge of investments and finance and;

- Experience significant professional growth and learning from a newly set up business

Job description :

- Enable efficient investment decision making by developing and maintaining a research repository of relevant financial articles on a historical as well as on-going basis. The specific responsibilities include:

- Collect research papers/articles from a variety of journals, research websites, blogs, etc that describe specific financial market anomalies and can lead to the design of quantitative trading strategies

- Catalog, index and classify articles and create an extensive database of research articles

- Create concise summaries for the relevant set of articles in the database

- Organize articles into specific categories/themes to create a domain-specific body of research

- Update database continuously by monitoring changes in the underlying sources of information

- Develop domain expertise in a broad set of topics in quantitative trading through perusal of scholarly articles, books, quantitative trading blogs and other information sources

- Utilize the client's cloud computing research environment to replicate specific financial research papers and present performance results according to a standardized research template

- Provide client researchers with a short list of validated high quality trading ideas.

Qualification :

- Ph.D / Master degree in Finance with Bachelor in Engineering with good knowledge in programming in Python or Java with C/C++. Exposure to R software will be added advantage.

Attributes of a qualifying candidate are :

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to formalize research approaches and methodologies to analyze fundamental and statistical data that drives equity performance.

- Excellent time and project management skills and the ability multi-task between several timeline-based projects

- Excellent written and oral skills in English with the ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts in a lucid and concise manner

- Ability to operate comfortably in an unstructured start-up environment with partial information and ambiguity

- Comfortable working in a team setting and collaborating with local and remote colleagues and mentors

Company Profile :

Quantile Analytics Pvt. Ltd.

Quantile Analytics Pvt Ltd has been set up in April 2015 at Indore, to provide quantitative, analytical and consulting services for the benefit of alternative investment managers based in the US. Its key area of focus is to use quantitative techniques for improved investment research, analytical model development, trade execution strategies and risk management. Quantile Analytics has been set up by Dr. D.T. Manwani, PhD (Finance) who has over forty years of corporate and academic experience, of which the last ten years have focused on academics and research in finance related topics. The career profile of Dr. D.T. Manwani can be found at : http://bit.ly/1PXXaSt Quantile Analytics has partnered with Ergoteles Capital to provide the aforesaid Services. Ergoteles Capital is a registered investment advisory firm located in New York, United States. The firm manages assets using quantitative equity strategies for one of the largest hedge fund platforms globally.