Tara Capital Partners - Equity Analyst - Quantitative Research

Company Overview:

Tara Capital Partners India Private Limited is an established diversified investment advisory & trading firm that provides innovative solutions to the Global Asset Management community. We serve the highly specialized and sophisticated needs of institutional clients. We are a SEBI registered Trading Member and are committed to the continuous addition of cutting edge trading strategies and systems to our existing suite. We have developed the best in class Trading platform which we use for back testing and developing new strategies.

Our goal is to incorporate modern tools and global best practices in our research and development process in an attempt to create a set of strategies that manage capital across markets and segments . We are looking for intelligent, motivated individuals who seek to work in a challenging, collegial environment to build institutional quality infrastructure and develop high alpha yielding strategies.

Responsibilities (include, but not limited to the following):

- Developing relationships between securities using Quant techniques and models

- Research and apply concepts from academic journals and financial literature and translate into fully automated trading strategies using a range of historical data, price, and volume inputs

- Researching portfolio construction and risk allocation techniques - Back-testing ideas using historical data

- Evaluating strategy performance, making improvements, and scaling up successful strategies

- Fundamental research of companies under coverage, using a disaggregated judgement approach. Ranking individual stocks on various qualitative and quantitative parameters to arrive at a comparative score for each stock under coverage.

- Coverage includes stocks in major developed as well as developing markets.

- Tracking news flows, maintaining business relationship models, drawing inferences from peer group events etc.

- Periodic discussion with portfolio managers to keep them updated with latest industry trends and stock updates.

- Keeping track of macroeconomic and industry related events and recommending trade ideas in response to that (M&A targets, Product cycle, FX related etc.)

Requirements:

- Keen interest in financial markets

- Eye for detail

- A degree from a top university in Finance/highly analytical field

- A strong background in data structures, algorithms, and problem solving

- Prior experience in Quantitative research or strategy development in the algorithmic set up (desirable)

- Quantitative aptitude and research oriented mindset

- Strong work ethic, self-motivated and hard working

- Hands on experience on developing alpha/strategy

Benefits

- Robust and efficient trading infrastructure for development of multi frequency trading strategies (low, medium and high frequency trading)

- Access to multiple markets and asset classes across the globe

- Competitive compensation and transparent business terms

- Guidance to grow, develop and improve on market dynamics and strategies

- Opportunity to work and learn from various Senior executives in the firm

- Exposure to cutting edge research in quantitative finance, statistics and portfolio management

- Friendly work culture with added focus on career development of an individual