Quantitative Research Analyst

Description:

We are looking for a Quantitative Research Analyst to join our fast-paced and entrepreneurial Quantitative Equity Team! We are a high-performance team embedded in a top-performing quantitative equity fund that manages over $78+ billion USD in financial assets. We combine quantitative research with leading-edge technology to develop our unique algorithmic investment strategies. A culture of innovation, growth and success through collaboration and mutual respect has enabled us to deliver top tier performance for over two decades.

This is a role within the Market Implementation group responsible for the optimal execution of portfolios and desired trades, where we work on the advancement of our systematic frameworks for equity trading, order execution, market impact minimization, security financing, usage of equity and derivative instruments, market access, and counterparty partnerships, with the ultimate goal of delivering exceptional investment performance over the long term.

We are based in beautiful Vancouver, Canada; our team embraces the lifestyle and activities that life in Vancouver awards.

What You Will Do

This is an exciting role for an individual who is passionate about quantitative research and wants to apply a disciplined and scientific approach to market implementation. You will work with key decision makers on the team and have a broad range of responsibilities, including:
 

• Research and development – Conduct projects to enhance the systematic strategies and solutions for market implementation by applying a variety of skills and techniques in data analysis, mathematical modelling, hypothesis testing and experiment design.
• Monitoring and analysis – Monitor market implementation outcomes and conduct in-depth analysis to support performance evaluation, idea generation and decision making to enhance the systematic solutions.
• Research infrastructure – Identify, propose and collaborate on improvements to the research tools and workflow processes underlying the market implementation research and development efforts.
• Cross-team support – Collaborate with portfolio managers, traders, other research analysts and investment process/data analysts to ensure seamless integration of market implementation strategies and solutions.
   

With growth and development over time supported by the team leaders and peers, you will eventually bring forward ideas and contribute to the long-term strategic improvements to our market implementation capabilities and success.

What You Bring
 

• Domain expertise – You have either existing knowledge or an interest in gaining a deep understanding of equity market dynamics market microstructure, algorithmic trading, primer brokerage, trading counterparties, or portfolio management.
• Systematic and analytical mindset – Passionate about bringing systematization and a disciplined structure together with investment intuition to help formulate solutions to real-world problems. You have experience with producing rigorous quantitative research and thinking logically, critically and intuitively with a balance of fundamental intuition and empirical validation.
• Creativity and innovation – You have demonstrated an ability to contribute new ideas and challenge the status quo.
• Demonstrated learner – You love to learn new things and will have the ability to develop a sufficient understanding of the Quantitative Equity Team’s systematic investment process.
• Strong communication skills – You excel at communicating complex and technical concepts and proactively solicit and provide feedback in a team environment.
• Academic and work experience – At a minimum, an undergraduate degree in mathematics, applied statistics, physics, operations research, engineering, or a related field. Graduate studies or work experience (in quantitative research, equity trading, or portfolio management) considered valuable but not a requirement.