Quantitative Researcher, PM Engagement

Job Description
Our client, one of the world's leading hedge funds, are now seeking a talented Quantitative Researcher to join an established investment team that specializes in systematic equity strategies. The
Quantitative Researcher, PM Engagement,
is responsible for working with equity PMs on their portfolio construction and investment process, helping them understand their risk taking and improve their profitability and scalability. The researcher will be expected to contribute to the development of quantitative models for the analysis of portfolio risk & performance for strategies, including alternative equity strategies. The researcher will be responsible for developing models, conducting analysis, and sharing insights on drivers of P&L, best practices, and portfolio construction concepts with portfolio managers and business management.
The successful candidate should be passionate about equity investing with experience in Long/Short or alternative equity strategies, and possess advanced quantitative abilities, strong analytical skills, and be a strong communicator able to explain quantitative concepts and recommendations to other investment professionals. They will demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and an ability generate and execute creative ideas as the team builds analytics and tools to support and grow the business.
Responsibilities:
Improving profitability and scalability of the equities business by working directly with PMs to drive performance and scale; supporting tailored analysis with quantitative research and a deep understanding of the investment process.
Research:
Develop models for analysis of investment process, portfolio construction, risk and return attribution for strategies
Understand team investment processes and how to capture and analyze relevant data
Develop analysis supported by data for individual teams and/ or using data across the business to provide analysis on best practices, insights, and areas to improve risk-adjusted returns
Propose and substantiate new research ideas that can be delivered to Portfolio Managers/ Business
Respond to analytical questions from portfolio managers and senior management related to risk, portfolio construction, investment process
Relationships and Advising
: Managing relationships with Portfolio Managers and work with them to grow and improve profitability of their business. Functioning as a representative of equity risk, interface with PMs. Ensure that views / themes are accurately represented within portfolios
Project Ownership
: Collaborate with other Quantitative Researchers across Risk & Development, Data, Product and Engineering teams on accessing data sets and developing tools that improve Portfolio Managers or Business efficiency, profitability, and understanding of portfolio/ risks
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience
working on a team with experience understanding risk/ portfolio construction and analytics related to equity Long/ Short or other alternative equity strategies, including at least 2 years of direct interaction with risk takers or in a risk taking role
Strong
Python
skills – including prior experience with time series analysis, managing data, and contributing to internal analysis libraries in Python
Experience with
SQL
for managing and accessing data
Proficiency with software development process and tools such as
GitHub
Excellent
communication/ presentation skills
, confidence, and ability to influence, coach, educate fundamental PMs
Superior quantitative skills demonstrated through an advanced degree (PhD or Masters) in sciences/ math/ quantitative discipline and/ or practical experience applying quantitative finance theory
Desire to work with portfolio teams focused on equity strategies