Quantitative Analyst

  • London

NatWest Group

Summary

 

Join us as a Quantitative Analyst

 

  • Become part of a highly collaborative team, playing a key role in delivering best-in-class investment outcomes for our clients
  • Your work will be vital in helping us develop potential investable products, which will benefit our ultra-high net worth clients
  • You’ll have the chance to conduct independent research into new potential quantitative models, building on your existing skill sets

 

What you’ll do

 

As a Quantitative Analyst within the Asset Allocation Team, you’ll use your financial and quantitative expertise to maintain existing and build new models to continually enhance our investment decision-making capabilities.

 

You’ll also be:

 

  • Producing research and trading ideas for tactical asset allocation and researching other ways of enhancing portfolio returns
  • Enhancing expected returns forecasts, suggesting or modifying assets for inclusion and backtesting and calculating risk contributions of changes to the current strategic asset allocation
  • Developing and maintaining quantitative tools that support portfolio construction and investment decision-making

 

The skills you’ll need

 

We’re looking for someone with strong financial and macroeconomic knowledge, ideally with experience in multi-asset research and/or portfolio construction. Proficiency in Python for data analysis and quantitative modelling is also essential.

 

You’ll also need:

  • Experience or working knowledge of capital market assumption modelling
  • Practical experience with quantitative Python libraries (e.g pandas, NumPy, statsmodels, SciPy and scikit-learn)
  • A solid understanding of private banking across wealth segments with awareness of relevant regulatory frameworks