Senior Quant Analyst - Stirling, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Stirling, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

At M&G our purpose is
to help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly.

As a business, we are continuing to take steps towards a sustainable future, delivering better long-term solutions for our customers and clientsand identifying new opportunities to make a positive impact for our environment and communities.
To help us achieve our vision we're looking for exceptional people who live our values of care and integrity and who can inspire others; embrace change; deliverresults and keep it simple.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role:
Senior Quant Analyst

We are seeking a Senior Quant Analyst with the right blend of data exploration, machine learning, stats & maths and financial markets knowledge to help build a workbench that enables creating bespoke solutions for our clients.

There will be significant focus on working in a cross-functional team of other technologists, experience designers, investment professionals and proposition experts within the Innovation Hub as well as wider business.

It is expected that the role holder willwork closely with our FinTech partners.

Key Responsibilities for this role:

Developing AI assisted portfolio construction capabilities to deliver personlised portfolio for retail investors.
Shape and design the portfolio composition workbench which allows investment professionals to develop and manage new solution components from concept to reality; iteratively.
Ability to juggle multiple deliverables from various stakeholders and being able to keep track of the endtoend pattern as well as driving the prioritisation which comes with stakeholder management.
Take abstract ideas and turn these into a tangible endtoend solution accompanied by a delivery plan and along the way creating buyin for the ideas you are putting on display.
Build and maintain a strong network with key stakeholders across the business.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Strong data exploration and machine learning skills, which also includes stats & maths knowledge, proficient in various programming languages to derive insights from large data sets (e.g., Python, R, Matlab, SQL).
Passion for constant learning with demonstrable experience in building solutions based on learning from emerging trends in the financial services
Understanding of financial markets and in particular econometrics concepts.
Ability to do deep dive analysis into a wide variety of asset classes and associated analytics (e.g., Equity, Fixed Income, Private Assets etc.).
Extensive experience managing stakeholders
Substantial experience (5+ years) within Financial Markets, specifically within asset management and wealth management.
Proactive selfstarter who can prioritise and manage their own workload with a solution focused mindset.

Work level:
Manager or Expert**
Recruiter: Phoebe Ewers

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent.

Regardless of gender, ethnicity,age, sexual orientation, nationality or disability we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.