Quants/performance Analyst

1 week ago


Cape Town, South Africa Aquarius Recruitment Full time

Our client is an established and reputable Asset Management company based in Cape Town who has a current need for a junior Quants Analyst - this role could suit a young BEE graduate who has a quants degree (Math, Stats, Actuarial Science, etc,.)

**Job Purpose**:
The purpose of this role is to provide quantitative analysis support to the Investment and Business Development teams with accurate performance and risk and attribution calculations.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Full involvement in the performance analytics process
- Responsible for daily and monthly performance procedure
- Continuously evaluating and enhancing performance function
- Ad hoc quantitative / risk-return queries
- Ex-post risk analysis
- Compiling and evaluating performance data for business pitches
- Global Investment Performance Standards Reporting

**Requirements**:

- This role could suit a Quants graduate who has a real interest in the financial markets or someone with experience in a performance role within an asset management environment
- Understanding of performance and attribution methodologies and portfolio risk statistics
- An understanding and interest in investment strategies, financial instruments and financial markets
- Financial mathematics or statistical orientation
- BBusSci/ BCom / BSc (Actuarial or Quantitative Management or Maths or Statistics)

**Competencies**:

- Teamplayer
- Willingness to learn
- Strong attention to detail
- Pride in accuracy
- Ability to multitask and prioritise
- Deadline orientation

**Skills**:

- Excel essential
- Programming (Visual Basic, Python, etc) an advantage
- Statpro (Performance & Attribution, Interactive) an advantage
- Bloomberg / Inet an advantage
- Quintessence by F(x) an advantage



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