Quantitative Investment Analyst

6 hours ago


Pretoria, South Africa Six Sense Consulting Full time

**Qualification and experience**:
**Education**:

- A relevant bachelors degree in Financial Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics, Actuarial Science,
- Mathematics or Finance is required.
- A relevant post-Graduate qualification or further study towards an industry qualification e.g., CFA, CIPM or FRM will be advantageous.

**Experience**:

- 3 to 6 years experience in investment performance and risk, investment quantitative or another investment related field.
- Experience in institutional investing
- Experience in portfolio monitoring and reporting
- Exposure to financial modelling and database maintenance
- Programming proficiency in SQL, proficiency in R, Python and VBA advantageous
- User experience of at least one of the following systems: Bloomberg, Statpro, Fitch solutions,
- MSCI Barra; HiPort and other investment related systems and software.
- Exposure to Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS), and GIPS-compliant performance
- calculation methodologies.
- Exposure to investment accounting processes and/or compliance.

**Knowledge**:

- Demonstrate a good understanding of the underlying accounting data utilized in performance calculations.
- Institutional investing, investment analysis and portfolio monitoring.
- Knowledge of investment risk and performance metrics and analytics.
- Ability to analyze financial information.
- Understanding of the Government Employee Pension Fund and the pension fund industry in general.
- Understanding of the investment management industry.

**Skills**:

- Advanced excel skills
- Strong analytical and numerical skills.
- Financial modelling skills.
- Ability to interpret investment performance
- Business report writing skills.
- Computer proficiency (specialized computer software).
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Strong organization, project and time management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.



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