Associate Quant Strategist

TD; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial services firm is seeking an Associate, Quant Strategist in London. This role involves building advanced tools for trading decisions and performing quantitative analysis. Candidates should have a graduate degree in a relevant field, proficiency in Python, and 2-3 years of experience in quantitative analysis or data science. The firm values a strong team player who can communicate effectively and work under pressure. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to impactful financial strategies.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years’ work experience in quantitative analysis.
• Strong programming fundamentals and statistics knowledge.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Build tools for strategists and traders.
• Contribute to research publications based on analytics.
• Develop and maintain codebase as required.
• Lead complex data analysis across various data sources.
• Automate manual strategy workflows.
• Provide market insight by liaising with clients.

Skills

Proficiency in Python

Experience with VBA

Strong analytical skills

Machine learning experience

Communication skills

Team player

Education

Graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics

Tools

Excel

Tableau

Bloomberg

Macrobond

Plotly

Job description

Job Title

Associate, Quant Strategist

Location

London, United Kingdom

Job Level

L09 / Associate

Business/Product Group

Global Strategy

Business Overview

Part of Global Research, the Global Strategy team is a FICC‑focused markets research group that analyzes global macroeconomic and market trends across rates, foreign exchange, commodities and emerging markets, delivering actionable investment insight to clients and investors. The team applies economic, quantitative and statistical frameworks to generate trade ideas, publish strategy research and engage directly with clients. Working closely with Sales and Trading, Global Strategy supports front‑office decision‑making across interest‑rate‑, FX‑ and commodity‑linked securities.

Team Overview

Research Engagement and Quantitative Innovation is a front‑office strategy and product function within Global Strategy, responsible for setting direction and driving commercialization of the low‑touch/electronic strategy. The team originates and scales quantitative strategy products, defines how strategy is distributed to clients, and leads the build‑out of analytics and platforms that directly support revenue generation and client franchise growth.

Position Summary

The Research Engagement and Quantitative Innovation team is seeking a non‑publishing Quantitative Researcher / Strategist to provide direct support to several front office quantitative financial market and client analytics projects.

Responsibilities

• Build world‑class tools that assist strategists and traders in making trading decisions. Design, implement, and support quantitative models across the global strategy team, including asset valuation models, macroeconomic forecasts, and trading signals.
• Contribute to research publications based on insights derived from analytics.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of the codebase as required.
• Perform literature research in quantitative techniques, big data trends and broader market trends to ensure models and techniques dovetail with current market standards.
• Partner with Quant Innovation leadership, Sales, Trading, Technology and key stakeholders to shape data‑driven strategy solutions, translating business needs into scalable analytics and client‑ready insights.
• Use machine learning to combine research, trade and financial model data to extract trade opportunities to communicate to sales.
• Further develop advanced Python/SQL ETL’s and data ingested through chosen vendors API to improve computation capabilities within the current SQL Database and produce a seamless output onto Tableau.
• Design, build and automate advanced dashboards, analytics and reporting solutions (e.g. Plotly/Tableau), owning data analysis, visualization standards and end‑to‑end delivery in collaboration with IT and BI teams.
• Lead complex data analysis across multiple internal and external data sources, identifying patterns, data quality issues and opportunities to improve models, structures and governance aligned to the firm’s single source of truth.
• Drive automation of manual strategy workflows and deploy analytics, models and outputs into cloud environments to increase productivity and accelerate insight delivery.
• Identify underlying data patterns, structures and issues through comprehensive data analysis.
• Liaise with internal sales and trading teams and external clients, including institutional investors, government organization and corporations, to provide market insight.

Skills Required

• Proficiency in Python and strong experience with VBA, Excel and spreadsheet‑based analysis.
• Strong programming fundamentals (OOP and basic design patterns), statistics, machine learning (classical).
• Problem‑solving, analytical and critical thinking skills plus excellent communication skills.
• Team player, ready to make an impact to improve the efficiency of the team.
• Machine learning experience is required with a focus on data analysis and visualization techniques.
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics.
• Some experience with Bloomberg, Macrobond, Plotly and/or Tableau preferred.
• Excellent mathematical, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment under strict deadlines.
• 2‑3 years’ work experience in quantitative analysis, focusing on coding, data analysis, machine learning, back testing and/or econometrics.
• Prior buy or sell‑side experience preferred.

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Next Steps

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