Senior Quant Risk Analyst: Asia Equity & Factor Modeling

Schonfeld; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Schonfeld is seeking an equity risk professional to join the risk group with a focus on investment research, analytics, and risk oversight for managers on a global discretionary long/short equity platform, with emphasis on Asia markets. The role involves developing analytics for risk, performance, and attribution, building models, and providing daily operational support to the team.

The candidate will contribute to research on manager skill, portfolio optimization, hedging strategies, and

Qualifications

• At least 10 years experience in related role (quantitative trading or risk).
• Strong mathematical and statistical modeling skills.
• Proficiency with Python or R for analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support discretionary risk research and portfolio construction questions for portfolio managers.
• Develop analytics related to risk, performance and process attribution of PMs and analysts.
• Liaise with technology and support teams to resolve daily production/operational issues and ensure data integrity/quality.
• Investigate and integrate new datasets used by proprietary models and risk infrastructure.

Skills

Quantitative finance

Statistical modeling

Python

R

Data analysis

Tools

Python

R

Job description

Schonfeld is seeking an equity risk professional to join the risk group with a focus on investment research, analytics, and risk oversight for managers on a global discretionary long/short equity platform, with emphasis on Asia markets. The role involves developing analytics for risk, performance, and attribution, building models, and providing daily operational support to the team.

The candidate will contribute to research on manager skill, portfolio optimization, hedging strategies, and