Senior Quantitative Research

1 Finance; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

1 Finance seeks a senior research leader to own behavioural frameworks for financial decisions and calibrate models as data grows. You will direct macroeconomic research and oversee scoring models across funds and financial products, while leading the publication of firm reports.

You will manage a research team, guide framing, validation, and publication quality, and contribute to strategic investment insights with a strong emphasis on behavioural finance.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in financial research or quantitative modelling that informs investment/advisory decisions.
• Built at least one end-to-end research product (framework design to maintenance).
• Experience managing researchers across disciplines (quant, macro, data science, financial products).
• Proficiency in Generative AI, logical thinking and programming; ability to review others’ models.

Responsibilities

• Own the firm’s behavioural frameworks for financial decision-making and calibrate as data grows.
• Direct macroeconomic research including high-frequency indicators and published macro views.
• Oversee product scoring/ranking models across mutual funds, insurance, cards, loans, NPS and crypto.
• Lead development of financial planning models: asset allocation, portfolio optimization, stress testing.
• Direct primary research for 1 Finance Magazine and firm reports (real estate, liability planning, global outlook).
• Manage the research team, including hiring, reviews, standards, and publication quality.

Skills

Financial research

Quantitative modelling

Research product development

Team leadership

Generative AI

Macroeconomics literacy

Technical writing

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

• Own the firm’s patented behavioural frameworks, covering financial personality and the quality of financial decision-making, including their ongoing calibration and improvement as member data grows
• Direct the firm’s macroeconomic research, covering tracking of high frequency indicators and the macroeconomic views published from it
• Oversee product scoring and ranking models across mutual funds, health and term insurance, credit cards, home loans, NPS and crypto
• Lead the development of financial planning models, including asset allocation frameworks, portfolio optimisation methods and stress testing
• Direct the primary research behind 1 Finance Magazine and the firm’s periodic research reports (real estate, credit, liability planning, global economic outlook)
• Manage the research team, including hiring, performance reviews, research standards and publication quality

Skills

• 5-10 years of experience in financial research, quantitative modelling or a related field, with work that has informed real investment or advisory decisions
• Has built at least one research product end-to-end, covering framework design, data, modelling, output and maintenance
• Experience managing researchers across disciplines, including quantitative research, macroeconomics, data science and financial products
• Working proficiency in Generative AI, logical thinking and programming, with the ability to review and challenge the models of others
• A serious interest in behavioural finance; the firm’s research begins with how individuals behave with money
• Macroeconomic literacy, including the ability to connect macroeconomic developments to household-level financial decisions
• Clear writing, as the function’s research is published to members and to the advisory community