Acuity Knowledge Partners - Senior Associate - Multi Asset Strategy (1-3 yrs)

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Capital Markets Performance & Risk domain - Multi asset strategy solutions Investment Team

- Will work with the Multi asset portfolio analytics and will be working as quant programmer analyst and would be responsible for running the quantitative tools developed in R and Shiny (UI interface for R)

- Should be able to go over the available documentation for running the processes using quantitative tools.

- Additionally, quant programmer analyst must be able to interface and work with the Manager Research and Selection team to create the portfolio analytics, weights and reports.

- Primary programming languages are R, SQL, Microsoft Office (Excel). Systems used for running the tools are Factset, Database, Morningstar, and Bloomberg.

- Should have excellent knowledge of the US Financial markets and good understanding of different asset clasess

- Should be good in understanding various risk measures related to both Equity and Fixed Income products

- Should be able to develop and design new risk reports based on the client's expectations.

Should have excellent working knowledge of:

- MS Excel - Intermediate to Advanced level

- SQL - Intermediate level to Advanced level

- R and R shiny- Intermediate level (Debug existing codes, should develop risk related modeling strategy using R and create UI dashboard using R shiny)

Candidate Profile:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent professional qualification, in Finance (B.E, B.Tech/MBA/CFA/FRM preferably)

- At least 1 to 5 years working experience in the capital markets domain with asset managers or alternative investment firms.

Summary: We are looking for someone with R programming skills with CFA or FRM(attempt will do).