Senior Quantitative Analyst

The Area:

Morningstar Indexes Team leverages its expertise in equity research, manager research, asset allocation, and portfolio construction to create innovative investment solutions. We use Morningstar's intellectual property to create indexes that empower investors to achieve their goals at every stage of the investment process - market monitoring, benchmarking, and asset allocation. Morningstar Indexes offers a broad suite of global equity, bond, commodity and asset allocation indexes.

The Role:

As a part of the New Product Development Team, you will participate in the full development cycle including ideation, design, development, presentations to global research team and clients, leading up to implementation. A fast-growing dynamic set-up offers opportunity to handle multiple projects, work with diverse and skilled team members and provide opportunities to fast track your career development. You will have a good grasp of investment concepts, possess strong analytical skills, good communication skills and will be technically proficient with at least one programming language (Python, R or MATLAB) in addition to SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Build innovative index solutions through rigorous investment research, and own it through full product development lifecycle from ideation, design, development, and validation, leading up to launch
• Collaborate effectively with the broader Morningstar research organization including equity, quantitative, manager or sustainability research teams, and product management to develop novel thematic and smart beta indexes that leverage Morningstar IP
• Promote integration of team throughput and operational processes with other index teams to facilitate growth of our product and methodology suite
• Help develop new tools and capabilities to perform portfolio construction or analytics independently, including the use of statistical and machine learning techniques
• Publish white papers, factsheets, client presentations, and other collateral to support go-to-market plans

Requirements:

• At least 3 years of experience in a quantitative or financial domain such as equity research, credit research, investment management, risk management, or analytics
• Bachelor's degree in quantitative, financial discipline, or engineering, MBA/Masters degree is helpful
• CFA charter or candidature (at least passed Level II) is desirable
• Knowledge of investment concepts, modern portfolio theory, and portfolio construction processes
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Matlab, R or C#)
• Excellent documentation habits, oral and written communication and presentation skills including ability to distil complex ideas into simple explanations