Quantitative Specialist - Investment Management

The Role: Quantitative Specialist, Investment Management

Grade: (relevant for internal applicants only) 08/09

The Location: Islamabad, PK

The Team: The Investment Management Quantitative Specialist will be expected to identify, analyze, and propose solutions specific to the technical and quantitative capabilities offered by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

The Impact:  Each Specialist develops a broad awareness of S&P Global Market Intelligence enterprise content delivery/data management capabilities and becomes a knowledge expert in the ClariFI Platform and other workflow tools (i.e. Alteryx, Tableau, APIs) offered through Market Intelligence in addition to the associated technology used to support client solutions. Candidates who have a strong technical background in computer/software engineering, data science, or other numerate fields who lack a formal Finance background but have a proven interest and ability to learn quickly are encouraged to apply

What’s in it for you:

• Design and deliver technical solutions to internal and external clients. 

• Act as a regional Investment Management market feedback consolidation source for regional product, content, and delivery enhancements. Work closely with Product Management to provide feedback and rank enhancement requests.

• Provide product training to clients, and document technical client interactions in Salesforce to share with the broader organization.

• Learn and understand new datasets as they are deployed through the Xpressfeed loader, ClariFI, or other mechanism, and communicate the advantages of these datasets effectively to clients and prospects.

Responsibilities:

• The Investment Management Quantitative Specialist is a client-facing representative for S&P Global Market Intelligence. Their responsibilities include:

• Act as a product specialist for the ClariFI Platform by understanding the application of ClariFI for complex buy side workflows, conducting training, troubleshooting problems, answering product questions, and providing complex daily product support to a client base of equity research analysts, portfolio managers, data scientists and risk management professionals.

• Advise users on financial modeling, numerical analysis, and process efficiencies.

• Assist the trial process with a thorough understanding of the client’s workflow, and how Market Intelligence’s content; feed and platform solutions (including ClariFI and various enterprise delivery platforms) may enhance that workflow.

• Conduct product demos as needed and help to design the best solution to fit a prospect’s or client’s needs.

• Develop a complete understanding of competitors’ products and be able to articulate Market Intelligence’s relative capabilities.

• Facilitate a positive experience for the client by bringing together the appropriate resources within Market Intelligence and the client’s organization.

• Possess a firm understanding of the diagnostic commercial process

What we’re looking for:

Backgrounds vary among Investment Management Quantitative Consultants, but technical skills is key. We are looking for someone who has programming skills and has worked on machine learning or data science projects  More junior candidates are also considered who are able to learn quickly and work independently within a team framework.

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Science or Engineering.

• Mastery of various scripting languages (Python, R, SQL, etc)

• Good understanding of the equity investment process (with a focus on quantitative security analysis)

• Excellent communication, training and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cloud certifications AWS, Azure etc

• Data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, Qlik Sense, Alteryx

• Knowledge of Compustat or Capital IQ products (data, software, or feeds) is a plus.

• A good understanding of fundamental data is a plus

About S&P Global Market Intelligence:

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit