Equity Sector Data Analyst, London

Company Insight:

This prestigious global investment management firm is expanding its London office, seeking intellectually curious individuals to drive innovation in equities strategies. Leveraging proprietary cutting-edge technology and rigorous scientific research, the company excels in trading, technology, and operations, and is now looking to expand their discretionary organisation. Data is not a support function here but drives the firm’s approach, with data analysts scientists having direct and tangible communication with PMs and traders. With a true emphasis on global collaboration, their investment, technology, and operations teams are aligned functionally around the world.

Your Role:

• Develop insights and generate ideas for the equity fundamental research team using data-driven approaches.
• Collaborate across the firm to exchange results, feedback, and custom tools effectively.
• Conduct tasks such as KPI estimation and projection for companies or sectors, hypothesis testing through data analysis, building screening tools, and assessing new and existing datasets for relevance and quality.
• Gain a deep understanding of the fundamental models used by analysts and create data-driven variables to enhance these models.
• Assess the value and relevance of new datasets for specific sectors or stocks.
• Execute data-driven studies to validate or refute hypotheses for specific research ideas.

Experience/Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field
• Strong programming skills, proficiency in SQL and Python required
• Experience in analysing complex data sets and research experience with alternative data is a plus
• Industry experience in fundamental analysis preferred
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a buy-side firm
• Experience with healthcare or energy data sectors preferred

Pre-Application:

• Please do not apply if you are looking for a contract or remote work
• You must be eligible to live and work in the UK, without requiring sponsorship
• Please ensure you meet the required experience section prior to applying
• Allow 1-5 working days for a response to any job enquiry

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