Senior Quant Analyst - Public Credit
Location: London – hybrid 50%
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time – 35 hours
Purpose
The Public Credit (PC) Quant Senior Analyst is a new role within the PC team and aligns to the newly formed PC Quantitative pillar that supports the PC Trading & PM Pillar to meet the team’s mandate.
The role will be working closely with PC Quant manager to drive the technological enhancements to PC capabilities to enable more systematic (1) evaluation of investment opportunities / risks and (2) portfolio optimisation. This will require strong collaboration with the PC Portfolio Managers and Traders to ensure enhancements meet commercial needs of the front office. Moreover a critical part of the role is idea generation; bringing new analytical techniques to enhance the team’s origination and optimisation capabilities.
Who are Just?
We help people achieve a better later life. That’s our purpose and it’s the reason we exist. We are a fast-growing company helping customers enjoy the retirement they deserve. We do this through a variety of market leading, award-winning products and services, delivered by a diverse team of over 1,400 purpose-led colleagues who genuinely put the customer at the heart of everything we do.
This is a brilliant time to join our business. We are on an exciting growth journey to become the UK’s most loved retirement expert.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust quantitative analytical models which will act as the foundation to PC’s Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) framework
- Build and maintain an optimisation model that harnesses TAA framework in combination with Just’s in force portfolio and balance sheet metrics
- Perform comprehensive market analysis using statistical methods
- Integrate PC’s models into wider Just tech framework
- Present analytical findings to key stakeholders
- Staying abreast of quant developments and feeding into the business
- Engage in tasks across the investment function and work with other quants to knowledge share
What we’re looking for
- Excellent analytical capabilities with the ability to sense check numbers, perform quick “back of the envelope” calculations and build intuition over results
- Strong team player and presenter
- Good programming capabilities; preferably in Python and VBA [2+ years of demonstrable experience]
- Good understanding of statistical analysis and machine learning
- Good knowledge of fixed income products and associated financial market dynamics
- Several years’ experience in quantitative modelling and analysis, preferably with a focus in fixed income and more specifically Investment Grade credit
- Several years of demonstrable experience in Programming capabilities
- Experience in investment
- Proactive and entrepreneurial mindset
- Detailed orientated and diligent in work deliveries
- Strong focus on self-development
- Strong work ethic with a mentality to go above and beyond the status quo
Our behaviours
At Just you’ll have the opportunity to develop your career, whilst making a difference to the lives of those around you. You’ll be part of a company with a strong and distinctive culture - we’re ambitious, curious and collaborative – and every decision we make centres around being Just and delivering the best outcomes for our customers.
What’s in it for you
- A competitive salary, pension scheme and life assurance
- 25 days annual leave plus an additional day on us for your birthday
- Private medical cover and income protection, just in case
- A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme
- Opportunities to progress your career in-role and within the company
- Free access to the Headspace app, 24/7 employee assistance helpline and trained physical and mental health first aiders
- A variety of employee funded benefits available via our online benefits portal
- Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones
Explore our full range of benefits on our dedicated benefits page.
Belonging at Just
Valuing diversity of thought and fostering a sense of belonging is critical to our business success, driving innovation and balanced decision making. Our work on DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging) aims to deliver a brilliant employee experience underpinned by a sense of belonging, where our people feel proud to work at Just.
We remain committed to our publicly disclosed HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter and Race at Work Charter targets and support a wide range of employee network and events, championing issues including intergenerational working, social mobility and neurodiversity.
Application details
To apply, please submit your CV through our careers website. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted regarding next steps which may include an initial phone interview and in-person assessment.
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What We Do
We are Just, the retirement specialist. We are a FTSE-listed (ticker – JUST.L) specialist UK financial services group.
We have a clear purpose - we help people achieve a better later life. We believe that every decision we make and every action we take should help us to achieve our purpose.
Just differentiates itself from other financial services brands by placing social purpose at its heart with a commitment to help the many millions of people who are facing challenges in later life.
We are keen to speak to talented individuals who are interested in joining our team [www.workatjust.co.uk]
