Quant and Trading Analyst

As one of the world’s leading asset managers, Invesco is dedicated to helping investors worldwide achieve their financial objectives. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world.

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Job Description

Duties:

• Maintain and develop Invesco’s International equity team’s quantitative resources to support efficient/effective investment process.
• Execute and maintain the team’s trade entry process.
• Perform quantitative analysis to augment the team’s fundamental, bottom-up investment research process, including screening equity universe for new investment opportunities, identifying and analyzing market data anomalies/trends likely to impact the portfolios, modeling and analyzing the profitability of portfolio holdings, and conducting bespoke analysis as requested by the team.
• Maintain and enhance the team’s existing quantitative tools, processes, data, and infrastructure, including FactSet and Bloomberg terminal applications and APIs, Excel and Python-based tools, models, reports, and alerts.
• Develop new quantitative capabilities that are complimentary to the team’s fundamental investment process and EQV investment philosophy.
• Partner with internal Technology teams on projects that improve the efficiency and efficacy of the team’s investment process, including automating investing/research workflows, curating, and onboarding new investment data sources, collaborating on firm-wide investment research/technology initiatives, etc.
• Execute ad-hoc requests to help facilitate team dialogue.
• Manage the team’s trading process including single security and program order entry and portfolio implementation.
• Maintain and enhance the team’s existing trading infrastructure including order management/modeling systems and ancillary processes to monitor portfolio exposures, rebalancing rules, and trading alerts.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Investments and other internal teams involved in the order entry process.

Requirements:

• Must have a Master’s degree in Finance, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, or related quantitative field.
• Must have completed at least Level 1 towards CFA designation
• Must have 3 years of experience in Quantitative Analysis, Researcher or Trader positions performing/utilizing the following:
  • Fluency in Excel VBA, Python and SQL
  • Principles of business, finance, accounting, and security analysis
  • Trading experience knowledge of trade entry, settlements, compliance, market dynamics, trading strategies, and risk management
  • Utilizing quantitative tools for data analysis and modelling.
  • Analytical skills to interpret financial data and derive actionable insights.
  • Working with FactSet, Bloomberg and other similar market data providers.
  • Portfolio Management, portfolio construction, portfolio optimization, Factor construction, and Performance attribution.
  • Automating trading processes and strategies.
  • Leveraging technology to enhance efficiency and reduce manual intervention
  • Quantitative analysis to optimize and refine trading approaches.
  • Writing financial reports.

• Position may be eligible to work hybrid/remotely but is based out of and reports to Invesco offices in Austin, TX.  Must be available to travel to Austin, TX regularly for meetings and reviews with manager and project teams within 24-hours’ notice.   

Apply online or email resume to: Niamh McNamee, Global Mobility Specialist, [email protected]

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Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

YesWorkplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office. 

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

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