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发帖数: 187 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Quant 讨论区 】
发信人: eagle111 (鹰), 信区: Quant
标 题: Quantitative Developer Needed (buy side)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Aug 9 11:34:50 2013, 美东)
Our team is hiring for a junior to mid-senior role. I can refer if someone
is interested....
Location:
New York, NY
Company:
AllianceBernstein
URL:
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Post date:
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Position Description :
Company Description :
AllianceBernstein is a leading global investment management firm that offers
high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional
clients, individuals and private clients in major markets around the world.
AllianceBernstein employs more than 500 investment professionals with
expertise in growth equities, value equities, fixed income securities, blend
strategies, and alternative investments, and, through its subsidiaries and
joint ventures, operates in more than 20 countries. AllianceBernstein’s
research disciplines include fundamental research, quantitative research,
economic research and currency forecasting capabilities. Through its
integrated global platform, AllianceBernstein is well-positioned to tailor
investment solutions for its clients. AllianceBernstein also offers
independent research, portfolio strategy and brokerage-related services to
institutional investors.
IT Group Description :
Our team supports quantitative research, systems development, and portfolio
management processes for multi-asset portfolio groups at AB. Specifically,
we directly support the Dynamic Asset Allocation (DAA) group and the
Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) group. Both DAA and QIS are part of
AB’s alternative investment unit.
Job Description :
We are seeking a NY-based Quantitative Developer to join the Quantitative
Research Technology team in EIMT to provide technology solutions for the buy
-side multi-asset quantitative investment teams.
This assignment will focus on quantitative research and portfolio management
for DAA. The candidate will work closely with the investment team to
develop and support tools for market data downloads, data analysis,
quantitative model implementation, portfolio implementation and reporting.
DAA actively manages over $40 billion for global institutions, high net
worth individuals and retail mutual fund investors. The group’s macro and
quantitative research insights are used to develop innovative investment
products and drive investment decisions. We assess both short and long-term
outlooks for risk and return across all major markets, including Equities,
Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities. We use quantitative and
fundamental research techniques that are highly adaptive to the current
market environment. We combine these views with the specific needs of
clients to develop custom portfolio solutions.
Over the past couple of year, DAA has grown rapidly and continues to add new
sources of data, new security instruments, and new quantitative tools to
its investment and research process. There is tremendous need for support in
data acquisition, quantitative analysis, and portfolio tools development.
The key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Development of front end tools to aid portfolio optimization, monitoring and
trade building
Implementation of risk and return models
Developing systems for downloading market data from various sources and
managing the data repository
Simplification and automation of existing manual processes
Provide support for ad-hoc data and research requests from the investment
team
Provide support for overnight batch jobs
The candidate will have an opportunity to work alongside an established team
of quantitative analysts and portfolio managers to provide technology
solutions to aid them in managing multi-asset investment portfolios.
The candidate will have an opportunity to learn or leverage existing skills
in Matlab, POINT, Factset and Bloomberg. In addition the candidate will be
sponsored and reimbursed to obtain his/her CFA certification.
Job Qualifications :
•Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics,
Finance or Economics
•2+ years experience programming SQL queries and stored procedures (
Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase)
•2+ years experience programming in C#, C++, and/or Java
•Development experience in Matlab, R, or SAS (a strong plus)
•Advanced Excel programming experience (a strong plus)
•Relational database modeling skills (nice to have)
Skills :
•Strong analytical skills
•Must demonstrate good communication skills and be comfortable working
closely with senior business partners
•Candidate must be a self starter, a dependable partner, as well as a
team player
•Candidate must be willing to take full ownership of projects and show
strong client commitment
•A strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term
support
Special Knowledge :
•Experience with market data vendors - Barclays POINT, Factset,
Bloomberg, etc (nice to have)
•Experience working in the finance industry (nice to have)
AllianceBernstein is an equal opportunity employer | e******1
发帖数: 187 | 2 I have received quite some resumes. Will not take any more for now. Thanks
for your interest.
【在 e******1 的大作中提到】
: 【 以下文字转载自 Quant 讨论区 】
: 发信人: eagle111 (鹰), 信区: Quant
: 标 题: Quantitative Developer Needed (buy side)
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Aug 9 11:34:50 2013, 美东)
: Our team is hiring for a junior to mid-senior role. I can refer if someone
: is interested....
: Location:
: New York, NY
: Company:
: AllianceBernstein
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