Junior Quant Analyst

Junior Quant Analyst

£45k Hybrid 2 days in the office

Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Junior Quant Analyst join our high profile client.

Our client is the world’s leading market portfolio risk analytics software businesses.

The primary purpose of the Quant Analyst is contributing to the development, validation, documentation, and ongoing maintenance of risk and return models.

To succeed in the role, you will be expected to build an in-depth knowledge of the wealth management industry and our solution, be a strong communicator and a self-starter focused on, ensuring the quality of support provided to clients is of high standards.

Day to Day you will:

• Support the development and enhancement of models including risk measures, volatility estimation, optimisation logic, and tolerance frameworks.
• Assist with model validation through data analysis, back‑testing, and scenario testing, and structured validation checks.
• Contribute to improvements in model performance, stability, and methodology.
• Ensure model logic is accurately translated into platform behaviour and system calculations.
• Support testing of new risk metrics, methodology updates, and platform enhancements, with a focus on strengthening automated testing and validation processes.
• Work with structured financial and market data to support modelling activities.
• Perform exploratory analysis to identify patterns, anomalies, or data quality issues.
• Support mapping, classification, data-integration tasks contributing to data engineering activities over time.

Junior Quant Analysts must have:

• MSc / PhD in Maths, Stats, Comp Sci or Physics
• Maths A Level
• Financial Products knowledge
• Python
• Some understanding of SQL

The role suits a fresh graduate or someone with sub 1 years experience. You will be mentored by experienced Quants and gain extensive knowledge or the risk and portfolio management space.

My client is based in Central London

Hybrid Working

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• Position
• Permanent
• Location
• London