Quantitative Specialist

Job Description:

Position Description:

Quantitative Research Services is a part of the Fidelity Asset Management Quant Research & Investments (QRI) organization and provides analytic solutions and data management services to quant researchers, portfolio managers and senior leadership roles across Asset Management. This specialized team leads development efforts to expand and enhance the technical infrastructure and reporting capabilities associated with multi-factor model risk forecasting, quantitative alpha research, big data analytics, and performance attribution. Together with their partners in the technology and research divisions, members of this organization work as an integral part of small project teams to deliver innovative data visualization and analytic tools capable of illustrating current and time series investment themes, portfolio exposures, and factors driving fund performance.

The Expertise You Have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in finance, math, accounting, engineering, or computer science. Master’s Degree and/or CFA Charter are strongly desired.
• 2-7 years of experience in an investment data analytics capacity.
• Demonstrated history as a top performer working in a data analysis role with great technical skills.

The Value You Deliver:

• Develop deep understanding across all aspects of alpha research including model construction, factor definitions, factor calculations, and translating output statistics into meaningful information
• Oversee daily/weekly/monthly production reporting cycles across the analytic environments. Ensure all required input data is available, processes run successfully, statistical output is accurate, and reports are generated properly.
• Respond to ad-hoc data analysis requests in support of projects performed by Quant Analysts
• Contribute to the continued development and incorporation of non-traditional and/or unstructured data as well as data science applications to enhance the research and investment process.

The Skills You Bring:

• Advanced level SQL and ability to traverse a wide array diverse content
• Experience programming in Python or R with the ability to develop customized quantitative tools.
• Highly analytical with the ability to quickly comprehend large data sets in order to develop new processes, perform calculations, identify anomalies, and/or produce new reporting capabilities.
• Familiarity with quantitative analytics like fund and index performance measurement and knowledge of Security Reference data across Asset Classes (Equity, Fixed Income) including derivative instruments
• Strong hands-on project leadership skills with the drive to complete complex projects as a part of small teams within an extremely fast paced environment. Capability to liaise with investment professionals to gather requirements and manage deliverables of technical development teams.
• Highly proactive and self-motivated with the ability to meet objectives under minimal supervision.
• Knowledge of Security Reference data across Asset Classes (Equity, Fixed Income) including derivative instruments
• Experience with FactSet and Bloomberg is a plus
• Experience with Quant Platform capabilities like back-testing, computing core statistical measures and familiarity of Cloud Technologies for running these capabilities at scale is a plus

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Company Overview

At Fidelity Investments, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. As a privately held company with a rich 75-year history, our mission has remained the same since our founding: to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.

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At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning and growth so you can build the career you’ve always imagined. We welcome associates from different backgrounds and with different perspectives to help us innovate and make a difference for our customers and our communities.

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

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This is not a requirement to be vaccinated. It is a requirement to report vaccination status and, if vaccinated, provide proof.