Quantitative Research Analyst

Position Title: Quantitative Research Analyst

Job Duties: 

• Work within the firm’s Quantitative Research Group & under the direct supervision of portfolio managers and investment directors to perform sophisticated financial analytical modeling, conduct industry research, and assist in the preparation of written financial investment informational materials.
• Refine and maintain quantitative financial stock selection models, risk models, and optimization tools in support of the firm's overall portfolio investment management directions and strategies. 
• Create financial models to determine the valuation of researched businesses, industries and specific companies in particular sectors in order to track fundamental changes in industrial operations and overall economics. 
• Collaborate with other analysts in direct support of portfolio managers in the strategic decision-making process. 
• Perform both fundamental financial and quantitative research and take part in ongoing firm research projects. 
• Operate and maintain stock selection screens for global valuation analysis and research fundamental scan of active positions in global markets for significant events. 
• Work with large time-series databases and research alternative and/or unstructured quantitative data sets to perform risk model updating on both developed markets and emerging markets. 
• Provide quantitative support for client services and other marketing needs including index and portfolio disaggregation.
• Interface with IT to integrate existing systems with new pre-trade, trade, and post-trade analytics while furnishing programming support to automate analytical tasks.

Job Requirement:  

• Master's degree majoring in Financial Engineering, Financial Economics or Quantitative/Mathematical Finance and a minimum of 1+ year employment experience as Financial Analyst/Research Associate in established firm setting working on quantitative analysis, financial modeling, equity or investment research in international/emerging markets. 
• Must also be skilled in using: commercial equity pricing databases, multi-factor models & optimization tools, financial/statistical software, such as large time-series databases, financial statistics, linear regression; and programming languages such as VBA, SQL, R, Python and/or MATLAB.

Employer/Jobsite:

Causeway Capital Management LLC, Los Angeles, CA headquarters location

Salary: $ TBD