Quantitative Research

**Research & Development**:
Are you ready to lead the way in creating cutting-edge models and driving thought leadership in the finance industry?

**Analytics**:
Shape our industry with powerful analytics

**Do you want to help modernize risk and portfolio management for investors?**

Whether you’re working with hedge funds, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds or the companies that manage your pension plans, the problems you help solve in Analytics will have a real impact, and your ideas will be embedded in investment ecosystems around the globe.

**Your Team Responsibilities**:
**Your Key Responsibilities**:

- Support implementation of new features for MSCI’s Risk and Portfolio optimization solutions
- Pricing and risk models for exotic derivatives, fixed income asset classes, credit derivatives and securitized products, portfolio optimization
- Portfolio level risk analysis, VaR methodology
- Automation framework, built with state-of-the-art technologies, for validation of the models
- Develop and extend independent validation tools which are used to ensure accuracy for all numbers produced by our analytics engines
- Analyze and extend the analytics regression tests to ensure the complete and efficient coverage for all analytics engine statistics and asset types
- Work with the Research and Analytics Development teams to evaluate manual and regression test differences, check requirements and extend test case coverage
- Ensure that all daily test processes are completed successfully and resolve problems with the assistance of the research and development teams

**Your skills and experience that will help you excel**:

- Bachelor's or master's degree with focus in finance, quantitative finance, financial mathematics, mathematics, physics, statistics, operations research, or another quantitative field is a plus
- 3-5 years of experience (finance field or related)
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Strong motivation to learn about financial markets
- Strong technical skills, experiences in automated testing is a plus
- Strong quantitative, programming and problem-solving skills
- Experiences in analytics field, mathematical optimization, securitized product, risk management or derivatives pricing is a plus
- Strong written and oral proficiency in English
- Interest working in an environment that combines finance and technology
- Strong sense of ownership with projects
- Willing to work in a global team environment
- Relevant work experience in model validation is a plus
- Experience with a programming language (e.g. Matlab, Python, R, C++, C#)

**About MSCI**:
**What we offer you**
- Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.
- Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.
- A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.
- A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.
- Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.
- We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose - to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

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