Senior Quantitative Research
1 Finance · India
FULL TIME
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Own the firm’s patented behavioural frameworks, covering financial personality and the quality of financial decision-making, including their ongoing calibration and improvement as member data grows
- Direct the firm’s macroeconomic research, covering tracking of high frequency indicators and the macroeconomic views published from it
- Oversee product scoring and ranking models across mutual funds, health and term insurance, credit cards, home loans, NPS and crypto
- Lead the development of financial planning models, including asset allocation frameworks, portfolio optimisation methods and stress testing
- Direct the primary research behind 1 Finance Magazine and the firm’s periodic research reports (real estate, credit, liability planning, global economic outlook)
- Manage the research team, including hiring, performance reviews, research standards and publication quality
Skills
- 5-10 years of experience in financial research, quantitative modelling or a related field, with work that has informed real investment or advisory decisions
- Has built at least one research product end-to-end, covering framework design, data, modelling, output and maintenance
- Experience managing researchers across disciplines, including quantitative research, macroeconomics, data science and financial products
- Working proficiency in Generative AI, logical thinking and programming, with the ability to review and challenge the models of others
- A serious interest in behavioural finance; the firm’s research begins with how individuals behave with money
- Macroeconomic literacy, including the ability to connect macroeconomic developments to household-level financial decisions
- Clear writing, as the function’s research is published to members and to the advisory community