Senior Quantitative Research

ResponsibilitiesOwn 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 growsDirect the firm’s macroeconomic research, covering tracking of high frequency indicators and the macroeconomic views published from itOversee product scoring and ranking models across mutual funds, health and term insurance, credit cards, home loans, NPS and cryptoLead the development of financial planning models, including asset allocation frameworks, portfolio optimisation methods and stress testingDirect 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 qualitySkills 5-10 years of experience in financial research, quantitative modelling or a related field, with work that has informed real investment or advisory decisionsHas built at least one research product end-to-end, covering framework design, data, modelling, output and maintenanceExperience managing researchers across disciplines, including quantitative research, macroeconomics, data science and financial productsWorking proficiency in Generative AI, logical thinking and programming, with the ability to review and challenge the models of othersA serious interest in behavioural finance; the firm’s research begins with how individuals behave with moneyMacroeconomic literacy, including the ability to connect macroeconomic developments to household-level financial decisionsClear writing, as the function’s research is published to members and to the advisory community