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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH CONSULTANT
Description
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. More information about Thomson Reuters and its financial performance can be found on www.ThomsonReuters.com.
StarMine, a Thomson Reuters company, is a global leader in research analytics and is recognized as the Gold Standard in performance measurement (and investment process improvement). StarMine products help investment managers at more than 550 of the top asset management firms around the world more efficiently research stocks, monitor their holdings, and generate investment ideas providing powerful analytics via data feeds and web-based products. We are best known for "analyzing the analysts," predicting earnings surprises, and intelligently filtering sell-side research. More recent offerings provide earnings quality scores on all stocks and overlay intelligent analysis on corporate financial statements.
We are adding a Quantitative Research Consultant to StarMine's San Francisco office. In this highly visible position, you will represent Thomson Reuters/StarMine as you explain and promote our quantitative models to the best money managers in the world, including hedge fund managers, proprietary traders, and other top institutional investors. This is a collaborative and influential role in which you will demonstrate your superb quantitative aptitude and the ability to adeptly articulate the finest details of our sophisticated investment tools and models. You will serve as our valued link between our quant research team and our client base, perform custom analyses to meet their specific analytic needs, and publish research notes highlighting how to extract the most benefit from our quantitative models.
As a Quantitative Research Consultant, you will work on sophisticated research projects to enhance our analytical toolset. This position is more externally focused than our traditional quantitative analysis role as you will provide client support by explaining the research behind our analytical products, responding to inquiries and facilitating the integration of our products in clients' processes. You will also have the opportunity to manage custom projects for clients, so the ability to take a consultative approach will be extremely important. As you meet with our top clients, your ability to perform statistical analysis on large, time-series data sets and extensive code writing skills using SAS, R, and/or SQL will be an asset. Quantitative Consultants are also responsible for generating thought-provoking research notes, and we are seeking applicants with experience writing analytical and defensible yet broadly comprehendible technical pieces. Those individuals who have deep and rigorous analytical abilities and outstanding written and verbal communication will thrive in this role. You will have the opportunity to travel and meet personally with the top investment managers domestically and abroad.
Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree minimum; Master's or Ph.D. in engineering, mathematics, sciences, computer science, economics, business, or finance preferred
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Previous work experience in the financial services industry a plus
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Academic or applied understanding of financial statements and financial data
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Strong communication skills with the ability to deliver presentations to both internal and external audiences regarding financial information
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Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
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Experience with statistical packages such as R, S-Plus, Matlab, SAS, SPSS
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Experience working with extremely large databases using SQL
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Experience with writing quantitative research papers and reports, preferably quantitative finance
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Ability and willingness to travel for up to 40% of your work hours throughout the US, Europe, and Asia
Thomson Reuters employees take pride in providing our customers around the world with information that is timely, accurate, unbiased and trusted. We have a profound respect for the professions and customers we serve and define our success in terms of their success. Our work environment is dynamic, innovative and entrepreneurial. We have a result-oriented culture that demands excellence, agility, and the desire to move quickly and precisely to seize opportunities. Our environment is both challenging and supportive - we give employees the opportunity to develop their skills and do their best work.
Thomson Reuters values diversity of culture and thought and seeks talented, qualified employees in all its operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected classification under country or local law.
Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Please submit your application and resume via our online job posting system at: https://toc.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=275140
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ANALYST – THOMSON REUTERS
Description
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. More information about Thomson Reuters and its financial performance can be found on www.ThomsonReuters.com.
StarMine, a Thomson Reuters company, is a global leader in research analytics and is recognized as the Gold Standard in performance measurement (and investment process improvement). StarMine's research and quantitative stock selection models are extensively used by both quantitative and fundamental portfolio managers at more than 550 of the top asset management firms around the world. StarMine products help them to more efficiently research stocks, monitor their holdings, and generate investment ideas. We are best known for "analyzing the analysts," predicting earnings surprises, and intelligently filtering sell-side research. Recent offerings provide earnings quality and intrinsic value scores on all stocks and overlay intelligent analysis on corporate financial statements. The quant research team is currently working on several new quant models including long-term growth and relative value.
We are adding a Quantitative Research Analyst to StarMine's Global Research team in San Francisco. If you like to find new ways to beat the market by ranking stocks more effectively and generating larger returns than market benchmarks, then come join our team. As one of our Quantitative Research Analysts, your primary mission will be to understand and consolidate Thomson Reuters' enormous collection of stock data, write sophisticated programs to investigate our hypotheses, and build clearly understandable stock ranking models that will reliably beat the market. Bring us your intellectual dexterity and brainpower to extract insight from crunching large amounts of data, where you will see your quantitative models implemented right away, for real customers, in real products, making real money.
As one of our Quantitative Research Analysts, you will join a team of highly skilled top-notch quants and develop a backtesting environment for our newest factors and models by extracting a research data set from a massive database. You will actively participate in the entire research process: developing and testing initial hypotheses, gaining insights from research findings, and creatively overcoming any obstacles along the way. Simply put, your challenge will be to build and test intuitively satisfying quantitative stock ranking models that work robustly. Your experience with understanding analyst reports, reviewing and dissecting company financial statements, and programming complex financial models will make you our next superstar. If you have tremendous aptitude, are excited about the potential to learn and grow into a research project leader, and want to work for an amazing company, this is the job for you.
Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree minimum; Master's or Ph.D in engineering, mathematics, sciences, computer science, economics, business, or finance preferred
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Prior work experience in the financial services industry helpful
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Academic or applied understanding of financial statements and financial data
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Strong communication skills with the ability to deliver presentations to both internal and external audiences regarding financial information
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Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
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Programming experience in Python, Visual Basic, or C/C++/C#
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Experience with statistical packages such as R, S-Plus, Matlab, SAS, SPSS
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Experience in working with extremely large databases using SQL
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Experience with writing research papers in quantitative finance or other quantitative field
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A strong interest in progressing quickly to project team leadership
Thomson Reuters employees take pride in providing our customers around the world with information that is timely, accurate, unbiased and trusted. We have a profound respect for the professions and customers we serve and define our success in terms of their success. Our work environment is dynamic, innovative and entrepreneurial. We have a result-oriented culture that demands excellence, agility, and the desire to move quickly and precisely to seize opportunities. Our environment is both challenging and supportive - we give employees the opportunity to develop their skills and do their best work.
Thomson Reuters values diversity of culture and thought and seeks talented, qualified employees in all its operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected classification under country or local law.
Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Please submit your application and resume via our online job posting system at: https://toc.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=261300
