Job purpose:
- Are you in your element when we speak about stocks, indices and the development of new investment strategies?
- Do you follow the latest trends in the ETF and stock markets?
- Are you highly motivated to take on responsibility for projects and to work independently as well as in a team?
- A high customer orientation is an essential part of your personality?
- Are you highly ambitious to push things forward and to participate in shaping the further development of the equity indexing business?
- Then you will very likely fit into our team!
Your Responsibilities:
- Developing innovative equity indices together with our reputable, global client base focusing on thematic or quantitative investment strategies
- Identifying new product opportunities to complement and enhance our index offering
- Developing historical performance simulations (back-testing) for defined investment strategies
- Drafting index guidelines and supporting documents/analysis
- Setting up indices for the calculation and publication via data vendors
- Coordinating internal processes with our operations, sales and marketing teams for a successful index launch.
Skills/Qualifications:
- Academic degree in Economics, (quantitative) Finance, Business Engineering or comparable programs
- At least 7 years of experience in the indexing business or other relevant fields (e.g. Portfolio Management or Structuring)
- Strong expertise in thematic or quantitative investment products
- High command of Microsoft Excel/VBA
- Further proven programming skills (preferably in Python) are beneficial
- Experience with data vendor terminals (e.g. FactSet, Reuters or Bloomberg) is a plus
- Delivery of timely results with focus on high quality even when confronted with tight deadlines
- Self-confidence and team-spirit
- Intercultural competence and excellent communication skills.
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