Quantitative Analyst

About the Role

Employment Type: Full time Grade Level (for internal use): 09

About the Role: We are seeking applicants for the role of Analyst in the Index Investment Strategy team in the New York office of S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI).

Bring your creativity and curiosity to a fast-paced team at the center of global financial markets. Reporting to a Senior Director, you will collaborate with an international team to design, develop and promote thought leadership designed to enhance S&P DJI’s revenues, relationships, and reputation. Your insightful and analytical contributions will help grow interest in a market-leading range of indices, including world-famous benchmarks like the S&P 500® and the VIX®, as well as a truly global product range covering all major asset classes and indicators, as well as innovative new market segments. You will also have the chance to support S&P DJI’s market leading SPIVA® research.

You will have the potential to work on a wide range of investment topics, calibrated for a wide range of investor sophistication levels, addressed to a global audience of market participants.

Responsibilities and Impact

Responsibilities:

• Executing on relevant research topics in global financial markets
• Helping produce and maintain a range of performance dashboards
• Answering one-off requests from clients and management
• Contribute to producing content for public dissemination and distribution

Although you will primarily support your direct line manager, your work will also support a team of colleagues based in London, Hong Kong and New York. Activities span the development and delivery actionable insights across a range of formats.

You will:

• Contribute new ideas and conduct original research
• Create and maintain important analytic and reporting tools
• Support regular financial market commentary and analysis
• In time, learn how to publish and present your own work in public forums

Compensation/Benefits Information

(This section is only applicable to US candidates)

• Salary Range: The anticipated base salary range for this position is $63,233 to $89,000. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.
• Incentive Plan: This role is eligible for an annual incentive plan.
• Benefits: This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits.

What We’re Looking For

Basic Required Qualifications:

• Understanding of financial markets
• Collaborative, creative, and curious approach
• Excellence in written and oral communication
• Excellent analytical and quantitative capabilities (Proficiency with MS Office is a must, programming language experience is a plus)
• Interest in the global markets and investing landscape

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• A postgraduate qualification or prior experience in financial services are a plus
• Experience with multimedia production (web/video/socials) is a plus

The Index Investment Strategy Team

The Index Investment Strategy Team’s mission is to enhance the reputation, relationships, and revenues of S&P Dow Jones Indices through actionable insights. We provide research and commentary across our full range of indices and data sets, covering a wide range of topics including but not limited to: the active-passive debate, ETF and index fund trends, factor indices, sustainability and energy transition indices, risk and volatility, and index dynamics. Our thought leadership promotes index-based investing, trading, and benchmarking to a variety of financial market participants, providing actionable insights at a variety of sophistication levels and frequency.

About S&P Dow Jones Indices

At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we