Quantitative Research & Strategy Analyst
Westbury Partners Dubai, United Arab EmiratesQuantitative Research & Strategy Analyst
Drive data-driven investment and business decisions by developing quantitative models, uncovering market insights, testing strategies, and transforming complex datasets into rigorous, actionable solutions that deliver measurable impact.
What You'll Do:
- Conduct quantitative research across financial, market, economic, and alternative datasets.
- Develop, test, validate, and refine statistical and mathematical models.
- Identify meaningful patterns, trends, relationships, and predictive signals within complex datasets.
- Design and backtest quantitative strategies, signals, and predictive models.
- Apply statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, optimization, and model evaluation techniques.
- Build data pipelines, research tools, and analytical workflows that support efficient quantitative research.
- Monitor strategy and model performance, investigate risk, and identify sources of performance degradation.
- Collaborate with traders, portfolio managers, data scientists, engineers, and risk professionals.
- Clearly document research methodologies, assumptions, findings, and recommendations.
- Stay current with emerging quantitative methodologies, technologies, datasets, and research techniques.
- Communicate complex research findings effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Your Responsibilities Will Include:
- Turning complex datasets into clear, evidence-based insights.
- Developing robust quantitative models and systematic strategies.
- Ensuring research is statistically rigorous, reproducible, and well documented.
- Evaluating model performance and challenging assumptions to improve research quality.
- Combining strong programming capabilities with mathematical and statistical reasoning.
- Contributing independently while collaborating effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
Why Join Us:
- Work on challenging and intellectually stimulating quantitative problems.
- Gain exposure to advanced research, technology, datasets, and analytical methodologies.
- Make a measurable impact through data-driven decision-making.
- Develop your expertise within a collaborative and learning-focused environment.
- Access opportunities for professional growth and continuous technical development.
- Benefit from competitive compensation and performance-based incentives.
About You:
- You are an analytical, curious, and highly motivated quantitative thinker with a strong foundation in mathematics, statistics, probability, linear algebra, calculus, and optimization. You are confident using Python and SQL to analyse data, build models, and investigate complex problems.
- You bring strong problem-solving skills, meticulous attention to detail, and a genuine research mindset. Experience with financial markets, portfolio theory, systematic strategies, machine learning, time-series analysis, factor models, statistical arbitrage, or quantitative finance is highly valued.
- Experience with C++, R, Git, cloud technologies, distributed computing, financial datasets, alternative data, or high-frequency data is advantageous. Academic research, publications, competitions, or demonstrable quantitative projects are also welcome.
- Most importantly, you can formulate thoughtful research questions, challenge assumptions, communicate your conclusions clearly, and turn rigorous analysis into practical solutions.
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