The Role: WorldQuant is seeking a bright individual to join our Portfolio and Treasury Services team in Mumbai as an Analyst. The ideal candidate would be someone, who is self-driven and motivated and enjoys being immersed in the mechanics of the financial markets. The role will focus on the daily operations and related activities. The candidate will need to provide level 1 operational support to the front office teams, as well as portfolio managers. Level 1 support will include:

1. Start-of-day checks in each region
2. Managing exceptions and alerts triggered via standard operational workflows
3. Resolving trading outages quickly and ensuring minimum system downtime from an operations perspective
4. Escalating issues to team leads and engaging with stakeholders to refine the workflows

Additionally, the individual will be responsible for reconciling WorldQuant’s activity globally and handle breaks with counterparties.

The role will require flexibility to work in night shifts.

What You’ll Bring:

• Degree in finance or other business-related discipline.
• Prior work experience of 1-3 years.
• Reasonable proficiency in SQL and UNIX will be desirable, but not mandatory.
• Exposure to asset classes like Equity, Futures, FX and Derivatives, although not mandatory, would be viewed favourably.
• Strong communication skills in both verbal and written form.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail.
• Mature, thoughtful, with ability to operate in a collaborative, team-oriented culture.

Position based in Mumbai, India

The Role: We are looking for a dedicated and motivated Project Manager who will be responsible for shepherding global Research initiatives. The Project Manager will be a key member of the leadership team of the project, coordinating activities with various global managers and leaders. If you have excellent people skills, business acumen and exemplary work ethics, we’d like to meet you. The goal of the Project Manager role is to secure the functionality of the project to drive extensive and sustainable growth.

Job Responsibilities (include, but not limited to the following):

• Discuss/Justify/Convince/Coordinate activities with various senior and mid-level managers in various functions, in order to shepherd and expedite good ideas into decision/action/reality.
• Initiate discussions to help bring to light issues of the project, identify solutions, and lead and shepherd the implementation of those solutions.
• Collaborate with project leaders in setting and driving organizational vision, operational strategy, and hiring levels for the project.
• Develop actionable project strategies and plans that ensure alignment with short-term and long-term objectives developed in tandem with project leaders.
• Translate strategy into actionable steps for growth, implementing project goal setting, performance management, and operations planning of the project.
• Build and maintain positive relationships and drive collaboration with various colleagues to ensure successful execution and delivery of projects
• Perform regular assessment of project execution to identify areas for improvement
• To coordinate with internal resources across functions, ensuring project remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments
• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments and progress
• Develop and maintain project plans documentation, report on project progress and risks to management

What You’ll Bring:

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree(s) from a leading university
• 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager or in similar role
• Experience as a team leader
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Self-starter: has shown an ability to set up initiatives and see them to the end without supervision.
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively
• Strong familiarity with project management methodologies and best practices
• Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
• Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget and timeline
• Ability to diagnose problems quickly and foresee potential issues
• Ability to multitask, work independently and as an integral member of the team with minimal supervision
• Any of the following would be an added bonus:
  • Experience in business management
  • Experience in the quant or finance domains

What We Offer:

• Competitive financial compensation
• Friendly and collegial working environment
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive employee benefits
• A culture of continuous learning

The Role: The Platform Solutions team assesses designs and improves the firm’s operating models to support current and future products. It considers how functions and systems align with product needs, identifies gaps and opportunities, and drives solutions to enable scalable growth within WorldQuant Millenium Advisors, a joint venture between WorldQuant and Millennium.

Reporting to the Global Head of Platform Solutions, this person will run the guideline monitoring function, support the operational evaluation of prospective and new products, assist with vendor initiatives, and provide business analysis and project management across related projects. More detailed role responsibilities include:

• Support product onboarding for guideline monitoring, including rule interpretation, documentation, and testing within the guideline monitoring platform.
• Support day-to-day guideline monitoring and reporting, including maintaining rules, report distribution, facilitation of breach review and resolution, and compliance reporting.
• Produce reporting and analysis for compliance, performance & attribution, strategy, and related areas.
• Analyze how functions and systems support products to identify gaps, risks and optimization opportunities.
• Support vendor-related activities, including requirements gathering and coordination.
• Generate, review, and validate portfolio statistics
• Provide project management support including organizing meeting materials and tracking key objectives.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting or similar analytical discipline
• 2-5 years of relevant experience in a financial services industry role (e.g., Ops, Product)
• Strong skills in requirements gathering, workflow building; experience with vendor management is helpful.
• Ability to engage across many workstreams, operate well under tight deadlines with high detail orientation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders
• Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint; experience with process mapping tools (e.g., MS Visio)

Position based in Mumbai, India

The Role: Research is at the core of WorldQuant. Through rigorous exploration and unconstrained thinking about how to apply data to the financial markets, our researchers are in constant search of new alphas. Researchers at WorldQuant employ tested processes seeking to identify high-quality predictive signals that we believe are undiscovered by the wider market. These signals are mathematical expressions of data that are used as inputs in our quantitative models.

WorldQuant is seeking an exceptional individual to join the firm as a Quantitative Researcher. The person must have a strong understanding of the investment research process to create computer-based models that seek to predict movements of global financial markets. While prior finance experience is not required, a successful candidate must possess a strong interest in learning about finance and global markets. Candidates will have a research scientist mind-set; be a self-starter, a creative and persevering deep thinker who is motivated by unsolved challenges.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

• Bachelor's (Hons), Master's or PhD degree in in a highly quantitative or highly analytical field e.g. Math, Physics, Computer Science or Financial Engineering from a leading university with excellent academic records are strongly preferred
• Have a research scientist mindset, i.e., be a deep thinker, creative, persevering, smart, a self-starter, etc.
• Knowledge of Linear Algebra, Statistics, Machine Learning
• Prior experience in Finance/Trading is a plus.
• Be competent in a programming language (Python, Unix)
• Possess good English language skills
• Have a strong interest in learning about worldwide financial markets
• Possess a relentless drive to succeed, supplemented by a strong work ethic

The Role: WorldQuant is seeking a bright individual to join our Portfolio and Treasury Services team in Mumbai as an L1 Ops Shift Manager, managing the team’s L1 Operations during night shift. The ideal candidate would be someone who is self-driven, motivated and enjoys being immersed in the mechanics of the financial markets. The role will focus on the daily post trade operations and related activities. The candidate will oversee the support provided by a team of junior L1 operations analysts, which works closely with front office teams, as well as portfolio managers. They will serve as the first point of escalation for any outages and will triage daily BAU issues. Level 1 support will include:

1. Start-of-day checks prior to trading activation in each region
2. Managing exceptions and alerts triggered via standard operational workflows
3. Resolving trading outages quickly and ensuring minimum system downtime from an operations perspective
4. Liaison with other team leads and engage with stakeholders to refine the workflows
5. Reconciling WorldQuant’s trading activity globally and handle breaks with counterparties

The role will require flexibility to work night shifts.

What You’ll Bring:

• Degree in finance or other business-related discipline.
• Prior work experience of at least 10 years.
• Experience in managing a team of operations analysts, with direct supervision of their daily responsibilities.
• Ability to interact clearly with mid-level or senior stakeholders and escalate issues on time.
• Responsibility for meeting daily KPI targets, following up on KPI metric breaches and resolving governance issues.
• Reasonable proficiency in SQL and UNIX.
• Exposure to asset classes like Equity, Futures, FX and Derivatives
• Strong communication skills in both verbal and written form.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail.
• Mature, thoughtful, with ability to operate in a collaborative, team-oriented culture.

Position based in Mumbai, India