Quantitative Analyst - Cash and Income Funds

Exciting opportunity for a Quantitative Analyst to join the team of an investment Management company based in the beautiful Southern Suburbs of Cape Town. This is your opportunity to be part of the Cash and Income team responsible for the architecture of the systematic investment engine, databases, research, analytics tools, and processes. A great role with excellent growth potential and exposure to all asset classes. Duties will include ;efficiently receiving, transferring, processing, analysing and streamlining information, research and business processes, including integrating 3rd party service providers and systems and all required reporting.  The role includes extending and enhancing the functionality of PRIME, the Portfolio Research and Investment Management Engine.  If you have strong programming skills, particularly in Python and SQL  and solid experience managing and analysing large amounts of data, this could be the role for you. In this role the candidate will be involved in researching, developing, and maintaining processes to assimilate large amounts of quantitative and qualitative financial data, signal generation and testing for statistical significance, the efficient use of financial derivative contracts to manage market exposure, optimal trade execution and cash management methodologies, portfolio construction and rebalancing techniques, as well as risk management, reporting and visualization.  Exciting opportunity for a Quantitative Analyst to join the team of an investment Management company based in the beautiful Southern Suburbs of Cape Town. This is your opportunity to be part of the Cash and Income team responsible for the architecture of the systematic investment engine, databases, research, analytics tools, and processes. A great role with excellent growth potential and exposure to all asset classes. Duties will include ;efficiently receiving, transferring, processing, analysing and streamlining information, research and business processes, including integrating 3rd party service providers and systems and all required reporting.  The role includes extending and enhancing the functionality of PRIME, the Portfolio Research and Investment Management Engine.  If you have strong programming skills, particularly in Python and SQL  and solid experience managing and analysing large amounts of data, this could be the role for you. In this role the candidate will be involved in researching, developing, and maintaining processes to assimilate large amounts of quantitative and qualitative financial data, signal generation and testing for statistical significance, the efficient use of financial derivative contracts to manage market exposure, optimal trade execution and cash management methodologies, portfolio construction and rebalancing techniques, as well as risk management, reporting and visualization.  DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The key objective is the development of analytics tools and strateg