Aspect Capital is a leading systematic Investment Manager at the forefront of research into financial markets, offering a growing range of quantitative investment products to sophisticated institutional investors.

Our Investment Solutions team sits within Aspect’s Business Development function and endeavours to provide detailed technical analysis and support for Aspect’s investors alongside the Sales team. You will be an integral part of the product development and Research functions at Aspect and also provide quantitative expertise to Aspect’s clients on its investment process and the development of new product ideas.

Your responsibilities: 

• Assisting client communication on matters relating to strategies, products, performance and research.
• Supporting the development of our strategies into scalable investment solutions for our clients
• Performance and risk analysis and attribution, including developing appropriate messaging
• Contributing to Aspect’s production of marketing material and thought leadership content
• Industry and competitor analysis
• In time we would expect someone to be able to present Aspect’s strategies to the business, to clients and prospective clients

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to join the Investment Solutions team and to get exposure to and involvement with both the research and idea generation side of the business as well as interaction with clients.

Your experience:

• 1-5 years’ relevant experience working in financial markets or asset management
  • Exposure to quantitative strategies, derivative markets, alternative investments and/or strategies would be beneficial. 
• Programming skills are desirable (Matlab, Python, SQL databases and/or Power BI), but the ability and willingness to learn is more important as this is not a full-time development role.
• High class degree in suitable scientific or quantitative discipline (including economics and finance).
• The successful candidate is expected to develop their presentation skills and be able to express themselves clearly using non-technical language when required to explain technical subjects.

If this sounds like an interesting opportunity we would love to hear from you.

Please note, unfortunately we are currently unable to sponsor anyone who requires a visa, applicants must have the right to work in the UK.