Junior Quant Analyst

Overview

As Junior Quant Analyst at Quant Capital, you contribute to the development, validation and ongoing maintenance of risk and return models for a leading risk analytics platform. You will collaborate with seasoned Quants to ensure model logic is accurately reflected in platform calculations and to support data-driven validation and testing. The role focuses on learning the wealth management domain while delivering high-quality client support in a hybrid London setting. You will perform model enhancements, data quality checks and exploratory analyses to identify patterns and improve methodologies. Mentorship and exposure to risk and portfolio management opportunities underpin the role.

Responsibilities

• Support development and enhancement of models including risk measures, volatility estimation, optimisation logic, and tolerance frameworks
• Assist with model validation through data analysis, back-testing, scenario testing, and structured validation checks
• Contribute to improvements in model performance, stability, and methodology
• Ensure model logic is accurately translated into platform behaviour and system calculations
• Support testing of new risk metrics, methodology updates, and platform enhancements with emphasis on automated testing and validation
• Work with structured financial and market data to support modelling activities
• Perform exploratory analysis to identify patterns, anomalies, or data quality issues
• Support mapping, classification, and data-integration tasks contributing to data engineering over time

Key requirements

• MSc in Maths, Stats, Computer Science or Physics
• Maths A Level
• Financial Products knowledge
• Python
• Some understanding of SQL

• strong communicator
• self-starter
• client-focused
• Python
• SQL
• data analysis

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