# Fixed Income Quantitative Specialist

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Location**: New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $112,100 - $186,900
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Fixed Income Quantitative Specialist of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC), Quantitative Product Research reports directly to the Head of FICC Quantitative Research within the FTSE Russell organization at LSEG.

The successful candidate will be involved in the research and development of new systematic and thematic indexes to expand FTSE’s existing family of fixed income indices to cater for the needs of our global sales and client groups.

Responsibilities:

- Support the global FICC Product and Research agenda with a focus on new index research, generate simulations, backtesting analysis and index prototypes;

- Engage proactively with key client segments to educate on the FTSE approach and capabilities, support product education, adoption and development of client segment and individual client strategies;

- Contribute to the research and supporting analysis for new white papers and studies in the systematic Fixed Income space;

- Acts as a subject matter expert to stakeholders, developing and utilising deep knowledge and expertise of products;

- Liaise with various teams to establish a client feedback loop to formulate product strategies;

- Work closely with the sales, marketing, research teams and product management colleagues to support development and launch of fixed income, currency and commodities benchmark products and services;

- Collaborate on the development, publication of product documentation and client communication;

- Contribute to the benchmark index product development process;

- Work closely with regional and global team to support the further development of global fixed income, currency and commodities product strategies.

Key Aspects of the Position Include:

- Taking on several projects across the region;

- Support product programmes in the region to deliver results;

- Contribute to a culture of excellence and rigour;

- Contribute to developing a quantitative product strategy for the region;

- Support of strong linkage between the Research, Sales and Marketing teams and Product Management colleagues;

- Liaise with teams across the group to facilitate cross-group collaboration;

- Develop a deep understanding of index management / operational / technical / system requirements.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

- Experience in the area of financial data engineering, quantitative research, mathematics, financial modelling, investment markets or closely related areas;

- Market knowledge of fixed income, portfolio construction, analytics;

- Experience in working on development of fixed income benchmark products;

- Understanding of the investment process and experience in dealing with asset owners, investment consultants, and asset managers;

- Proven ability to collaborate across functional teams to deliver results;

- Client focused and service oriented;

- Self-motivated and team orientated.

Qualifications:

- Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in a quantitative field (e.g., Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science).

The individual will need to have the following key attributes:

- Drive to achieve business goals;

- A strong client focused ethic;

- Superior communication and presentation skills;

- Ability to deal with multiple priorities and changing requirements;

- Ability to take a strategic view on commercial opportunities;

- Self-motivated and team orientated;

- Excellent relationship skills;

- Good networking ability;

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;

- High proficiency in Python, Matlab, Excel and/or VBA.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Matlab
- Excel
- VBA
- financial data engineering
- quantitative research
- mathematics
- financial modelling
- investment markets

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