Quantitative Analyst

**Primary Locations**:Montreal, Quebec**:
**Attendance**:Hybrid**:
**Employee Status**:Regular**:
**Schedule**:Full-time**:
**Background**

In its continuous effort to deliver innovative, optimal, and cutting-edge solutions, National Bank Investment (BNI) is looking to increase its portfolio construction expertise. More specifically, the office of the Chief Investment Officer (CIO Office) is growing to meet the increasing need for quantitative analysis of various Wealth Management investment solutions. To do this, the quantitative analyst will help develop portfolio diagnostic and market simulation tools to directly serve NBI asset management mandates representing more than $60 billion in assets under management.

**Your role**
- Help research, develop, and maintain portfolio diagnostic tools for both risk budgeting and ex-post results
- Help research, develop, and maintain market simulation tools
- Participate in the production of documents detailing the various methodologies and processes implemented and the governance of these tools to ensure their sustainability
- Identify opportunities for improving and automating existing processes
- Participate in ad hoc research projects requiring financial engineering expertise
- Create, organize, and use structured databases
- Use macro-financial data software (Bloomberg, Refinitiv)
- We want to contribute to your quality of life by offering you as much flexibility as possible in your work. For example, we offer hybrid work (remote and in the office), work schedule arrangements to help you achieve work/life balance and flexible leave that you can take when it’s important to you.

**Competencies required**:

- Graduate degree in a related field (financial engineering, finance, economics, other quantitative discipline)
- Good knowledge of various asset classes and their interactions: stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, and alternative classes
- Strong programming skills (Python)
- Mastery of Microsoft Office suite, advanced knowledge of Excel
- Excellent collaborator, comfortable multi-tasking and working in a matrix-based organization
- Strong spoken and written English and French communication skills since you will need to speak with partners in both languages accross Canada

**Preferred competencies**:

- 2 years of relevant experience in macro-financial modeling applied to portfolio management
- CFA program in progress

**Your benefits**:
In addition to competitive compensation, upon hiring you’ll be eligible for a wide range of flexible benefits to help promote your wellbeing and that of your family.
- Health and wellness program, including many options
- Flexible group insurance
- Generous pension plan
- Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Preferential banking services
- Initiatives promoting community involvement
- Telemedicine service
- Virtual sleep clinic

These are a few of the benefits available to you. We have an offer that keeps up with trends as well as your needs and those of your family.
Our dynamic work environments and cutting-edge collaboration tools foster a positive employee experience. We actively listen to employees’ ideas. Whether through our surveys or programs, regular feedback and ongoing communication is encouraged.

**We're putting people first**:
We're a bank on a human scale that stands out for its courage, entrepreneurial culture, and passion for people. Our mission is to have a positive impact on peoples' lives.

Our core values of partnership, agility, and empowerment inspire us, and inclusivity is central to our commitments. We offer a barrier-free workplace that is accessible to all employees.

We want our recruitment process to be fully accessible. If you require accommodations, feel free to let us know during your first conversations with us.
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