Quantitative Analyst

Janus Henderson Investors • New York, NY

1d • $125,000 - $150,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Janus Henderson Investors US, LLC seeks a Quantitative Analyst in New York, NY to develop quantitative techniques to inform securities investing, equities investing, pricing, or valuation of financial instruments. Develop systematic credit alpha signals to be implemented in both systematic and traditionally fundamental portfolios, use large language models to analyze and build signals based on natural language documents and company filings, and contribute to the design and creation of a quant scoring framework to systematically analyze the entire universe of corporate debt issuers. Help design and launch new investment products based on this quant framework and develop models and tools to help fundamental credit research analysts generate insight into sectors and companies. Remote work permitted 2 days a week.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in quantitative finance, computational finance, or a related field, plus 3 years of experience.
• Fixed income portfolio optimization and asset allocation
• Quantitative research and strategy for asset classes such as high yield or corporate credit
• Developing and back-testing quantitative strategies for trading portfolios, leveraging machine learning to develop new pricing and alpha models
• Quantitative strategies for bond analytics
• Programming using Python, R, Matlab, and SQL tools to analyze data and build simulations.

Responsibilities

• Develop quantitative techniques to inform securities investing, equities investing, pricing, or valuation of financial instruments.
• Develop systematic credit alpha signals to be implemented in both systematic and traditionally fundamental portfolios
• Use large language models to analyze and build signals based on natural language documents and company filings
• Contribute to the design and creation of a quant scoring framework to systematically analyze the entire universe of corporate debt issuers.
• Help design and launch new investment products based on this quant framework
• Develop models and tools to help fundamental credit research analysts generate insight into sectors and companies.

Benefits

• Annual Bonus Opportunity: Position may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus award from the profit pool. The profit pool is funded based on Company profits. Individual bonuses are determined based on Company, department, team and individual performance.
• Benefits: Janus Henderson is committed to offering a comprehensive total rewards package to eligible employees that includes; competitive compensation, pension/retirement plans, and various health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits. To learn more about our offerings please visit the Why Join Us section on the career page here.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees