Voya Financial is a financial services company focused on helping individuals and communities achieve better financial futures. The Quantitative Research Analyst will support Voya Investment Management’s Systematic Equities team by building data pipelines, maintaining quantitative research infrastructure, implementing models, and supporting production. The role also contributes to alpha research, portfolio management, product development, and investment thought leadership.
Build, maintain and monitor reliable data pipelines supporting quantitative research and production models
Help maintain and advance the team’s shared codebase, data repositories, and cloud-based technology stack that is the cornerstone of our research and production processes
Clean, validate and evaluate new data sets from a range of sources for their potential to generate alpha
Work on innovative research projects aimed at advancing our proprietary multi-factor and machine intelligence models through the addition of new alpha signals or better model estimation techniques, both linear and nonlinear
Collaborate with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, technology partners and, over time, fundamental analysts
Contribute to new product development in collaboration with our client-facing and product teams
Contribute to thought leadership articles to enhance awareness of our team’s investment philosophy and capabilities
Qualification
Required
Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Financial Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, etc
0-5 years of relevant work experience in applied quantitative research, preferably investment management
Strong analytical and mathematical skills
Excellent working knowledge of econometrics and statistics
Hands-on experience across broad range of modern analytic and data tools, particularly Python (numpy/pandas, machine learning packages such as XGBoost and SKLearn) with a solid understanding of relational databases
Attention to detail, curious, and self-motivated
Ability to work independently and collaboratively within the broader research team, as well as prioritize tasks
Excellent problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to translate quantitative insights into actionable process improvements
Have a passion for data science and financial markets, the curiosity to master new technologies and techniques, and a desire to drive transformational change
Preferred
Working towards a CFA
Familiarity with financial statement analysis
Bonus points for experience with cloud services (eg Azure), financial datasets (eg factset, bloomberg), and factor investing
Benefit
Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
Voya Financial is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of retirement, investments, and insurance. It is a sub-organization of Venerable Holdings.
