Quantitative Financial Analyst (Toronto, Canada)

Waterfront International is a Toronto-based financial consulting firm, specializing in developing computer based statistical trading strategies. Waterfront’s selective hiring process considers only highly talented individuals with a history of exceptional professional and academic achievement, and solid real-world experience.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Developing, testing and implementing quantitative trading models.
• Models will be based on quantitative data analysis rather than qualitative analysis.
• Research strategies in equities and other markets.
• Perform historical backtesting to determine optimal strategy parameters.
• Generate new indicator ideas.

Requirements of the Candidate include:

• PhD or Masters in physics, statistics or mathematics.
• Strong working knowledge of finance and statistics.
• CFA or working toward the CFA designation.
• Must possess expert level C/C++ programming skills.
• Must be a strong self-starter and able to work well independently.

Waterfront International
Email: recruiting@wil.com

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