Quant Researcher

Man Group plc

$110K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in analytics or related field preferred
  • Strong analytical and statistical skills with practical applications
  • Proficiency in high-level programming, ideally Python
  • Hands-on experience with large datasets and risk management techniques
  • Strong academic background in math, stats, computer science, or similar
  • Interest in financial markets and AI technologies
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

  • Leverage AI and modern tools to enhance team productivity
  • Analyze extensive data sets across AHL and Numeric
  • Develop actionable analytics and KPIs from raw data
  • Conduct research for uncovering critical insights
  • Code, build reports, and create tools for researchers and PMs
  • Gain comprehensive understanding of systematic strategies
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams globally

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including competitive holiday entitlements
  • Pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage
  • Enhanced parental leave and long-service leave
  • Two annual days of paid leave for community volunteering
  • Flexible working arrangements available
  • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement
  • Additional benefits may include private medical coverage and gym membership discounts
Full Job Description
The Team: Systematic Portfolio Analytics

Systematic Portfolio Analytics has been a core function within Man AHL for the past four years and is now expanding its mandate to cover the entirety of Man Systematic - both AHL and Numeric. This is not a new team finding its feet; it is a proven, established function with a strong track record inside AHL, now scaling up to deliver across one of the largest systematic platforms in the world.

Our mandate is to deliver quantifiable, transparent, and actionable insights across the entire systematic estate - from individual signals all the way through to fund-level outcomes. We are an integral part of the decision-making process, helping determine where research effort and risk capital should be allocated, and our work is a fundamental node in the feedback loop between research, portfolio management, and the business.

Joining now means joining at a genuinely exciting inflection point: a battle-tested team, a proven playbook, and a step-change in scope - with the opportunity to help shape how Portfolio Analytics is built out across Numeric and the combined platform.

What We're Looking For

We care more about raw ability, curiosity and drive than years of experience. The ideal candidate is someone who:
  • Is a genuine self-starter - comfortable defining their own problems and running with them
  • Has extremely high attention to detail - the kind of person who notices the thing nobody else notices
  • Is entrepreneurial - sees gaps and fills them, without needing to be asked
  • Is constantly curious about the "why" - never satisfied with a surface-level answer
  • Loves solving problems - and gets energy from hard, ambiguous ones
  • Is excited by AI and modern tooling, and proactive about integrating it into their workflow

You will:
  • Aggressively adopt AI and cutting-edge tooling to multiply your own output and the team's output
  • Work with - and make sense of - vast amounts of data across both AHL and Numeric
  • Develop analytics, KPIs and metrics that turn raw data into intelligence
  • Carry out research aimed at uncovering non-obvious insights about our strategies, signals and portfolios
  • Write code, build reporting mechanisms, and create tools that PMs and researchers actually use
  • Rapidly build a deep understanding of the systematic estate, and leverage that knowledge to generate cross-functional insights and synergies between AHL and Numeric
  • Partner closely with PMs, researchers, technologists and traders on both sides of the Atlantic

Technical Skills

Essential
  • Strong analytical & statistical skills - and able to translate them into pragmatic, real-world solutions
  • Comfortable with large datasets and risk management techniques
  • Expertise in a high-level programming language (ideally Python) and its scientific stack (NumPy / SciPy / Pandas or similar)

Advantageous
  • Familiarity with modern AI tooling (LLMs, agentic workflows, Claude Code / Codex CLI)
  • Exposure in key areas on the sell-side, e.g. Trading, Risk, QIS, Financial Engineering, Strats / Quants, Portfolio Management, Electronic / Systematic Trading
  • Experience analyzing or managing complex risk
  • Linux, SQL / Oracle, KDB+

Personal Attributes
  • Strong academic record from a leading university, with a degree containing high mathematical, statistical and computing content (e.g. Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Physics, or Statistics)
  • Keen interest in financial markets
  • Hands-on attitude; willing to get involved with technology and projects across the firm
  • Intellectually robust, with a positive attitude to ambiguity and hard problems
  • Self-organized, able to manage time effectively across multiple competing priorities
  • Strong interpersonal skills; able to build close working relationships with quantitative researchers, technologists, traders and senior business people alike
  • Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views
  • Strong sense of integrity


The anticipated based salary range for this position is listed below. Compensation packages would also include benefits and a discretionary bonus. This is the base salary range that the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting based on the location and requirements of the position as well as the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant. The Firm reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

US Pay Range

$110,000-$130,000 USD

Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Group
You'll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity. Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values. Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you'll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry. Learn more at www.man.com/diversity.

You'll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you'll receive two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Depending on your location, you may also enjoy additional benefits such as private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options and pet insurance.

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