Quantitative Associate

VanEck

$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Practical knowledge of fixed income markets including Treasuries, corporates, and municipal bonds.
  • Experience in building data pipelines for structured and unstructured datasets.
  • Skilled in developing tools, dashboards, or scripts for investment process automation.
  • Excellent communication skills for effective cross-functional collaboration.
  • Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Quantitative Finance, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
  • 3-5 years in quantitative research, portfolio optimization, or financial engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Enhance and maintain fixed income portfolio optimization models.
  • Produce and maintain monthly and quarterly performance reports including slippage and transaction cost analysis.
  • Identify opportunities for automating investment, analytics, and reporting processes using AI.
  • Assist in evaluating new issue municipal bond offerings with structure and covenant analysis.
  • Support secondary trade execution in municipal bonds by managing real-time negotiations.

Benefits

  • A collaborative work environment with opportunities for cross-functional teamwork.
  • Access to advanced data engineering tools and AI technologies for process automation.
  • Potential for involvement in innovative financial research and tool development.
Full Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Includes the following, other duties may be assigned as needed:
  • Enhance and maintain fixed income portfolio optimization models.
  • Produce and maintain monthly and quarterly performance reports, including slippage analysis, transaction cost analysis, and attribution reports (sector, duration, spread, and security selection attribution).
  • Identify opportunities to automate manual investment, analytics, and reporting processes using AI and data engineering tools.
  • Assist portfolio managers in evaluating new issue municipal bond offerings, including structure analysis, covenant assessment, and relative value analysis.
  • Support portfolio managers in secondary municipal trade execution by submitting bids and offers and actively managing real-time negotiations with dealers.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

Qualifications
  • Practical knowledge of fixed income markets (Treasuries, corporates, and municipal bonds).
  • Experience building data pipelines and working with large structured and unstructured datasets (market data, holdings, trades, research text).
  • Experience developing internal research tools, dashboards, or automation scripts that improve investment team productivity.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.

Education and/or Experience
  • Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Quantitative Finance, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related field.
  • 3-5 years of experience in quantitative research, portfolio optimization, or financial engineering.

Practical knowledge of fixed income markets (Treasuries, corporates, securitized products, derivatives).

Compensation
  • If this position will be performed in whole or in part in New York City, the base salary range is $120,000 - $150,000. Individual salaries may vary based on different factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, job-related knowledge, and location. Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with this position.

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