SVP, Lead Quant Strategist, Equities

GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 offices around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

Public Equities (EQ) 
We generate sustainable, superior returns through active investments across global equity markets. Strategies include total return strategies, absolute return strategies, and relative return strategies. Our long-term orientation and strong relationships with corporates provide us with opportunities to capitalize on market volatility to deliver strong investment performance.

We are seeking an experienced professional to join us as Lead Quantitative Strategist. In this role, you will lead, drive, and conduct quantitative research and analysis on different equity strategies to deliver impactful insights and tools that enhance our investment decision-making process.  

What impact can you make in this role?

You will get to lead a specialize team of quantitative professionals to grow their career and expertise in harnessing data, quantitative and AI/ML methods to provide holistic and comprehensive data and evidence based driven insights and recommendations that drives our investment decision-making. 

You will get to augment, innovate, and shape the different stages of our investment process with quantitative and AI/ML methods and tools to amplify our breadth, depth, and scale in generating investment performance. Additionally, you will shape the department's data and analytical capabilities, helping to institutionalize and expand our collective domain knowledge.  

What will you do as a Lead Quantitative Strategist?

• Thought partner to department and investment heads in harnessing data, quantitative and AI/ML methods to augment the respective investment processes. 
• Thought partner to help shape the department’s data and analytical capabilities, landscape, and ecosystem. 
• Lead, guide and manage quantitative research and analysis work across the investment process ranging from idea generation, due diligence, portfolio construction, portfolio risks & monitoring, ensuring research quality and on time delivery. 
• Oversee and govern models, analysis, and tools implementation to ensure conformance to best practices, team wide tools and infrastructure. 
• Manage and run team’s model and analytics operations. 
• Aid in sharing and cross fertilizing of quantitative applications, analysis, and tools across departments, surfacing insights to the team and GIC at large. 
• Perform quantitative research and analysis on capital allocations, portfolio constructions, optimizations, and risks. 
• Analyse company fundamentals and valuations, identify coincident and leading indicators for various KPIs using alternative data. 
• Analyse macroeconomic drivers and conduct micro-to-macro (company to sector, country) and macro-to-micro analysis, offering nuanced insights and recommendations. 
• Utilize quantitative and network information to perform sensitivity and impact analysis of events and reporting. 
• Effectively communicate quantitative ideas to Portfolio Managers to inform investment decisions and achieve high conversion rates of research to P&L. 
• Apply behavioural analytics to help PMs make better decisions. 

What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?

• Advanced degree in fields such as Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Economics   
• More than 12 years of relevant experiences in performing quantitative research and analysis on equity asset class including applying quantitative methods and AI/ML in capital allocation, portfolio construction, optimization, and risk management. 
• Good understandings of macro and equities investing and/or capital markets. 
• Proficiency in R or Python and SQL   
• Be highly motivated, intellectually curious and adept at multi-tasking. 
• Independent thinker who is able articulate his/her views well, both in verbal and written form 
• Strong team player who is comfortable in fostering new internal and external relationships 
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to understand, influence and obtain buy-in from stakeholders effectively. 

Work at the Point of Impact
We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.

Flexibility at GIC
At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection.  At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves.  Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.

GIC is an equal opportunity employer 
GIC is an equal opportunity employerGIC is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please email grphrodtaops@gic.com.sg at any point of the application or interview process if adjustments need to be made due to a disability.

Learn more about our Public Equities Department here: 
https://gic.careers/group/public-equities/