Financial Quantitative Analysts
Develop quantitative financial products used to inform individuals or financial institutions engaged in saving, lending, investing, borrowing, or managing risk. Investigate methods for financial analysis to create mathematical models used to develop improved analytical tools or advanced financial investment instruments.
Also called: Global Credit Quantitative Analysis Head, Investment Strategist, Portfolio Manager, Quantitative Analyst
Knowledge:
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
- product and service development
Skills:
- using math to solve problems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- listen and understand what people say
- read and understand what is written
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Achievement/Effort
- Dependability
- Persistence
- Integrity
Technology:
Object or component oriented development software
- C++
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
Analytical or scientific software
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
