Senior Consultant, Risk & Quant

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 180,000 investment professionals around the globe. We stay ahead of global market trends, power robust company and industry research, and provide comprehensive data with our market-leading solutions.

We believe today’s talent powers tomorrow’s innovations. As a globally inclusive community, we bring our whole selves to work, and encourage employees to join in, be heard, contribute, and grow. Our work environment fosters diversity, engagement, and productivity because we know that great ideas can come from anyone, at any time.

Your Team's Impact

The Buyside division of FactSet is growing its risk and quant solutions by leveraging the strengths of our analytical products with the expertise of our risk and quant specialists. We aim to develop premier Enterprise Risk Solutions and innovative Quant Solutions offerings. This initiative provides an exciting growth opportunity within FactSet and addresses the needs of an expanding macro risk community and multi-asset class analytics sectors. The Buyside Client Services team seeks a Senior Risk & Quant Specialist for our Sofia location, welcoming individuals passionate about risk management, platform learning, and client solutions support.

Responsibilities:

• Run risk and portfolio construction analyses across different asset classes for clients and prospects
•  Provide on demand support to clients in terms of using the system and interpreting the results
• Implement different modules of the system for new clients
• Deliver advisory managed services to assist clients with complex workflows, methodology consulting, interpretation of results, and turning data and analytics into actionable insights
• Proactively manage our client account relationships
• Prepare detailed Proof of Concepts (POC) for prospective clients
• Assist our clients with system customizations
• Lead client-facing communication providing product (functional and technical) guidance, manage implementation scope and effort estimates
• Manage client expectations. Provide regular and clear updates.
• Conduct user trainings and support the development of training programs
• Assist the team in the quality assurance/testing process of the software features
• Interact with different teams – Product Development, Software Engineers, Quants, Project Managers
• Actively participate in enriching the product knowledge basе and internal documentation

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics or related subject
• At least 3 years of experience within a similar or relevant financial role
• Professional background in Finance or Economics, in particular risk and asset management.
• Strong understanding of the area of risk management, financial instruments pricing, factor-based investing, portfolio construction and optimization.
• Solid understanding of MS Excel such as formulas, pivot tables, functions, advanced formatting and charting, etc.
• Basic experience in SQL queries and database structures or similar

Beneficial Skills:

• Financial background in the Asset Management industry
• Genuine interest in capital markets and portfolio management
• Experience with Risk Management and Portfolio Construction
• Interest and affinity to work with software, data and analytics
• Financial instruments pricing knowledge, including standard Stock and Bonds assets as well as derivative products such as Options, Futures, Swaps (e.g. CDS, IRS, TRS), Structured Products, etc.
• Python and data science skills would be considered as plus
• Participation in the CFA Program or FRM Program

What's In It For You

At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:

• Contributing to a firm with over 40 years of consecutive growth, named a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor and led by a top-rated CEO Talent Champion.
• Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and companywide wellness days.
• Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.
• A global community dedicated to volunteerism, sustainability, and inclusivity, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.
• Career progression plans with dedicated time each month for learning and development.
• Employee-led Business Resource Groups that align with our DE&I strategy and are wholly supported by Executive Management.

Learn more about our benefits here.

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Salary is just one component of our compensation package and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, and certifications.