Quantitative Researcher, Private Equity Co-Investments (Boston, London or Dublin)

About the role

This position will be a hybrid work arrangement. You will receive 18 remote workdays per quarter to use at your discretion, subject to manager approval.

Responsibilities

• Conducting quantitative/statistical analysis of private markets and investment opportunities (80%)
  • Analyzing proprietary private markets datasets and models to characterize market risk/return relationships
  • Evaluate investment opportunities in the private equity co-investment market to inform investment selection and due diligence
  • Diligently perform data exploration and visualization to test investment team hypotheses
  • Communicate analysis results and actionable insights to the investment team
  • Support and drive adoption and integration of QIS models with fundamental analysis conducted by deal teams
  • Seek to apply new models and techniques (AI/ML) to advance the use of quantitative methods in the investment process
• Responding to ad-hoc quantitative analysis requests (20%)
  • Supporting client facing teams in conducting ad-hoc analysis and responding to client requests

Qualifications

• Experience in quantitative equity is required; prior experience with bottoms-up financial modeling is preferred.
• Prior private markets experience is not required.
• Demonstrate rigorous statistical analysis and experience analyzing large datasets.
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python (including numerical, statistical modeling and visualization libraries) and SQL.
• Prefer prior independent research experience (academic thesis or industry research).
• Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A) or Bachelor of Science (B.S.) required. Prefer master's degree or Ph.D. in a technical field.