What are the responsibilities and job description for the Equity Sector Data Analyst, New York position at Thurn Partners?
Company Insight:
This prestigious global investment management firm is expanding its London office, seeking intellectually curious individuals to drive innovation in equities strategies. Leveraging proprietary cutting-edge technology and rigorous scientific research, the company excels in trading, technology, and operations, and is now looking to expand their discretionary organisation. Data is not a support function here but drives the firm’s approach, with data analysts scientists having direct and tangible communication with PMs and traders. With a true emphasis on global collaboration, their investment, technology, and operations teams are aligned functionally around the world.
Your Role:
- Develop insights and generate ideas for the equity fundamental research team using data-driven approaches.
- Collaborate across the firm to exchange results, feedback, and custom tools effectively.
- Conduct tasks such as KPI estimation and projection for companies or sectors, hypothesis testing through data analysis, building screening tools, and assessing new and existing datasets for relevance and quality.
- Gain a deep understanding of the fundamental models used by analysts and create data-driven variables to enhance these models.
- Assess the value and relevance of new datasets for specific sectors or stocks.
- Execute data-driven studies to validate or refute hypotheses for specific research ideas.
Experience/Skills Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field
- Strong programming skills, proficiency in SQL and Python required
- Experience in analyzing complex data sets and research experience with alternative data is a plus
- Industry experience in fundamental analysis preferred
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a buy-side firm
- Experience with healthcare or energy data sectors preferred
Pre-Application:
- Please do not apply if you are looking for a contract or remote work
- You must be eligible to live and work in the US, without requiring sponsorship
- Please ensure you meet the required experience section prior to applying
- Allow 1-5 working days for a response to any job enquiry
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