Quant Strategist

Job description / Role

About Northern Trust

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889. Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role/Department

The Equity group manages around $700 billion USD in passive and active, factor-based equity strategies for institutional and intermediary clients across the globe. Headquartered in Chicago, the group has representation in London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Melbourne, and Bangalore. We seek an individual to lead our Middle East operations; leading the business, and serving as the primary client-facing representative in the region. The role is ideal for someone that can straddle both the strategic and tactical.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Drive the commercial and strategic agenda of the Middle East Equity business, in conjunction with key global stakeholders. The role will be divided between the development of our strategy platform and commercial positioning.
• Increase the footprint and thought leadership of NTAM in the Middle East.
• Build client solutions of the highest quality.
• Represent NTAM's equity platform in client and prospect meetings, conferences, webinars, and other venues.
• Collaborate with the regional Product and Sustainability teams and global Research teams on development of new strategies and ideas.
• Collaborate with the regional Marketing team on messaging and development of collateral materials.
• (Co-)author white papers and research pieces of global and local interest.

Skills/Qualifications

• Extensive experience working with the most sophisticated investors in the region; ability to help build long-term relationships.
• Strong knowledge of the Middle East institutional investment landscape including asset owners, competitors, and relevant regulations.
• Strong presentation skills with the acumen to explain complex quantitative concepts and research to a wide range of audiences including experts and large audiences.
• The ability to explain complex material in a simple, logical, story-like manner.
• The ability to connect and communicate with a wide variety of audiences and levels of sophistication.
• Excellent writing skills as demonstrated by a track record of published articles and whitepapers.
• A deep understanding of local investment issues and regulation with a focus on custom integration.
• A passion for solutions thinking.
• CFA, MBA, PhD are strong pluses.

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve. Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies. Build your career with us and apply today.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please let us know.

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people. Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.