Fixed Income Quantitative Analyst

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What is the opportunity?

As a Fixed Income Quantitative Analyst, you will develop, enhance and maintain mathematical models, portfolio management systems and databases used by the GAM US Fixed Income team. The Analyst will be responsible to drive change and leverage existing and potential systems and models to optimize investment processes and decisions. The Fixed Income Quantitative Analyst will also partner with and leverage both locally and globally based Risk, Technology, Data and Investment Teams.

What will you do?

Execute on Fixed Income-related research and analysis projects, both independently and collaboratively by building and enhancing systems, models and databases used by the Fixed Income team. Potential topics include: research, trading, analytics, and model portfolios.

Contribute to analytics infrastructure.

Propose technological solutions based on understanding of existing infrastructure and external tools or practices.

Become knowledgeable of existing data infrastructure and build, or direct building of additional needs.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

Bachelor degree required in a quantitative discipline (Financial Engineering, Operations Research, Math, Computer Science, Statistics, etc).

Programming experience in VBA, R, MATLAB, SQL or similar languages and someone who is quantitatively savvy with strong analytical/problem solving skills.

Communication ability – the ability to communicate complicated, nuanced material in a clear and concise fashion and someone who is creative and generates fresh project ideas.

Technical Skills – Experience building applications in MatLab, R, or another high-level language used in statistical computing. Advanced Excel skills required.

Attention to detail – takes ownership of projects, strong focus on quality, correctness, and intuitiveness of output.

Understanding of development lifecycle and change management processes and someone who is motivated, hard-working and a self-starter.

Nice-to-have

Fixed Income experience/knowledge with experience experience or knowledge of technology documentation protocols.

Experience with programming & scripting languages (e.g. C/C++, Perl).

FactSet, Bloomberg and Charles River experience.

Understanding of basic statistics and econometrics; financial statement analysis knowledge and some experience in quantitative research.

CFA or interest in obtaining.

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

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Collaboration: We win as One RBC

Accountability: We take ownership for personal and collective high performance

Diversity & Inclusion: We embrace diversity for innovation and growth

Integrity: We hold ourselves to the highest standards to build trust

About RBC

Royal Bank of Canada is Canada’s largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis. We have over 80,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 37 other countries. For more information, please visit rbc.com .

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Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

RBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the application process are available upon request.

JOB SUMMARY

City: Minneapolis

Address: 50 South Sixth Street

Work Hours/Week: 40

Work Environment: Office

Employment Type: Regular – U.S.

Career Level: Experienced Hire/Professional

Pay Type: Salaried

Required Travel (%): 0

Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt

People Manager: No

Application Deadline: 04/23/2017

Req ID: 133917

Posting Notes: None