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Thurn Partners
City of London
1 month ago
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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 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 analysing 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 UK, 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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