DESIM Technical Strategist Associate (51092BD)

About the Role

Referment is working with a global investment and technology firm to hire a technically oriented strategist for a portfolio strategy team that develops active equity and multi-asset investment products for institutional clients. The role offers exposure to how investment products are researched, enhanced, evaluated, and explained, working closely with portfolio strategy and investment colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute quantitative analysis and portfolio design to investment-product development and customisation.
• Research and help implement strategy enhancements focused on portfolio construction, risk modelling, and robustness.
• Analyse portfolios and risk to identify structural weaknesses, concentrations, and opportunities.
• Produce rigorous technical work and explain findings to quantitative and non-quantitative stakeholders.
• Support investor discussions, prepare materials, and answer technical questions on portfolio construction, risk, and performance.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Python or similar programming skills
• Interest in clean, testable code.
• A systematic approach to numerical problems.
• Interest in financial markets.
• Strong technical writing and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of numerical and statistical methods is advantageous.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in a quantitative, scientific, engineering, finance, or economics discipline.

This could suit an early-career quantitative analyst, investment strategist, or technically minded graduate who wants to develop across portfolio research and client-facing explanation.