VP, Quantitative Strategist, External Managers

Location: New York

Job Function: External Managers Department 

Job Type: Permanent

Req ID: 17403 

GIC is one of the world’s largest investors and sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

External Managers Department
The External Managers Department seeks to identify and develop relationships with the best breed of global investment managers to benefit GIC at large, and at the same time capturing investment opportunities to outperform our benchmarks.

What impact can you make in this role?

You will partner with portfolio managers and analysts in EMD. Your primary focus will be on the Developed Markets Equity book, applying quantitative and data-driven techniques, including AI/ML, to sharpen how external managers are underwritten, sized and monitored. Your work will span across quantitative research, idea generation, quantitative due diligence, portfolio construction, monitoring and performance attribution. The objective is to improve risk-adjusted returns by embedding quantitative excellence into the investment process and partner with portfolio managers to answer hard questions.

What will you do as a Quantitative Strategist?

• Quantitative Research. Deliver deep research on portfolio topics, typically as short white papers, and cross-pollinate applications, analysis and insights across investment teams.


• PM Engagement. Work directly with PMs to analyze markets, strategies, and allocations e.g. long-only and long-short equity hedge funds, to create conviction in allocations, support continues underwriting, and landscape new investment areas of focus.


• Portfolio construction. Support the investment team in portfolio construction, risk budgeting, and factor analysis to uncover opportunities and challenges.


• Market and portfolio insights. Conduct data-driven research to identify dislocations and their drivers, and to understand how market regimes and macro drivers bear on managers' alpha cycles, surfacing opportunities and headwinds to the investment team in a timely way.


• AI and unstructured data enablers. Apply AI/ML to structured and unstructured manager information and contribute to building agents to enhance and augment the department’s investment process.


• Tooling and productionization. Develop analytics and applications (e.g. Streamlit apps) that begin as research in response to specific portfolio questions and productionize recurring work, so it is documented and version controlled. Contribute to the department's shared libraries, documentation and analytical standards.

What qualifications or skills should you possess?

• Advanced degree (master’s or PhD preferred) in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Financial Engineering or Economics.


• Relevant experience in quantitative research and analysis, ideally applied to equities and/or manager/fund analysis; experience with the assessment of external managers is an advantage.


• Strong expertise in data integration for investment analysis and in quantitative portfolio construction, risk modelling and performance attribution.


• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with strong data-visualization skills; familiarity with Databricks or similar, cloud/lakehouse workflows, Git-based development and modern AI/ML and LLM tooling is a plus.


• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to understand and cater to the needs of portfolio managers and analysts, and to translate quantitative results into actionable investment insight.

Work at the Point of Impact
We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.
 
Flexibility at GIC
At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection.  At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves.  Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.
 
We are an equal opportunity employer
As an employer, we passionately believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of GIC teams to drive competitive performance. An inclusive environment yields exceptional contribution.
 
Compensation
Our compensation philosophy reflects several principles. We strive to provide a competitive compensation package to attract and retain talent globally. We pay for performance, and reward sustainable results.
 
Total pay for this position comprises base pay and bonus. The anticipated base salary range for this role is between $200,000 and $280,000.  Bonuses, which may form a meaningful proportion of the total pay package, are determined based on company and individual performance.
 
Learn more about our External Managers Department here: https://gic.careers/departments/external-managers-department/