Base and Precious Metals quant analyst

ROLE OVERVIEW

Balyasny Asset Management is looking for an experienced Base and Precious Metals Quant Analyst to work in a Commodities Trading team inBalyasny. This is an excellent opportunity to work on cutting-edge research at a leading hedge fund, offering hands-on experience at the intersection of investing and data analysis.

We are looking for an analyst with deep quantamental experience in the base and precious markets, as we are looking to actively trade these products. Experience in both service providers and buyside is a good mix of fundamental understanding and bridging it across to actionable trade ideas.

Deep networks within the sellside and buyside is also required given these sources of information will be relied on for market colour.

RESPONSIBILITIES include, but are not limited to:

• Quantitative work that involves backtesting methodology and statistical concepts (z-scores, percentiles)
• Data onboarding and data cleaning
• Idea generation based on Macro and Micro data related to commodities (familiar with rates, FX, inventory, premium and alternative data)
• Bringing in new tested sets of data that we are not currently utilizing in our framework
• Portfolio construction and risk management

Job Requirements include:

• Minimum 7 years of experience conducting fundamental and quantitative analysis in base and precious metals markets
• Minimum 7 years of experience in utilising Python to backtest and analyse quantamental strategies
• Minimum 7 years of experience building supply and demand models across base and PGM metals with an ability to backtest the balance output into tradeable signals