Summary: Growing financial research software company seeks outstanding maths skills, an outstanding undergraduate degree and, ideally, PhD. London, to £highly competitive.

Working with a senior fund manager, you will be assisting in the research and coding of quantative models, validating data and supporting the team - this will evolve into quantative research and development.

You MUST have an outstanding academic background. You are most likely to have a PhD (or certainly have been considering a PhD after achieving top marks in your undergraduate degree and A levels) with a 1st Class Hons from only the very best universities in subjects such as Statistics, Applied Physics, Applied Maths or Financial Maths. Coupled with all A's at A level, you will have some finance knowledge (preferably commercial experience at a bank or hedge fund but they will consider academic experience or a strong personal interest), and have some programming experience in modern programming languages. Any experience of modelling and financial analysis with a good background in calculus and statistics will be a real plus.

Keywords: PhD, 1st, all A's, Maths, Physics, Statistics, Finance, London, Quant.

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