Senior Quant Analyst

About AXA Hong Kong and Macau

AXA Hong Kong and Macau is a member of the AXA Group, a leading global insurer with presence in 52 markets and serving 92 million customers worldwide. Our purpose is to act for human progress by protecting what matters.

As one of the most diversified insurers in Hong Kong, we offer integrated solutions across Life, Health and General Insurance. We are the largest General Insurance provider and a major Health and Employee Benefits provider. Our aim is to not only be the insurer to provide comprehensive protection to our customers, but also a holistic partner to the individuals, businesses and community we serve. At the core of our service commitment is continuous product & service innovation and customer experience enrichment, which is achieved through actively listening to our customers' needs and leveraging and investing in technology and digital transformation.

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AXA is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to promoting Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity, respect, and where individual differences are valued. We welcome and treasure diverse profiles to join our big family, and to build an inclusive culture together which allows everyone to maximise their personal potential.

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Responsibilities:

Within the investment department, work closely with the CIO and a team of investment & ALM experts and financial engineers to design quantitative solutions for the management of AXA HK's investment portfolios and balance sheet. The job holder will have exposure to public equity & debt strategies, alternatives & derivative strategies (both systematic and tactical).

• Participate in the design and implementation of investment strategies (both systematic and tactical).
• Provide analysis of investment strategies and assess potential balance sheet impacts (across all relevant dimensions incl. Solvency, Risk, Accounting, Liquidity, etc.).
• Develop and maintain code-based quantitative solutions.
• Support and implement best practices for tech integration workloads.
• Enhance & automate data analytics & reporting systems.

Qualifications:

• Degree holder from a reputable university, ideally with specialization in finance with quantitative elements and/or qualified/studying towards industry standard financial examinations.
• Ideally 3+ years working experience in investment or insurance sectors with a major financial institution, but all highly motivated and ambitious candidates with the right qualifications are welcome.
• Excellent quantitative finance skills are a must.
• Excellent and demonstrable coding experience is strongly preferred.
• Prior exposure to Liability Driven Investment and experience operating in an institutional finance context is strongly preferred.
• Experience using financial information systems (e.g. Bloomberg) is preferred.
• Fluent English verbal and written.