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We are looking for a VP-Sr. Quant Research and Portfolio Analyst to join Templeton Global Investments, in Singapore.

What is the VP-Sr. Quant Research and Portfolio Analyst responsible for?

The VP-Sr. Quant Research and Portfolio Analyst will be highly engaged with the investment managers, collaborating with them across a range of projects involving:

• Investment idea generation, research, portfolio selection, portfolio construction, portfolio implementation, risk management, back-testing of rules-based investment and ML-based strategies, among other areas.

• This is a high impact role as the VP-Sr. Quant Research and Portfolio Analyst will be able to influence how our investors make investment decisions.

• In addition to the potential of having a direct impact on the investment performance of existing products, the VP-Sr. Quant Research and Portfolio Analyst will also participate in the potential creation of new investment products.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of this position?

• Independently conducting rigorous quantitative research to evaluate current approaches and develop new strategies for investment idea generation, stock selection, portfolio construction/management, portfolio implementation, and risk management with the ultimate goal of improving investor outcomes.

• Developing quantitatively driven solutions that provide portfolio managers greater actionable insight into the drivers of returns/risks in their portfolios.

• Working closely with fundamental portfolio managers and analysts across the EME group to help them leverage insights from quantitative models, techniques, and solutions.

• Developing, refining, & back-testing rules-based or quantitative investment strategies.

• Developing and eventually enhancing the toolkit used to easily perform the above functions

• Communicating insights and analysis results to key stakeholders

• Keeping abreast of industry and academic research and identify new research ideas

• Formulate a plan to break down a high-level directive or a project into its constituent parts. Be able to use the scientific process to articulate an analysis plan

• Collect, filter, and verify data required for research, for example, fundamental financial valuation, factor exposures, expected risks, benchmark & portfolio weights, etc

• Write code in Python to analyze and extract insights from data that can be stringed together to form a coherent story about why an investment decision, action, or policy is optimal / sub-optimal

• Leverage Natural Language Processing to extract insights from textual dataset

• Interpret and analyze the analysis results with a critical mind considering all possible reasons for why the conclusions of the analysis may be flawed or incorrect (biases in data, incorrect assumptions, mishandling of data, treatment of outliers and missing data, etc.)

• Communicate the results or insights extracted from an analysis project as well as be able to defend why the analysis approach/results make sense and what the associated tradeoffs are.

What qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful?

• Master's degree or higher in a quantitative discipline like Statistics, Applied Math, Computer Science, or Engineering.

• Out of the box thinkers with proven track record of exceptional performance.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in a quantitative investment management firm, asset manager, or index provider doing quantitative research and/or product back-testing.

• Understanding of quantitative investment process / factor investing highly desirable.

• Familiarity with FactSet, Bloomberg or Refinitiv.

• Strong understanding of equity markets, including drivers of return, risk control, and portfolio construction techniques.

• Familiarity with modern portfolio theory.

• Experience with machine learning (in particular xgboost, neural networks), statistical hypothesis testing, natural language processing and data mining methods.

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and programming proficiency in Python/R and SQL are essential.

• Experience with sklearn package.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills in English is essential.

• Meticulous and detail-oriented.

• Ability to multitask and interact with Senior investment personnel.

• Self-started and ability to work independently

• CFA charterholder.

What makes Franklin Templeton unique?

In addition to the dynamic and professional environment at Franklin Templeton, we strive to ensure that our employees have access to a competitive and valuable set of Total Rewards-the mix of both monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to you in recognition for your time, talents, efforts, and results. We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and supporting our communities. An emphasis on corporate citizenship is embedded in our culture and values, and is an important element of how we achieve success.

We are also committed to your learning and development with resources focused around Experience, Exposure, and Education, to help you achieve your professional development goals. Take some time to meet some of our people, and see what it means to say, "I AM Franklin Templeton."

Franklin Templeton Investments values diversity in its workforce and welcomes employees from different backgrounds, generations, capabilities, cultural identification, sexual orientations, and gender expression, in addition to other attributes that contribute to a truly diverse and inclusive community.

We regret that only short-listed candidates will be notified.