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Senior Data Scientist – Fundamental Corporate Data

A senior individual-contributor role in CFM's corporate data team, turning company fundamentals into point-in-time datasets, features and signals for alpha researchers. It owns the data platform and vendor relationships behind that work.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Own the curated fundamental data pipelines and clean up legacy code
Design features from financial statements, estimates and corporate actions
Set point-in-time, revision and survivorship-bias standards
Manage vendors from evaluation to escalation
Propose and validate new signals with researchers

What they ask for

Required

Master's or PhD in a quantitative discipline
10+ years in quantitative finance or financial data, 5+ as a data scientist
Fundamental data expertise
Expert Python and SQL
Cloud and data engineering (preferably AWS)
Software engineering practice
Professional English

Education: Master's or PhD in maths, statistics, computer science, engineering, econometrics or finance
Experience: 10+ years in quantitative finance or financial data, including 5+ as a data scientist
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
AWS
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Build a point-in-time fundamentals dataset from public filings and show the effect of look-ahead bias
Study accounting data quirks: restatements, reporting lags and corporate actions
Learn symbology and entity mapping across securities and companies
Engineer features from fundamentals and test their stability by region and time
Practise data lineage and testing on a pipeline using SQL and Python

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