Quant jobs / HKEX

Associate - Index

This HKEX data role supports index research, backtesting and rebalancing. It builds reliable market and financial datasets and tools used by the exchange’s growing index business.

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.

Clean and organise market, reference and financial datasets.
Implement checks for inconsistent or missing index inputs.
Build data-processing tools for backtests and review cycles.
Coordinate fixes with research teams and data suppliers.

What they ask for

Required

Financial-data knowledge
Data cleaning and transformation
Python
SQL
VBA and Excel
English, Cantonese and Mandarin

Preferred

Hong Kong and mainland equity-market exposure

Education: Relevant university qualification or equivalent preparation.
Experience: At least three years in financial data, index services or related work.
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
VBA
Excel
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Build a point-in-time dataset for an index backtest.
Test how corporate actions affect index input data.
Automate data validation in Python and SQL.

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with HKEX and doesn’t handle applications.