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Quantitative Analyst – Systematic Japanese Equities

A hands-on research role in a newly formed semi-systematic equity pod in Hong Kong, covering the Japanese market. It sits beside a senior portfolio manager, quant developers and fundamental analysts inside Millennium's multi-manager platform.

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.

Prototype and test mid-frequency alpha signals from market, fundamental and alternative datasets
Backtest ideas and turn the survivors into implementable strategies
Run portfolio construction and optimisation experiments with the quant developers
Produce risk and performance attribution for the live book
Build small AI-assisted tools that speed up the research loop

What they ask for

Required

Python
Alpha signal research and backtesting
SQL and time-series databases
Algorithms, data structures and concurrency
Git, unit testing and CI/CD habits
Handling large market datasets
1-3 years of cash equities research in Asia

Preferred

Knowledge of the Japanese market
Clear communication with traders and PMs
Machine learning and AI research tooling

Education: First-class bachelor's or master's in maths, physics, quantitative finance, statistics or a related field
Experience: 1-3 years of cash equity strategy research and trading in Asian markets
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Build a Python backtest of a simple equity signal with realistic costs and report its out-of-sample decay
Learn mean-variance portfolio construction and run it on a Japanese equity universe
Practise SQL on a time-series or column store with market data
Write a short attribution report splitting returns into factor and specific parts

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