Quant jobs / Société Générale

Junior Quantitative Advisor – Quantitative Investment Strategies

A junior front-office quant role in the bank's applied research and development team in Montreal. It supports the systematic strategies on the bank's quantitative investment strategies platform and the tools around them.

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.

Help maintain systematic strategies on the QIS platform
Handle daily production: calculations, rebalances, reports and data checks
Build monitoring and diagnostic tools to catch errors early
Build reusable tools and automate data flows
Document models, methods and controls

What they ask for

Required

Programming
Strong analytical skills
Quantitative analysis
Systematic strategy knowledge
Data quality checks
Documentation
Intellectual curiosity

Education: Not stated
Experience: Junior quant professional; exact years not stated
Markets: multi-asset

How to prepare

Build a rules-based strategy such as a volatility-target or trend index and rebalance it daily
Learn how QIS and index products are structured and priced
Write automated data-quality and exception checks around a production process
Practise building reusable Python libraries with tests and clear documentation
Study portfolio construction basics: rebalancing, costs and risk contribution

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