About VRGL

VRGL is a high-growth software and data analytics company serving the wealth management industry. Its products and services revolutionize the way RIAs and wealth managers attract and grow revenue through client acquisition by quantitatively assessing a client’s current investment portfolio with where it could be if they transitioned to a new wealth management organization. This immediate transparency allows financial advisors, wealth managers and anyone with brokerage and custodial statements to instantly extract data and quantify what a change means to them. Through VRGL’s “5 Pillars,” a financial advisor can quickly help a prospective client identify the advantage of a switch. No more steak dinners and golf outings over years to develop a relationship, go straight to the heart of why they are talking to you. Value Add.

Position: Quantitative Analyst

We are developing analytics code to support the evaluating investment portfolio managers for the benefit of individual investors. The role will be split between developing insightful, actionable, and innovative analytics, workflow automation and data integrity testing so that we can deliver a hi-quality product.

Responsibilities

Portfolio Analytics

• • Performance, including attribution
  • Exposure aggregation
  • Risk assessment and decomposition
  • Scenario analysis
  • Pricing / Valuation models for securities and derivatives

     

• Alternative Data Research
  • Identifying sources of data to support market demand analytics
  • Validating application of data to support market demanded analytics

     

• Fund Analysis
  • Compiling data on non-security-investments (e.g., ETFs, mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity)

     

• Analytics Operations
  • Handling new portfolio data formats
  • New investments
  • New sources of data

     

• Quality Control – making sure we know about issues before the client does
  • Data integrity testing
  • Analytics data completeness
  • Automation of testing and alerts

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's in Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science or related academic degree
• 2+ years of experience working within an Investment Bank, Asset Manager, FinTech or Risk Services provider
• 2+ years programming experience, Python is a plus
• Experience working with portfolio analytics solutions (MSCI Barra, Axioma, Northfield, etc.,)
• Interested in data science (machine learning & natural language processing)

VRGL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind:

VRGL does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service or other non-merit factor.