Do you have a passion for Financial Markets and developing software solutions?

Exciting, dynamic opportunity available with an innovative Financial Technology company that provides data and process automation solutions to financial investment companies. We need a Junior Quantitative Analyst Developer for our Claremont, Cape Town office.

The role will be expected to:
-Analyse and solve business problems with software
-Drive sales and up-sell opportunities with each client interaction
-Learn and push financial and software knowledge of both team and self
-Extend and maintain existing software solutions
-Analyse and create project specification documents as required conduct new feature analysis and drive the development of the core product.
- Work with clients to identify their data and automaton goals
-Generate and chase leads for new business

Required Experience:
*Junior role - 0 - 2 years experience
*Solving financial business problems using technology
*Exposure to financial calculations and data analysis
*Experience in any of the following -
-Pricing, structuring, analysing or trading financial and investment products
-Financial risk management from the perspective of a financial institution
-Data and/or quantitative analysis in a finance-related context

Required Qualification
* Undergraduate degree in any of these :
- Finance, Actuarial Science, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, Information Systems or Computer Science
- Honours preferred
- Recognised financial qualification if the degree was not finance-related.

Software Development Skills
-Experience working in an object-oriented or functional programming environment
-Experience working with C# highly advantageous
-Design pattern knowledge highly advantageous
-Experience in writing financial calculations, models or algorithms
*Beneficial*
-Any of C#, Java, Python, Scala, JavaScript & Entity Framework highly advantageous
- RDBMS - MSSQL highly advantageous
-CSS & HTML4/5
-PowerBI

Key Competencies, Skills & Attributes
-Strong interest in the financial services sector
-Interest in software development
-Strong analytical skills with immaculate attention to detail
-Safeguards integrity of sensitive client data
-Quick learner
-Comfortable presenting to clients
-Good time management
-Able to work under pressure
-Understands industry trends
-Communicates clearly and politely, both verbally and in writing
-Able to work independently but also be a team player
-Uses initiative, is pro-active and possesses problem-solving skills
-Willing to put in extra hours when needed