Quantitative Analyst
| Posting date: | 18 January 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, WC2R 0QS |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00270903 |
Summary
Join us as a Quantitative Analyst
- Become part of a highly collaborative team, playing a key role in delivering best-in-class investment outcomes for our clients
- Your work will be vital in helping us develop potential investable products, which will benefit our ultra-high net worth clients
- You’ll have the chance to conduct independent research into new potential quantitative models, building on your existing skill sets
What you'll do
As a Quantitative Analyst within the Asset Allocation Team, you’ll use your financial and quantitative expertise to maintain existing and build new models to continually enhance our investment decision-making capabilities.
You’ll also be:
- Producing research and trading ideas for tactical asset allocation and researching other ways of enhancing portfolio returns
- Enhancing expected returns forecasts, suggesting or modifying assets for inclusion and backtesting and calculating risk contributions of changes to the current strategic asset allocation
- Developing and maintaining quantitative tools that support portfolio construction and investment decision-making
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with strong financial and macroeconomic knowledge, ideally with experience in multi-asset research and/or portfolio construction. Proficiency in Python for data analysis and quantitative modelling is also essential.
You’ll also need:
- Experience or working knowledge of capital market assumption modelling
- Practical experience with quantitative Python libraries (e.g pandas, NumPy, statsmodels, SciPy and scikit-learn)
- A solid understanding of private banking across wealth segments with awareness of relevant regulatory frameworks