Data Analyst - L/S Equity

Description Summary

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global, multi-strategy investment firm with $32 billion in assets under management. We are looking for a Data Analyst to work on a L/S Equity Portfolio Manager team in New York on projects related to data analysis, data-driven idea generation and fundamental research.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with Portfolio Manager and team to brainstorm creative uses for data in the investment process
• Identify, ingest, and analyze cutting-edge alternative datasets – including cleaning, organizing, tagging, indexing, etc.
• Conduct independent research on various new datasets and influence actual trading strategies
• Pinpoint trends, correlations, and patterns in complicated data sets to provide custom solutions to management
• Identify and analyze relevant industry metrics, business rational
• Evaluate new coverage opportunities across Consumer, TMT, and/or Industrials sectors
• Building and maintaining detailed models from scratch
• Design, build and maintain data products that enable you to analyze key performance indicators (KPIs)

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience in a data driven or quantitative role
• Strong analytical and data processing skills (Python/SQL)
• Proficient with data ETL (e.g. Airflow, creating and updating databases) and analysis (familiar with libraries like Pandas, NumPy etc.)
• Experience with large datasets a plus
• Experience with cloud architecture (e.g. AWS, Snowflake etc.)
• Knowledge of data visualization tools
• Self-starter, results-driven attitude with great attention to detail, ability to multitask and think outside of the box
• Ability to explain technical concepts (programming/databases/stats) to less technical audiences