Job Title: Data Science & Quants Consultant and Trainer – Director Level
Location: Central, Hong Kong
Company / Vacancy Background
Pan-Asia Recruitment Executive Search firm, established 12+ years, seeking experienced Trading, Data Science & Quants Recruitment/ Executive Search Consultants (Banking, Financial Services or IT/ Technology sectors).
We work at all levels, from Associate to Partner levels, AVP to Managing Director, CXO and Board level posts.
Our specialist executive search/ recruitment consultants achieved industry recognition as one of the top Asia based Legal and Compliance Head-hunters (Asia Money Polls 2010 - 2011, 2011 - 2012).
We were voted by the readership of several well-known industry publications as the 2017 - 2018, Hong Kong's Most Reliable Recruitment Partner, (Mediazone HK Awards).
Title: Data Science & Quants Consulting & Training Director, Data Science & Quants Desk – Executive Search Consulting & Projects
[Please note this is a Recruitment / Executive Search, and Data Science/ Quants Projects Consultancy role]
Harbridge Partners Limited
Central & Western Area
HARBRIDGE PARTNERS is a boutique, executive search and human capital consultancy firm focused on the Asia Pacific and UK markets. Working on behalf of Clients, we are seeking for a full- time and
The Company
HARBRIDGE PARTNERS is a multi-award winning, successful, specialist boutique executive search recruitment firm and human capital outsourcing consultancy. Founded by ex-banking and legal professionals with over 25+ years industry experience each, we started in 2011 as a specialist recruiter within the Banking, Finance, Legal, GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) and grew coverage to the Pharmaceutical and Technology search sectors due to clients requests.
In Asia, we find Unparalleled Talent and provide bespoke human capital solutions, for a select group of amazing employers and fast-growing firms in the legal, banking, finance, pharmaceuticals and technology markets.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, we currently have offices in Mainland China (Guangzhou), Taipei, Hong Kong and London. Our short-term to medium-term growth plans are to open offices in Shenzhen, Malaysia, Jakarta and Singapore to service the fastest growing cities and markets for our specialist recruitment search sectors, notably the New Tech hubs of the Asia Pacific.
In Hong Kong, we are one of the most established, reputable and specialist Banking and Financial Services EOR, payroll outsourcing and secondment firms for the Banking, Finance and Technology sectors with over 130+ staff.
Following a period of rapid growth, our specialist recruitment teams have expanded into areas outside of Banking, Finance, Legal, Governance, Risk and Compliance, most notably we are focused on growing our IT/ Technology / Quants / Data Science consulting and projects team.
We are looking for a senior, experienced and technically competent Data Science and Quantitative Finance Specialist to execute and implement consultancy projects for our Banking, Finance and Buy-Side Clients.
Experience / Responsibilities:
- Strong Quantitative Finance professional with extensive experience applying mathematical analysis to solving real world problems when working as a Software Developer, Data Scientist, economic modeller, or trading markets quant.
- Possess excellent pure mathematics or mathematical research ability to understand and solve complex financial markets and develop automated trading models for use in bespoke trading and data-driven investment firms.
- Reporting to one of our Founding Managing Partners, as well as our Head of Trading/ Quants Solutions Consultant, as part of the Technology Recruitment and Projects Solutions Division in Hong Kong, under the “Quants Design†Consultancy brand, you will co-lead and build up the APAC Trading, Data Science, Quants consultancy and AI recruitment and projects outsourcing teams.
- You will implement and lead consultancy, and training and solutions development projects either at Client-Site or on-shore/ off-shore at our Hong Kong Offices.
- Ideally coming from industry or currently an experienced “Buy-Side†(particularly Investment Management, P/E, Hedge Funds, and Prop Trading Houses) Data Science or Quantitative Finance expert/ specialist, you should have at least minimum 10- 15+ years experience or be able to demonstrate a very competent and detailed knowledge of Data Science, Quantitative Finance, Sales and Trading, for products like FX, Equities or Fixed Income (including all associated products and assets classes) and have built up your own strong network and relationships of portable clients in the Hong Kong and APAC Buy-Side, Investment Management, P/E and alternative investments industry.
- Over time, you will be responsible to hire, train and manage a multi-lingual team of specialist consultancy and projects outsourcing consultants to service the Hong Kong and APAC Buy-Side.
- Be overall responsible for various recruitment mandates and actual projects assignments.
- Personally execute and be responsible for full 360 degrees research, sourcing, recruitment, sales to closure of senior level career placements (VP up to CXO levels).
- Communicate with management team of clients, networking with candidates, contacts and provide full scope business development activities from cold -calling, warm leads to full account management and post project support/ feedback.
- Proceed with all kinds of necessary communication with candidates, client contacts including interviews, placement offer negotiations, and RFI/RFP drafting, projects management and scope, and negotiations of contracts and terms of business.
- Researching (and teaching team members on research) on your specialized industry, markets mapping, and provide updated industry developments, and information to the company, to the clients and candidates.
- Provide informative career consultation and coaching to different levels of candidates, senior to top level in particular.
- Developing the company brand, yourself and your team(s), as a recognized specialist recruitment firm and search professionals in one of the most competitive, intellectually demanding and financially rewarding sectors and industries.
Requirements:
- University Graduates in any discipline, ideally in Banking and Finance or Mathematics. Applicants with a PhD in Mathematics, Finance or Mathematical Physics are highly sought by our clients for quants and data science projects.
- An industry recognized accreditation or qualification such as the Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF) or similar is highly advantages.
- Minimum 10 -15 years of Full Life Cycle Sales experience in a similar industry.
- High-level research ability, including extensive experience in investigating and analysing highly complex research tasks with strong outcomes focus. Superior research and analytical skills as proven through consistent success in identifying original ideas and solutions to issues not resolved by others.
- Modern development practice such as: Agile/Scrum, JIRA, Source Control via Bitbucket/Github, CICD via VSTS/AzureDevops.
- Conversant in technologies like Python/R, Spark, Spark Streaming, C#
- Platforms/Tools: Datalake Store, Databricks, Snowflake, Streamlit
- Must have strong network and relationships of portable clients in the Hong Kong and APAC Buy-Side, Investment Management, P/E and alternative investments industry (clients lists will be required during the interview process).
- Confident personality, outgoing, with entrepreneurial mindset and excellent communication, spoken and written skills.
- Can demonstrate business and commercial acumen, identify and focus on the priorities.
- Have a good enquiring mind; always thinking ahead and anticipating problems/ solutions.
- Personable, humble, down-to-earth, hungry for success and financial rewards.
- Ability to focus for long periods, with excellent concentration, attention to detail and strong work ethics and high personal integrity.
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills - particularly in spoken and written English is a must.
- Team building, team leading and management, and team-sharing mentality.
[We welcome IANG visa and will sponsor other work visas for exceptionally suitable applicants].
Please send an updated resume in English to our Managing Partner at ec(at)Harbridgepartners(dot)com
Interested in this and other roles? Please send an updated resume in English to CV[@]harbridgepartners[dot]com
Or contact +852 2523 9955 – and ask for Terry Au, Edward Chen, Richard Liu, Cora Pang
Harbridge Partners Limited
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