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Purpose of role:

• To perform an end-to-end fund accounting role as part of the Collective Investment Schemes or Segregated Fund Accounting team. This role has a strong client reporting focus.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Processing and setting up of audit, trustee, custody, and management fees.
• Ensuring Variation Margin is processed correctly and matches the Clearing House Statement daily.
• Ensure capturing / processing of all 3rd Party duplication trades to the accounting system timeously and accurately (ensure they match the third-party valuation reports).
• Ability to manage client cash flows (subscriptions and redemptions) and ensure units in issue reconcile to Transfer Agency.
• Pricing of funds within the Collective Investment Scheme, i.e. Daily unitisation and ensuring the valuation of financial instruments are in line with the funds’ performance e.g. equities, bonds, and derivatives.
• Understand how total fund performance is calculated and impacted with each entry captured.
• Monitor and perform income distribution calculations for each fund class.
• Understand tolerance level checking against a benchmark and are familiar with what is deemed as an unacceptable asset and NAV fund price variance.
• Responsible for running, checking and sending of client reports daily and monthly.
• Handling queries efficiently to ensure resolution of both internal and external client queries (in conjunction with the Client Delivery team).
• Ensure appropriate controls are in place to mitigate risk.
• Supporting the management and co-ordination of team deliverables relating to projects and new client take-on’s.

Required experience:

• Relevant Fund Accounting (Collective Investment Schemes and/ or Segregated) experience of at least 2-5 years is essential.
• Relevant exposure to Investment reporting systems.
• Strong Excel skills.

Required Qualifications:

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification(s) required (BCom Finance / Accounting / Investments).

Key competencies:

• Self-starter who is willing to take on responsibility for a wide array of tasks.
• Highly methodical.
• Ability to work under limited supervision.
• Positive team player.
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Client orientated and able to see the bigger picture.

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Purpose of role:

• Prescient Fund Services is looking to grow their Alternative Administration team due to excellent growth within the Hedge Fund market. You will join a growing team of Fund Accountants and play a key role in supporting this exceptional growth. Alternative Administration is part of the Prescient Fund Services team, a technology led leading Fund Services Administration provider.

Duties and responsibilities:

• The Hedge Fund Accountant is to be an end to end, full ownership fund accountant specialising in alternative products, including Hedge Funds (regulated and segregated), private equity and other illiquid structures, performing the very best in alternative administration.
• Perform daily reconciliations which assist with the final NAV process daily, including trade, cash, positions, and overall NAV reconciliations.
• Perform full end to end accounting and administration services in calculating Net Asset Values of fund structures, including management accounts, NAV based fee calculators.
• Complete daily, weekly, and monthly reporting requirements, being Fund Manager reporting and Investor Reporting services.
• Provide end to end services in the daily, weekly, and monthly processes in servicing the funds allocated and their investment managers.
• To be allocated funds, handle changes communicated and to serve as backups to your colleagues, including embracing any system or process changes rolled out to you in your end-to-end servicing of your assigned clients.

Required experience:

• Relevant experience of at least 2- 3 years in a financial services administration/fund accounting role with exposure to Hedge Funds is essential.
• Strong computer skills, specifically Excel, are a must.
• Prior experience of working on an Investment Accounting platform advantageous.

Required Qualifications:

• Relevant postgraduate financial qualification (BCom Accounting / Commerce / Finance).

Key competencies:

• Self-starter who is willing to take on responsibility for a wide array of tasks.
• Work in small teams and be responsible for the flow of information, end to end.
• Highly methodical.
• Analytical thinker with problem solving skills.
• A positive team player.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Honesty, integrity and mutual respect for peers.

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Purpose of role:

• To lead, support and strengthen the operational environment at PFS by managing fund and client onboarding, overseeing transitions, driving client-driven changes, and championing process and technology improvements to enable scalable growth.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Lead and support all new client onboardings, terminations, portfolio transitions, fund launches, and structural change.
• Manage end-to-end transition processes, ensuring seamless coordination and minimal disruption to operations.
• Drive fund setup processes, including fee calculations and NAV reconciliation book development.
• Identify, scope, and implement system and process enhancements across the implementation and operations value chain.
• Act as a key liaison between Business Development, Operational teams, Project Office and Client.
• Develop and maintain project plans aligned to strategic objectives as set out by the Implementation Manager.
• Use internal and client-facing dashboards and reports to improve transparency and engagement.
• Build strong relationships across internal teams and with clients, ensuring consistent stakeholder alignment.
• Take ownership of project delivery, ensuring timelines and deliverables are consistently met, while taking operation teams’ capacity into account.

Required experience:

• Strong understanding of different fund structures used by Investment Managers, transition management and project management is essential in this role.
• Suited to someone used to working in small, high-performance teams and dealing with multiple projects at once.
• Advanced level experience in Excel and related systems.
• Advanced level of Fund Accounting experience.
• Strong understanding regarding the function of Transfer Agency.

Required Qualifications:

• Relevant BCom / BSc Degree (with a focus placed on either Investments, Finance, Commerce or Data Science).

Key competencies:

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability across multiple tasks and priorities.
• Highly organised, with excellent time and workload management skills.
• Team-oriented with a positive, collaborative approach.
• Resilient under pressure, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities.
• Analytical and solution-oriented mindset.
• Honest, respectful, and culturally sensitive in all interactions.
   

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Purpose of role:

• Our vision is to be our customers' first and most trusted partner and have the ability to provide strategic, operational, customizable, creative, effective and professional legal and risk mitigation to the Prescient Group.
• This role will be responsible for providing advanced or specialist legal technical support primarily to the asset management and stockbroking business in the Group and provide technical support to the Head of Governance in companywide projects, risk management and other initiatives as required.
• The successful candidate will also be responsible for effective management, integration and use of digital platforms and provide administrative and project support within the governance department.

Duties and responsibilities:

Strategic and Operational delivery:

• Providing effective and efficient legal input and guidance to the business, primarily the business of investment management and stockbroking.
• Working proactively with the operational teams of the business to ensure strategy and goals of the business as a client.
• Assisting and working closely with the various operational teams within the business units in achieving common strategy and goals.
• Negotiation and communication with internal and external clients on complex legal issues & quickly handle unanticipated matters or situations.
• Assisting with effective management and implementation of Governance policies and principles for all Prescient Group entities.

Risk Management Support Function:

• Assist the Head of Governance, including the Internal Audit function as and when required/requested, to:
• Develop and or maintain effective risk management controls and systems.
• Assist in rolling out and integrating legal, risk and or internal audit recommendations.
• Assist in training initiatives across the group, both locally and foreign.
• Assist in rolling out and integrating legal, risk and or internal audit recommendations.
• Evaluate and keep existing policies and procedures in line with regulatory changes and requirements and manage the policy register.

Assist and work closely with the Head of Governance to:

• Provide input and assist with oversight to all areas of Risk and Internal Audit across the Prescient Group. Risk management and Internal audit are important control facets that aim to ensure Prescient commercially address uncertainty and maintains a robust control environment.
• Roll out risk management initiatives and identification of types of risks (business, financial, legal, regulatory and security.)
• You will identify potential threats and assist in creating plans to prevent and mitigate problems.
• Ensure effective and proactive legal advice is provided to all internal and external clients and stakeholders.
• Aid where required on projects and or new initiatives.
• Establish excellent client relationships by providing high quality service to all stakeholders.
• Working proactively with the operational teams of the business to ensure strategy and goals of the business as a client.
• Negotiation and communication with internal and external clients on complex legal issues (quickly handle unanticipated counterproposals. Communicating means being able to describe legal risks and implications clearly, and understanding what the business wants and accurately reflecting that in a contract).
• Assisting with effective management and implementation of contract management of all Prescient Group entities.

Regulatory Advisor to the business (general):

• Proactive analysing, advice and guidance to the business and Head of Governance on regulatory legislation applicable to the business, including but not limited to FMA, CISCA, EMIR, MIFID, FAIS, COFi, OTC Derivative Markets, Private Equity, Data Protection.
• Proactive research and communication to the business (where applicable & possible).
• Assisting with analysing corporate policies and practices where needed for adherence to laws and regulations.
• Proactive managing of legal risks and reporting of such risks to the Head of Governance.
• Providing labour law advice and support to the Head of Talent and human resources department on employment related matters from time to time.
• Regulatory Advisor to the Asset Management Business, including but not limited to:
• Legal advice and sign off on transactions and related documentation in respect of inter alia:
• Structured Debt transactions; Common Terms Agreements, Senior Debt Agreements, Mezzanine Debt Agreements, Guarantees, Indemnities, Suretyships, Bonds; Listed debt programme memorandums; and Securitization Structures; and provide sound recommendations regarding structuring of transactions;
• Swaps and Derivative transaction documentation and confirmations, GMRA and SLA documentation.
• General / commercial legal advice and opinions as requested.
• Institutional: Drafting and review of institutional agreements, investment management agreements and third-party administration agreements.
• Transactional: Drafting and reviewing of transactional documents, i.e., Master Broker agreements, ISDA’s, GMLA’s.
• Advising on on-going institutional counterparty requirements.
• Advising on corporate actions and corporate compliance.
• Provide guidance where required on regulatory compliance matters (i.e. investment compliance) as well as relating to investment, master and broker agreements.
• Infrastructure & Credit: Assisting with governance on Infrastructure Debt Fund Trusts.
• Managing external consultants and providers of Infrastructure Debt Fund arrangements and working closely with external attorneys and consultants.
• Managing external attorneys and consultant costs in relation to Infrastructure Debt Fund transactions.
• Working closely with and assisting the Head of Infrastructure as needed.
• Drafting legal opinions as required.
• Provide training to more junior staff in the business and the governance team.
• Regulatory Advisor to the Stockbroking Business, including but not limited to:
• Drafting, vetting, and advising on Broker Agreement.
• Drafting vetting and advising on service providers and suppliers.
• Providing proactive advice and guidance on regulatory compliance applicable to the stockbroking environment.
• Providing proactive assistance and guidance to the COO and Risk and Compliance manager on stockbroking related matters.
• Analysing new legislation and advising the COO and Risk and Compliance manager on corporate policies and practices to ensure adherence.
• Drafting legal opinions.

General responsibilities:

• Assisting the Head of Governance and Operations Specialist in embedding and efficient use of digital platforms.
• Actively managing legal risks in the business and swiftly reporting on these to the Head of Governance.
• Responsible for arranging b-annual written activity reports for the Board Meetings.
• Legal risk management reporting to the Head of Governance and Information Officer where required and appropriate.
• Managing and advising the company on matters such as legal risks, fraud risks, compliance with regulations and data governance.
• Resource to and assist Head of Governance in companywide projects and any other legal matter as required.
• Responsible for monthly written activity reports and face-to-face feedback sessions with COO of PIM and PSEC.
• To be a trusted and reliable partner to the business as a whole, supporting them in a positive, pro-active manner.
• Establish excellent client relationships by providing high quality service to all stakeholders.
• Providing monthly feedback to the Head of Governance on matters to be noted at the Group Operations Exco.

Required experience:

• Admitted Attorney.
• Min of 6 - 8 years’ experience as a legal advisor in the asset management and stockbroking environments, with experience or exposure to the risk and compliance environment.
• Risk management and knowledge of risk assessments and control implementation will be an advantage.
• Strong technical and legislative knowledge, including but not limited to: CISCA, FAIS, Company Act, COFI, Financial Regulations Act, POPIA, GDPR, FMA, EMIR, MIFID, OTC Derivative Markets.
• Technical and legislative knowledge related to the stockbroking and associated Rules and Regulations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Key competencies:

• Strong ability to work independently under pressure and with appropriate urgency, excellent follow-up habits.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, able to present information in a clear, concise manner.
• Able to build and maintain positive working relationships (internally and externally).
• Proven success at collaborating to resolve issues, improve efficiency, and foster clear communication channels.
• Work style characterized by high level of precision and attention to detail.
• Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing business priorities.
• Positive team player.
• High levels of integrity and honesty.
• Self-starter / Work with little or no supervision.
• Time Management (to prioritize issues and problems logically) / multitasker.
• Highly methodical.
• Excellent Negotiation skills.
• Discretion, diplomacy and tact.
• Ability to perceive, interpret and translate information (stimuli) in order to competently perform tasks at various levels of complexity with the organization.
• Ability to understand the big picture in which the business is operating, the inter-play between the different components of our specific business. This includes the understanding of commercial and financial principles.

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Purpose of role:

• The Performance Analyst plays a critical supporting role to the Investment team by maintaining and developing the performance systems and databases. This includes ensuring the accuracy and integrity of performance calculations and attribution analysis across all funds, classes, benchmarks, and composites. In addition to performance and attribution responsibilities, the role requires close collaboration with various stakeholders, including the Client Solutions and Business Development teams, to support reporting, client servicing, and strategic initiatives across the business.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Maintain the existing database and assist in the development of a new performance system. R coding skills essential.
• Support the Investment team with accurate performance and risk and attribution calculations. Provide efficient and effective investment risk management and performance attribution services to the investment team.
• Provide meaningful risk analysis and input, and sound data analytics, to support and add value to portfolio managers and investment analysts.
• Play a key role in ensuring automation of performance processes and reporting.
• Performance monitoring and reporting:
• Full involvement in the performance cycle.
• Responsible for daily and monthly performance procedure.
• Compile daily and monthly performance reporting.
• Check performance data base monthly.
• Ensure updates for regular performance charts are completed soon after month-end (Risk and return database).
• Compile retail performance comparisons on monthly basis (Profile, Morningstar, Bloomberg data).
• GIPS:
• Maintain GIPS composites and mandate analysis.
• Ensures all relevant data is accurate, complete, and up to date to support the annual verification process.
• Ensure all new/exiting clients are correctly noted in admin system.
• Review GIPS requirements on ongoing basis and implement in process and maintain the GIPS policy.
• Facilitate and be the main point of contact for the GIPS audit.
• Chair the GIPS committee.
• Join the ASISA GIPS working group.
• Review all survey data compiled and distributed by the business development analyst for submission to survey providers as required as well as regulator audits of surveys.
• Idea generation relating to Performance Analysis function as well as continuously evaluating and enhancing performance function.
• Keep abreast of developments in the Investment Risk Management, Data Analytics and related spaces to enable continuing enhancements to risk and performance analyses and processes.
• Providing support to portfolio managers in terms of client communication.
• Ensure investment and strategy knowledge is current by attending relevant internal investment team meetings and keeping up to speed with industry news.
• Ad hoc quantitative / risk-return queries.
• Responsible for producing accurate performance data interacting with appropriate individuals/groups to resolve errors.
• Ensures performance data has been represented in a complete and accurate manner within senior management reports, third-party databases, sales materials and regulatory findings.
• Custodian of performance reporting and analytics at Prescient Investment Management.
• Own the valuation policy, ensuring it remains current and aligned with industry best practices. Play an active role in the Valuations Committee—either as a contributing member or by leading its activities and initiatives.

Required experience:

• 2-4 years + experience in a performance analyst role.
• Understanding of operational workflow, performance and attribution methodologies and portfolio risk statistics.
• An excellent understanding of investment strategies, financial instruments, and markets.
• R coding ability essential. Solid coding skills and good knowledge of ideally R, or Python.
• Strong knowledge and use of databases (i.e. SQL queries and scripting or other Data Warehouse offerings) is an essential.

Required Qualifications:

• Relevant Honours/ Master’s Degree (Financial mathematics, Actuarial, Stats orientation).
• CFA Charter holder or CFA studies preferred.
• Willingness to study CIPM.

Key competencies:

• Accuracy and meticulous attention to detail.
• Positive, pro-active team player. Able to work well in a team environment.
• Highly organised with good time management skills.
• Able to handle stress well.
• Self-driven.
• Excellent knowledge of and exposure to the Financial Services Industry with a solid understanding of Regulations.
• Proven organisational skills and ability to handle high volumes with tight deadlines.
• Analytical.

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Purpose of role:

• The DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and automation pipelines that support the development, deployment, and monitoring of software and data solutions. This role is critical in enabling continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), improving system reliability, and ensuring scalable, secure, and efficient operations across the engineering and data science teams.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for software and data products.
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Define and enforce Git branching strategies and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with developers, data engineers, and ML engineers to streamline deployments.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and security using observability tools.
• Automate repetitive tasks and improve operational efficiency.
• Support containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Ensure compliance with security and governance standards.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across teams.

Required experience:

• 3–5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or related role.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack). Exposure to data engineering or ML deployment environments is a plus.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) or DevOps tools are advantageous.
• Relevant training or certification in CI/CD, AWS ECS, or infrastructure automation is a plus.

Key competencies:

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Passion for automation, scalability, and continuous improvement.

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Purpose of role:

• The candidate will be part of the Credit team responsible for the Prescient Credit funds. To utilise PIM credit philosophy process by employing quantitative analysis in asset selection, pricing and managing of credit portfolio.
• The person will be responsible for credit research & credit portfolio risk analysis. An exciting position which will require you keep abreast of the latest developments and trends in the market and work toward driving efficiencies within the team and research processes. 
• The role includes extending and enhancing the functionality of PRIME, the Portfolio Research and Investment Management Engine. 
• Solid experience managing and analysing large amounts of data is a must. The person will need to follow a collaborative team approach that adheres to the Prescient value framework.

Duties and responsibilities:
Key Objective

• The key objective is the development of analytics tools and strategies, as well as the improvement and extension of PRIME for the Credit Funds.

Quantitative Analysis:

• Assist in defining the PRIME framework and incorporate current analytics tools and reporting.
• Develop processes and analytics tools to monitor model and portfolio performance and accuracy.
• Research and develop models and techniques.
• Document research, processes, and model validation.

Credit Research and Analysis:

• Apply established models to compute default probability scores. An analyst would be required to make an analytical argument on the change thereto over time, highlight downside risks for the foreseeable future, and rank & compare to industry peers.
• Use PIM sector-specific financial scorecards to analyse the creditworthiness of companies and their sub-factor drivers of the credit score, incorporating ESG analysis.
• Perform in-depth analysis and research to assess and monitor the creditworthiness of borrowers/issuers over the term of the exposure.
• Understand market dynamics (e.g., credit supply/demand) and company fundamentals influencing PIM’s credit investments.

Credit Management:

• Monitor the risk-adjusted return of the credit universe, build and oversee portfolio optimization models, and make recommendations to enhance credit portfolio performance.
• Engage in counterparty interactions as part of the role.
• Assess credit opportunities, including exposure to assets in Infrastructure Funds (monitoring and new opportunities).

Investment Analysis:

• Originate debt investments via new and existing borrowers, liaising with bond issuers, DCM teams, arrangers, and rating agencies.
• Provide input into the development of broader responsible investment policies, ESG methodologies, and impact strategies.

Credit Process Development and Advancement:

• Validate investment models and monitor portfolio performance and accuracy.
• Contribute to research and development of new models and techniques.
• Document research, processes, and model validation.
• Ensure the accuracy and currency of information used in the process.

Team Interaction:
The key objective is to work on a collaborative basis, ensuring that the team remains cohesive and successful. The analyst is expected to:

• Follow a collaborative approach aligned with the Prescient value system.
• Be proactive in generating new research and participating in debates.
• Suggest and implement process enhancements to improve/create efficiencies.
• Contribute positively and adopt a solutions-driven mindset.

Required experience:

• University Post Graduate Degree (Science / Engineering / Finance) / Masters.
• CA (SA) with articles will be advantageous [Financial Services / Financial Engineering Group experience].
• CFA / Studying towards CFA; and/or Masters equivalent.
• Advanced Excel skills and model building.
• Prior experience in Private Debt, Hybrid Debt, Project Finance will be advantageous.

Key competencies:

• Ability to generate ideas and think logically.
• Structured work style, attention to detail and accuracy is of the utmost importance.
• Aptitude in decision-making and problem-solving.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, excellent communication skills oral and written.
• Strong ability to manage complex processes and focus on business outcomes in a complex uncertain environment.
• Strong work ethic, self-motivated, driven and results oriented.
• Ability to listen and respond to new ideas, input and diverse perspectives.
• High levels of self-confidence, assertive as well as healthy levels of EQ.
• Must be able to manage workflow on longer-term research projects.
• Energetic problem-solver.
• Ability to demonstrate an advanced degree of technological competence.
• Passionate about investments.

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Purpose of role:

• As a Data Scientist, you’ll be instrumental in shaping the future of systematic investing at the firm. This is a hybrid research-engineering position that blends rigorous quantitative research with practical implementation. You’ll work on sourcing and evaluating alternative datasets, developing bespoke machine learning models for financial markets, and building scalable, production-grade pipelines that power real-time investment signals. These signals directly inform the firm’s portfolio managers and traders, guiding investment decisions across asset classes.
• We are looking for someone who is curious, technically strong, and excited by the challenge of turning complex problems into elegant, data-driven solutions. You should thrive in a collaborative, research-driven environment where innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning are at the core of everything we do.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Design and implement data science strategies that enhance the investment decision-making process.
• Identify, acquire, and evaluate alternative data sources that may provide predictive insights into financial markets.
• Develop bespoke machine learning algorithms tailored to financial use cases, such as risk forecasting, sentiment analysis, and market regime detection.
• Build, test, and deploy end-to-end data and model pipelines that operate reliably at scale.
• Collaborate closely with portfolio managers, quantitative analysts, and software engineers to ensure alignment between data science outputs and investment goals.
• Contribute to the development of internal libraries, tooling, and infrastructure to streamline data science workflows.
• Stay current with academic and industry research, applying innovative techniques where relevant.

Required experience:

• 1–3 years of experience in a data science or quantitative research role, preferably in finance or another high-impact research domain, or a recently qualified Master’s or PhD graduate.
• Track record of delivering production-ready data science solutions with real-world impact.
• Honours, Masters and/ or PhD level in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Quantitative Finance or similar).
• Financial certification will be advantageous but not required.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong programming experience in Python, with proficiency in software engineering best practices (modular code, testing, version control, etc.).
• Solid understanding of machine learning, statistical modelling and time series analysis.
• Experience with cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and distributed computing frameworks is a plus.
• Familiarity with data infrastructure (e.g., databases, ETL pipelines, containerization, orchestration tools) is highly desirable.
• Use of LLM’s and working with unstructured data is a plus.
• Experience working with unstructured or alternative data (e.g., text, news, satellite, geolocation) is a bonus.

Key competencies:

• Strong programming experience in Python, with proficiency in software engineering best practices (modular code, testing, version control, etc.).
• Solid understanding of machine learning, statistical modelling and time series analysis.
• Experience with cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and distributed computing frameworks is a plus.
• Familiarity with data infrastructure (e.g., databases, ETL pipelines, containerization, orchestration tools) is highly desirable.
• Use of LLM’s and working with unstructured data is a plus.
• Experience working with unstructured or alternative data (e.g., text, news, satellite, geolocation) is a bonus.