Quantitative Analyst

TTSTC -Quantitative Analyst/ Senior Quantitative Analyst (00054243)

Organization: TEXAS TREASURY SAFEKEEPING TRUST COMPANY

Primary Location: Texas-Austin

Work Locations: Thomas J Rusk Building 208 East 10th Street 4th floor Austin 78701

Job: Business and Financial Operations

Employee Status: Regular

Schedule: Full-time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time

State Job Code: 1131 1133 1134

Salary Admin Plan: B

Grade: 26 30 32

Salary (Pay Basis): 8,584.00 - 19,107.00 (Monthly)

Number of Openings: 2

Overtime Status: Exempt

Job Posting: Nov 14, 2025, 11:47:42 AM

Closing Date: Dec 3, 2025, 11:59:00 PM

Description

Applications must be filed at

https://capps.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=00054243

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Please note that this job posting can be closed without notice and earlier than the closing date indicated in the posting if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage applicants to submit and complete the application promptly.

Are you ready to grow, make a positive impact? If you are seeking to gain knowledge, build your career, and network among goal-oriented professionals, this is the place for you!

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Our agency workforce is as diverse as the people of Texas we serve. We value our employees and take very seriously our collective commitment to public service.  Personal development opportunities are strongly encouraged through available workshops, teambuilding exercises, and on the job training. We offer flexible scheduling that helps employees maintain a healthy work-life balance.

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About TTSTC

The Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company (TTSTC) is a special-purpose entity that manages, safeguards, and invests public funds and securities belonging to the state of Texas, its agencies and local political subdivisions of the state. TTSTC’s special-purpose entity status provides the Comptroller’s office direct access to specialized investment services and programs enabling the Comptroller to achieve the highest return at the lowest cost to the state.

General description

Join the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company as a Quantitative Analyst or a Senior Quantitative Analyst! Working within the TTSTC in the Risk & Quantitative Analytics (R&QA) area and performs journey or senior- level fundamental investment research and analysis work.

• Investment Analyst II/ Quantitative Analyst
• Investment Analyst IV/ Senior Quantitative Analyst

Work involves sourcing, validating, and reconciling investment data from fund managers, custodians, and internal / external systems. Ensure integrity and accuracy of investment data feeds. Other duties include structuring data sets to support analytics, modelling, and reporting efforts.

• Investment Analyst V/ Senior Quantitative Analyst

Work involves monitoring and operating various risk and investment data systems, improving, and developing risk and reporting tools, improving and developing new quantitative models used in analyzing investment data, and performing quantitative investment analysis for potential and existing investment opportunities. 

Apply today and help the Comptroller's office keep the Texas economy strong.

Work Hours

Agency standard work hours are Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm, 40 hours per week with occasional evening and weekend hours. Hours are subject to change based upon business need or division determination.

This position may be eligible for a flexible/hybrid work schedule if certain conditions are met; working arrangements may change at any time as business necessitates.

Investment Analyst II    $8,584.00 to $8,750.00/ Monthly

Investment Analyst IV   $11,586.00 to $15,791.00/ Monthly

Investment Analyst V    $13,917.00 to $19,107.00/ Monthly

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Investment Analyst II/ IV

·       Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in quantitative discipline (Business Administration, Engineering, Math, Statistics, Econometrics, Finance, Economics, or Computer Science)

·       0-2 years (Investment Analyst II)/ 5 years (Investment Analyst IV) of full-time work experience performing quantitative data analysis or analyzing investment data.

·       General knowledge of risk management principles and practices.

·       Well-versed in analytical and financial applications (e.g. Bloomberg, FactSet, Python, Matlab, VBA, and / or other programming languages (e.g., C , Gauss, Stata, R, C , SAS…etc.)

·       Intermediate to Advanced Excel / Power BI skills.

Investment Analyst V

·       Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in quantitative discipline (Business Administration, Engineering, Math, Statistics, Econometrics, Finance, Economics, or Computer Science)

·       6 years of investment /market related experience resulting in understanding of financial markets

·       Well-versed in analytical and financial applications (e.g. Python, SQL, Matlab, or similar tools)

·       Prior knowledge and/or experience with probabilities, statistics, and empirical analysis

·       Experience managing risk in the context of an investment portfolio with multi-asset classes and using external holdings-based risk management systems

·       General knowledge of risk management principles and practices.

Preferred Qualifications

Investment Analyst II/ IV

·       Master's degree or PhD in quantitative discipline (Business Administration, Engineering, Math, Statistics, Econometrics, Finance, Economics, or Computer Science)

·       Experience using risk systems (MSCI HedgePlatform / RiskManager, MSCI Barra, Aladdin, TruView, etc.).

·       Experience in investment data analytics tools / platforms (Backstop, LPAnalyst, Axioma, MSCI Burgiss, eFront, Venn, etc.)

·       Experience using performance systems (Clearwater, Solovis, State Street system, etc.).

·       Knowledge of index families and benchmarking (MSCI, Bloomberg, S&P Global, HFR Database and IndexScope, Barclays Live, Cambridge, Preqin, etc.).

Investment Analyst V

·       Master's degree or PhD in quantitative discipline (Business Administration, Engineering, Math, Statistics, Econometrics, Finance, Economics, or Computer Science)

·       Experience using risk systems (MSCI HedgePlatform / RiskManager, MSCI Barra, Aladdin, TruView, etc.).

·       Advanced Excel / Power BI

·       Proficiency in Excel, Python, Matlab, VBA, and / or other programming languages (e.g., C , Gauss, Stata, R, C , SAS…etc.).

·       Experience using Financial Data Tools (FactSet, Bloomberg, Rimes)

·       Experience in investment data analytics tools / platforms (Backstop, LPAnalyst, Axioma, MSCI Burgiss, eFront, Venn, etc.)

·       Experience using performance systems (Clearwater, Solovis, State Street system, etc.).

·       Knowledge of index families and benchmarking (MSCI, Bloomberg, S&P Global, HFR Database and IndexScope, Barclays Live, Cambridge, Preqin, etc.)

LICENSES / CERTIFICATIONS

Certification in or working towards certification in one or more of the following:

• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
• Chartered Alternative Investments Analyst (CAIA)
• Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
• Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM)

Investment Analyst II

·       Actively monitors and controls the portfolio’s overall and relative risk by assessing how different factors impact performance, using various risk reports such as asset class exposures, tracking error, Value at Risk (VaR), stress tests, scenario analysis, and liquidity metrics.

·       Provide risk management oversight through quantitative assessment of market exposures through quantitative assessment of market exposures

·       Maintain standardized internal risk reporting

Etc.

Investment Analyst IV

·       Actively monitors and controls the portfolio’s overall and relative risk by assessing how different factors impact performance, using various risk reports such as asset class exposures, tracking error, Value at Risk (VaR), stress tests, scenario analysis, and liquidity metrics.

·       Provide risk management oversight through quantitative assessment of market exposures through quantitative assessment of market exposures

·       Maintain standardized internal risk reporting

·       Evaluate total fund performance attribution and identify sources of active and structural risk.

·       Participate in group discussions regarding potential impacts on portfolios.

·       Performs quantitative due diligence for potential investment opportunities across all asset classes.

Etc.

Investment Analyst V

·       Designs and implements portfolio analytics to monitor the portfolio’s overall and relative risk by assessing how different factors impact performance, using various risk reports such as asset class exposures, tracking error, Value at Risk (VaR), stress tests, scenario analysis, and liquidity metrics.

·       Provide risk management oversight through quantitative assessment of market exposures through quantitative assessment of market exposures

·     Design and implement standardized internal risk reporting

·       Evaluate total fund performance attribution and identify sources of active and structural risk.

Etc.