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As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has a long tradition of meeting the complex financial needs of a wide range of clients, offering advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 45,000 people. Further information can be found at www.credit-suisse.com. Cultural diversity is essential to our success. As such, we employ people from more than 100 countries. Credit Suisse empowers employees to work openly and respectfully with each other and with clients, ultimately striving to deliver superior results while offering initiatives and programs to assist employees achieve a healthy work-life balance. Position Description: Quantitative Valuation Associate Credit Suisse HOLT, a corporate performance and valuation advisory service in Equities, part of the Investment Banking business seeks a Quantitative Valuation Associate for the Chicago office. HOLT is a premier provider of investment insights tailored to client-specific needs and based on HOLT's proprietary CFROI© performance metric and equity valuation framework. The HOLT team strives to understand client needs across equity, fixed income and derivative asset classes by leveraging its proprietary global database of 20,000 companies. HOLT provides a differentiated service by focusing on data integrity, a cohesive DCF valuation framework, and through its emphasis on economic reality over accounting profit. Key Responsibilities: Principal role will be research designed to advance HOLT's understanding of corporate performance, risk measurement, and valuation within the context of the HOLT's proprietary CFROI© Framework. HOLT's commitment to continuous model improvement leaves a wide variety of topics open for exploration including: Corporate Performance Measurement, Risk Measurement, Valuation, Returns Persistence, and Backtesting of trading strategies and unique signals. Core competency in quantitative analysis, programming, and data management is necessary combined with a passion to improve one's understanding of equities (and to a lesser extent, fixed income) and the broader Investment Banking opportunity set. Skills Experience and Skills Required: • 1-3 years of applicable experience • BS/MS in Computer Science, Computational Finance or other numerical discipline, or Economics • Programming experience in one or more of: R, MATLAB, C/C++/C#, Java, Visual Basic • Ability to communicate ideas clearly and effectively • Advanced Excel (required), SQL and/or Visual Studio helpful • Strong writing skills Experience and Skills Desired: • Experience with Financial Modeling (DCF, Valuations, etc.) • Background in Statistics and Econometrics • Strong aptitude of and interest in the market ---------------------------------- Credit Suisse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of any protected category. To the extent permitted or required by applicable law, a candidate who is offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check and other background checks before the appointment is confirmed.
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