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Quantitative Analyst resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what quantitative analysts actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most quantitative analysts should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Quantitative analyst with a mathematics and statistics background who builds, backtests and validates pricing and risk models for derivatives and portfolio risk. Works in Python and R alongside traders, risk managers and engineers to take models from research through to production, and documents assumptions clearly enough for validation and audit. Comfortable operating where a model's output feeds live risk and trading decisions.
Key skills
- Financial analysis and modelling
- Statistical modelling
- Machine learning
- Data analysis
- Programming and software development
- Risk and internal controls
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Bloomberg Terminal
- Git
Experience: example bullet points
- Built and backtested pricing models for interest rate and equity derivatives, testing each against historical market data before releasing it to the desk.
- Reworked the daily portfolio risk process to run value at risk and multi-scenario stress tests overnight, so results were on the desk before the market opened.
- Developed a statistical screening framework to flag mispricings in market data, cutting false positives and making the output usable for traders.
- Validated model assumptions against live trading results and documented where each model broke down, giving risk and audit a clear record of known limitations.
- Partnered with traders and software engineers to move models from research notebooks into production systems, with tests and version control so changes could be reviewed like any other code.
Education
Bachelor degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering or finance, with many quantitative analysts adding a postgraduate qualification in quantitative finance, financial mathematics or a related discipline.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- quantitative finance
- derivatives pricing
- Monte Carlo simulation
- stochastic modelling
- value at risk
- stress testing
- backtesting
- model validation
- market risk
- counterparty credit risk
- APRA
- ASIC
- CPS 220
- Basel III
- CFA
- FRM
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Bloomberg Terminal
- Git
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.