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Quantitative analyst — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Financial Risk Specialists · Statisticians · Operations Research Analysts · Investment Fund Managers · Statistical Assistants · Credit Analysts
In the official classification#
Financial Quantitative Analysts
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 5: extensive preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗In Europe, internationally and in Singapore
investment analyst
Fit with this page: closest match, not the same job
See it in ESCO ↗Financial analysts
Fit with this page: closest match, not the same job
Financial analyst
Fit with this page: closest match, not the same job
What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 13-2099.01 (Financial Quantitative Analysts). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Complex Problem SolvingVery important
- Judgment and Decision MakingVery important
- Systems AnalysisImportant
- Systems EvaluationImportant
- PersuasionImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- InstructingImportant
Knowledge
- MathematicsExtremely important
- Economics and AccountingVery important
- Computers and ElectronicsVery important
- English LanguageImportant
- Engineering and TechnologyImportant
- Administration and ManagementSomewhat important
Work activities
- Working with ComputersExtremely important
- Analyzing Data or InformationExtremely important
- Processing InformationExtremely important
- Getting InformationVery important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsVery important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeVery important
Abilities
- Mathematical ReasoningVery important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Written ExpressionVery important
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
- Number FacilityVery important
Essential skills
- MathematicsVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- Active ListeningVery important
- SpeakingVery important
Each task in O*NET's terms#
O*NET describes work as detailed activities. Each of this page's 5 tasks is matched only against the activities O*NET lists for this occupation, with a stated fit; 4 match at least one. 1 are not in O*NET's list for this occupation. The alignment and its fit are this site's judgement, made task by task by its AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26; O*NET does not align tasks like ours. The activity names are O*NET's, the translations ours.
- Signal research and strategy designAnalyze business or financial data.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Analyzing Data or Information · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Financial analystMonitor business indicators.covers part of this task · Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings · O*NET 31.0
- Backtesting and quantitative codeDevelop business or financial information systems.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment · O*NET 31.0
- Pricing and risk modelsApply mathematical models of financial or business conditions.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Analyzing Data or Information · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Financial analyst · Supply chain planner
- Model validation and challengeDevelop financial analysis methods.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment · O*NET 31.0
- Deploying strategies and answering for themNone of the activities O*NET lists for this occupation covers this task.
Rules that bind this work#
Laws, regulations, court rules, regulators' guidance and collective agreements that this page's verified records read — each with the verb that matters and whom it binds. Read from each record by this site's AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26. Official names stay in their own language.
Rule 1220(b)(4)
registration of persons primarily responsible for designing or significantly modifying algorithmic trading strategies · must · binds a person (licensed or not) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Deploying strategies and answering for them
2016-06-06 · the record →Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/589
Article 5(2) and 5(7): designated person authorises deployment; records of who made and approved each change · must · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Deploying strategies and answering for them
2016-07-19 · the record →Supervisory Statement SS1/23
Principle 4.1: independent validation function staffed with the requisite expertise · should — best efforts or an expectation, not a hard duty · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Model validation and challenge
2023-05-01 · the record →ECB guide to internal models
paragraphs 36, 41 and 43(a) on machine-learning-based internal models · should — best efforts or an expectation, not a hard duty · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Model validation and challenge · Pricing and risk models
2026-06-01 · the record →Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 5 task judgements are for: 5 backed by a verified event, 0 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Each block says where it comes from: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, the European ESCO classification and its official crosswalk to O*NET, the ILO's ISCO-08, Singapore's SSOC 2024, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- The ESCO and ISCO-08 fits are derived mechanically from the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk; where we override it, we say why in our data (for example, the crosswalk pairs radiologists with radiographers, which is a different job). The SSOC 2024 fit is our reading of the Singapore Department of Statistics' own titles and definitions. Official names are shown as their publishers write them; we do not translate them.
- Each task is matched only against the detailed work activities O*NET lists for the codes this page maps to. Where nothing fits, the page says why instead of forcing a match: work O*NET does not describe yet (used only for tasks we judge to be emerging), or nothing in O*NET's list for this occupation. An alignment never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- Rules are read only from this site's verified records. A rule's official name must appear word for word in a record that reads it, so no name is made up; a policy mandate is read only as 'must', 'must not' or 'funds', because 'should' and 'in principle' are not a mandate. Reading a rule never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- How these pieces fit together — objects, links and the actions that change them — is drawn as one diagram: The VOLO ontology
- ESCO (European Commission), occupation records from the ESCO API; CC BY 4.0. ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, ESCO Secretariat with the U.S. Department of Labor/ETA, version 1 (Sep 2022), O*NET-SOC 2019 ↔ ESCO v1.1.0; CC BY 4.0. Singapore Department of Statistics, Singapore Standard Occupational Classification 2024 and its correspondence with ISCO-08.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.