Quantitative Strategist

Application deadline: 1 December 2026

Programme start date: July 2027 (or sooner if desired)

Eligibility:  Final or Penultimate year students graduating in Summer 2027 or 2028

Who we are:

Rothesay is the UK’s largest pensions insurance specialist, purpose-built to protect pension schemes and their members’ pensions. With over £74 billion of assets under management, we secure the pensions of more than one million people and pay out, on average, approximately £350 million in pension payments each month.

Rothesay is dedicated to providing excellence in customer service alongside prudent underwriting, a conservative investment strategy and the careful management of risk. We are trusted by the pension schemes of some of the UK’s best known companies to provide pension solutions, including British Airways, Cadbury, the Civil Aviation Authority, the Co-Operative, Morrisons, Smiths Industries and Telent. At Rothesay, we are striving to transform our industry. We believe deeply in creating real security for the future and our leadership in finding new and better ways to do that is the key to our success. To do that, we need the very brightest original thinkers to bring creativity as well as rigour. Rothesay is a rewarding place to work, where quality people can thrive and prosper. We pride ourselves on the connections our people build, many of whom have been with us for over ten years.

Internship Programme:

Our internship programme is designed to provide hands on work experience within a fast-pace financial services environment, allowing you to develop the key skills to jump-start your career.  

The 8 week structured programme will start with a fundamentals week offering insight into Rothesay, your team and the financial services industry.  Through-out the programme there will be both on-desk and off-desk technical and business skills training, providing career building exposure to accelerate your future after you graduate.  You will gain visibility and experience in a flat structure, with the opportunity to network and socialise across different levels and teams throughout the firm.  Rothesay is a rewarding place to work, where quality people can thrive and prosper.

What you’ll do:

Our Quantitative Strategists use their mathematical and scientific training to create financial products, advise clients on transactions, measure risk and identify market opportunities.  They focus on the pricing and risk management of complex transactions, ranging from pension fund buyout trades to exotic assets and derivatives.

In their daily work, quantitative strategists work closely with our traders and structuring teams, analysing trades and asset origination opportunities for execution and ongoing measurement and management. This emphasis on advanced financial mathematics and a highly analytical approach as an integral part of the risk management of the firm distinguishes Rothesay from many of its competitors. In general, we are looking for smart, quantitative, commercial, problem-solving-oriented, “get-things-done” candidates with the skills to deliver robust, high performance software and quantitative analyses and with either experience in financial markets or a keen interest to learn about them.