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# Finance Data Analyst at Squarepoint Capital

- **Company:** Squarepoint Capital
- **Location:** Montréal, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/open-opportunities?id=8114371&gh_jid=8114371

## Job description

Position Overview:

We are looking for a detail-oriented and analytically minded finance professional to join the Financial Planning & Analysis team at Squarepoint, a leading quantitative investment manager. The individual should have a solid understanding of financial data management and reconciliation, with experience working across finance systems and a confidence in ensuring data is accurate, well-structured, and fit for purpose. The role will focus on improving the quality and integrity of contract and financial data, as well as owning the tracking and loading of leasehold improvement spend, with outputs that directly improve the reliability of FP&A forecasting, reporting, and invoice processing across the business.

This is a hands-on role suited to someone who takes pride in data accuracy, enjoys investigating and resolving financial misalignments, and is motivated by the opportunity to create tangible and lasting improvements in data quality and process. The role offers real visibility across the finance function and the chance to work with a broad range of stakeholders, making a meaningful impact on the quality of information that underpins decision-making across the business.

- Reviewing actual ledger postings against contract data to identify and resolve misalignments in financial attributions, ensuring contracts are correctly tagged at source across all relevant dimensions.
- Reviewing contract run rates against contracted values, engaging with business owners to understand and document variances and revise contract values where necessary.
- Reviewing inactive contracts to assess whether they should remain active, reducing noise in the data and improving forecast reliability.
- Collaborating with the Technology team to explore opportunities to improve recording of contract data in a way that enables more granular and accurate reporting.
- Working with external partners to ensure the monthly leasehold improvement trackers are completed accurately and capture all required information for FP&A and stakeholders.
- Loading leasehold improvement data into the FP&A forecasting platform on a monthly basis, ensuring it reconciles correctly and is available for stakeholder reporting and analysis.

Required qualifications:

- Relevant experience in a finance, FP&A, or financial control role, with a solid understanding of how financial data flows between systems and feeds into reporting and forecasting.
- Experience reconciling financial data across systems, with the ability to identify root causes of misalignments and work with stakeholders to resolve them.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build and maintain professional relationships across all levels of the business.
- High personal standards, strong attention to detail and a desire to exceed expectations.
- An independent mindset, with the confidence to challenge existing processes and propose improvements.
- A well-structured, proactive work ethic with the ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- A curious mindset and a natural interest in understanding the wider business.
- Open to technology and motivated to find ways to streamline and improve processes.
- Familiarity with LLM tools in either a professional or personal context.
- Familiarity with a CRM or contract management system, and experience using a financial planning or EPM tool, would be advantageous.
- Experience with data visualisation, including graphs and dashboards, would be advantageous.

## About Squarepoint Capital

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Squarepoint Capital is a leading global quantitative investment manager that uses a rigorous scientific approach and state-of-the-art technology to construct diversified, systematic strategies for institutional clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed external funding; spun out from Barclays in 2014)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2014 (as an independent firm; the underlying business, nQuant, dates back to 2000 within Lehman Brothers and later Barclays)
- **Founders**: Led by four founding partners (names not publicly disclosed); the original founders of nQuant continue to lead Squarepoint today.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Quantitative Investment Management
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (B2B)
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Achieving high quality returns for our clients” through a systematic, diversified, and research-driven investment platform.

## Products & Services
- **Quantitative Investment Strategies**: A diversified portfolio of systematic strategies spanning multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities), trading frequencies (high-frequency to long-term), and global markets. The majority of investments are based on rigorous backtesting on historical data.
- **Technology & Data Platform**: A custom, nimble, and forward-looking software stack that enables seamless integration between research and trading, executing millions of trades per day. Includes low-latency trading systems and a world-class data infrastructure.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue is not publicly disclosed (LinkedIn estimates ~$12M, but this likely underrepresents a firm of this scale; the figure should be treated with caution). The firm is privately held and does not report earnings.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: No external investors; the firm is privately held by its founding partners. Alumni frequently move to top quant funds and tech companies (e.g., Millennium, Citadel, Qube Research & Technologies, Google, Jump Trading).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 33.9% year-over-year to approximately 1,801 employees (LinkedIn, 2025). The firm operates 17 offices across 8 countries and is actively hiring across technical, research, and finance roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep heritage**: The team’s quantitative roots trace back to 2000, with a proven track record through multiple market cycles.
- **Scientific rigor**: A disciplined, research-first approach that relies on backtesting and systematic execution rather than discretionary bets.
- **Scale and technology**: Executes millions of trades daily using a highly custom, low-latency platform developed in-house.
- **Global diversification**: Strategies span asset classes, geographies, and trading frequencies, reducing reliance on any single market or style.
- **Culture of ownership**: Privately held and led by its founding partners, fostering long-term thinking and accountability.

## Strategic Focus
- **Diversification**: Continuously expanding into new asset classes, trading frequencies, and geographies.
- **Technology investment**: Ongoing development of proprietary software and data infrastructure to maintain a competitive edge in research and execution.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring quantitative researchers, software engineers (C++, Python), platform engineers, and operations specialists across global offices.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaboration across teams, a flat structure with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and a focus on intellectual curiosity.
- **Work environment**: In-office for most roles (offices in New York, Boston, London, Paris, Singapore, Bangalore, etc.). Some roles offer a remote work program, but the majority require physical presence.
- **Benefits**: Generous parental leave, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(K) matching, disability and life insurance, paid sick days, generous PTO, paid volunteer time, free snacks and drinks. Offices are designed for in-person collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Technology is considered core to the business; engineers work closely with quantitative researchers to build and optimize trading systems. Emphasis on C++, Python, Kubernetes, and low-latency systems.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth and a global footprint offer opportunities for career advancement and international mobility.

## Sources
1. [squarepoint-capital.com](https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/)
2. [squarepoint-capital.com/about](https://squarepoint-capital.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital)
4. [builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/squarepointcapital](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/squarepointcapital)

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