Associate, Financial, FI, Equity & Commodities Research NE

The Team:

The Bond Reference Data team is responsible formaintaining the smooth running of the day-to-day operations of SPs bonds product and services as well as supporting the questions and requests of our internal and external clients. Working closely with other functions within the wider global team product management, business analysis, technology, and testing.The team also works towards enhancing reference data product offerings.

The Impact:

SP offers reference data cutting across assets classes such as bonds, loans, equity, CDS. The Reference Data product services internal clients as well as external clients and is focused on developing a suite of Reference Data offerings for the broader marketplace. Bond Reference Data is a growing product within its Reference Data offering. We help deliver highly researched data points to our clients which in turn aidthem in strengthening risk management for valuation analysis, aggregation of content, tagging research and benchmarking.

Whats in it for you:

If you're interested in working in an environment where leadership, excellence, integrity, and diversity are among our core principles, then explore the opportunities at SP Global. The successful candidate will be:

• Working in a global team environment across functions

• Gaining deep knowledge from industry experts around reference data

• Helping to drive production, process, and content improvements across the group

Responsibilities:

• Researching and updating issued deals into the database

• Coverage of international bond markets and expansion of the same

• Operational maintenance of Reference data product

• Delivery of set targets with desired quality parameters

• Manage workflow of team in the absence of team leader

• Identify data quality improvement projects

• Identification of opportunities to enhance operational efficiency and database coverage

• Manage client (internal and external) queries

• Handle client escalations for the team

• Data analysis

• Liaise with counterparts/stakeholders globally and work as ambassador for the team

• Work on root Cause analysis for data inconsistencies

• User acceptance testing for new or enhanced product functionality

What Were Looking For:

Business competencies

• Graduate degree/ Post Graduate or equivalent in ideally Finance, Economics or Business

• Must have a keen interest in finance and also be up to date with current global financial market news

• Good knowledge of different types of fixed income debt and terms and conditions associated with them

• Knowledge of 3rd party vendor feeds will be desirable

• Basic to intermediate knowledge of SQL and Excel is an added advantage

Personal competencies

• Must demonstrate superior communication skills (written and verbal)

• Display a high degree of problem solving and critical thinking skills

• The candidate must be a team playerand it is expected that the candidate will work well individually, as well as in a global team environment

• The candidate must be a self-starter, adapt to dynamics of the work environment