Business Management Specialist, AS

Role Description

The Market Data Services (MDS) team aims to provide a robust and efficient service for every end user requiring market data, spread across 43 countries. The MDS Centre of Excellence set up provides support to manage the massive vendor perimeter of market data providers, exchanges, rating agencies, brokers and many more, managing the entire market data process from front to back including relationship management, procurement, advice, project management, installation and support

Scope:

The team for MDS Demand Management function handles data requests and inventory management through market data inventory system, Market Data Manager (MDM). The function is responsible for data quality checks and governance around market data users and contracts, globally. The team works in shifts to support all the regions.

Your key responsibilities

User Demand Management:

• Provide a central point of contact for moves, adds and changes for market data access
• Raise and ensure business line approval of costs for each request
• Handle end-user access requests and perform user access provisioning controls
• Tracking of all user information and service changes within the market data database

Financial Management:

• Month end governance accurate and transparent allocations of market data spend
• Monthly analysis of account balances and resolving variances
• Coordinating with sourcing to manage purchase orders and invoices for market data
• Run interfaces with market data vendor entitlement systems and other sources(i.e. Refinitivs DACS, Bloomberg EMRS systems)
• Update market data pricing catalogue based on contractual terms
• Create and process monthly business allocation journals
• Distribution of monthly reports to Business partners

Your skills and experience

• Research oriented and process driven with strong analytical and financial skills
• Attention to detail with strong written and oral skills
• Adaptable to new environment and able to work under pressure
• Use of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint to a high standard
• Knowledge of market data including DACS and MDSL MDM is preferred
• Accounting knowledge including pass through cost center accounting, financial forecasting and planning is preferred
• 3 years minimum experience in a Banking environment
• Must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written in English
• Independent self-starter, customer focused with good interpersonal skills
• Result-oriented and able to multi-task in a fast paced and pressured environment
• Good knowledge of investment banking businesses and financial markets.