Associate - Market Data Service

Responsibility:

- Familiarity with industry practices in coordinating and managing market data services handling the day-to- day support of market data services including: coordinating user market data service requests, managing the vendor billing process, interacting with vendors, interacting with internal customers, etc.

- Experienced at dealing with investment management professionals and front-office personnel.

- Possess a thorough understanding of fixed income, equity, and derivative products and the market data services related to those businesses.

- Act as liaison between the various groups and market data vendors as well as internal departments specially with Finance, Operations and Technology partners.

- Manage the day-to-day maintenance of our Market Data Services database system TRG Screen Optimize Spend or similar inventory management tool.

- Assist market Data leadership and management in coordinating technical initiatives related to market data implementations, service upgrades, training classes, problem resolutions, etc.

- Partner with Vendor program and Risk & Control partners to help mitigate Supplier Risk and have proper risk thresholds across all Market Data vendor services.

- Coordinate training sessions of market data providers with all of our internal customers.

- Serve as point person for escalation to our market data providers (both internal and external) regarding any problems and requests for market data services.

- Take a lead role in interdepartmental and interdivisional operational project initiatives.

- Oversee and analyze business unit market data budgets and expenses working closely with Business Unit Finance and Accounts Payable teams.

- Minimum of 5-7 years of overall business experience with at least 2 years of market data experience preferred

- Bachelor degree or job equivalent of not less than 7 years

- Supervisory (project leadership) experience is preferred.

- Knowledge of Market Data vendors such as Use of Bloomberg, FactSet, Refinitiv, ICE, Rating Agencies and the likes a plus.

- Experience with market data management applications (i.e. FITS, MDS2000, etc.)

- Self-managed and results-oriented

- Strong oral and written communications skills

- Team player, detail oriented, able to multi-task and prioritize effectively

- Proficient utilization of MS OFFICE products

Required:

- Ability to analyze process/data exceptions and proven attention to detail

- Ability to work relatively independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

- Prioritization and problem solving skills

- Experience using MS Office products (Advance Excel & VBA) and SQL.

- Very good communication skills, written and verbal

Preferred:

- Experience/expertise in the use of some/all : Eagle Pace (Performance and Data Management), Bloomberg Terminal, Bloomberg API, SS&C Portia, Long View Trading, Charles River Trading system, Oracle SQL Developer, Factset, Reuters, ICE