Overview
Full Time
Skills
Modeling
UPS
Equities
Bonds
Derivatives
Trading
Reporting
Profit And Loss
Effective Communication
Regulatory Compliance
Back Office
Training
Finance
Economics
Data Entry
Reference Data
Master Data Management
Fixed Income
Credit Default Swaps
Data Quality
JIRA
Issue Tracking
Pivot Table
SQL
Financial Services
Database
Bloomberg Terminal
Research
Microsoft Excel
Job Details
ROLE OVERVIEW
In the role of Reference Data Operations Analyst, the employee will be responsible for the following:
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:
EDUCATION, TRAINING & EXPERIENCE:
In the role of Reference Data Operations Analyst, the employee will be responsible for the following:
- Driving the highest quality reference data for trading, risk, and operations through the application of data quality techniques
- Develop and apply expertise in the interpretation of corporate actions impact on the Firm and on trading
- Supporting Risk and Financial engineers in the modeling of referential data to support analyses
- Responsible for the creation and ongoing maintenance of security set-ups which include but are not limited to Equities, Bonds, IRS, CDS, Listed Options, Forwards, and Exotic Derivatives (FRA's, FVA,s Digital Options, Contingent Options, Worst of Options, etc...)
- Supporting various firm-wide stakeholders of Referential elements (Account Master, Broker Master, Charge Mgmt Tool, etc...) that enable trading, settlements, and reporting needs
- Working with vendors to source data on demand
- Working with IT development teams to build out new capabilities to streamline daily operations
- Responding to trader queries on positions and PNL showing in firm-wide systems
- Working with our Operations outsourcer on corporate action and security master queries
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:
- In order to effectively represent the Company and communicate with clients, the employee must be someone who has:
- High levels of curiosity and is a self-starter and has proven this by coming up with ideas and enhancements to improve security master processes
- High levels of responsibility and organization and has been able to meet daily and ad-hoc initiatives
- Effective communication skills to ensure proper hand offs and escalation between team members
- Passion and drive for analyzing, researching, and resolving data issues using various tools
- An outgoing personality that has demonstrated to effectively work with people across risk, compliance, technology, front, middle, and back office.
EDUCATION, TRAINING & EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelors' Degree in Finance or economics
- Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience, including specific experience outlined below is mandatory:
- Heavy data entry experience maintaining static/reference data primarily around security master data
- Minimum 3 years' experience maintaining security master data for Equity, Fixed Income, Options, Credit Default Swaps, and Interest Rate Swaps.
- Minimum 3 years' experience working resolving data quality exceptions and reconciliations
- Minimum 1 year experience using JIRA or similar Issue tracking system
- Added technical skills
- Has used Excel for 3 years effectively with financial services data
- Ability to run VLOOKUPS, HLOOKUP, COUNTS, SEARCHES and leverage Pivot tables to join, organize, and analyze data across large datasets
- Has used SQL Editor for 1 year with financial services data
- Ability to run SEARCH, JOIN, ORDER BY, and GROUP BY queries to analyze data across large db tables
- Proficient using Bloomberg Terminal and related functions
- Ability to use the terminal to research and analyze various BBG data points
- Ability to create formulas to pull data into Excel
- Understand various mechanisms BBG offers has to help drive automated security master processes
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