Associate, Operations

About The Role

S&P Global Market Intelligence Pricing Data provides robust coverage across bonds, CDS, and loans pricing, as well as equity volatility data and securities lending data for stocks and bonds. The Parsing team is responsible for monitoring the quality of quotes parsed for over 25 OTC instruments, including CDS, indices, bonds, loans, and converts.

This role is a Data Analyst position within the Pricing Operations - Parsing team, focusing on extracting and storing OTC pricing content from messages in real-time.

Key Responsibilities

• Operational maintenance of parsed quotes for different asset classes.
• Delivery of set targets with desired quality parameters.
• Identify data quality improvement projects.
• Identification of opportunities to enhance operational efficiency.
• Client (internal and external) support for data.
• Assist in data analysis and compiling regular metrics of operational activity including data quality statistics.
• User acceptance testing for new or enhanced product functionality.
• Ensure process documentation is kept updated and accounts for any changes to existing process and is extended to cover new processes.
• Improve operational efficiency through proposing process enhancements and implementing them as agreed with the management team.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Must have general interest in financial markets, Bonds & other asset classes and be keen to expand knowledge.
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Strong Microsoft Excel and Access
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Working knowledge of Python is an added advantage
• Very good eye for detail – and a careful and methodical approach to work.
• Good problem solver.
• Reliable – can be undertaken duties on a consistent basis and to agreed deadlines.
• Good time-manager – can balance immediate day to day deadlines with longer term work.
• Strong communication skills – particularly written communication.
• Confident in escalating issues to management.
• Seeks advice as needed.
• Readily shares information with colleagues and management.
• Excellent team-player skills.

Qualifications

• Degree level (preferably in finance and/or business).
• 0-2 years’ experience in a similar industry.
• Ideally an understanding of financial markets or demonstrates a strong interest in the mechanics of financial markets.
• Understanding of the Bond Markets is preferable but not essential.

Shift Timings

• London shift hours - (12:00 PM IST to 9:00 PM IST)