Position summary:

The key responsibility is to manage the content and delivery of a range of proprietary and bespoke indices in the fixed-income and equity space. The oversight of the administration of the existing indices as well as the on-boarding of new indices is an integral element of the position.

Duties & accountabilities:

Product delivery management:

• Management of the production and delivery of the index products to clients on a daily basis.
• Managing the entire product delivery cycle within the client’s service level targets.
• Managing strict index delivery schedules
• Ensure a seamless implementation into the existing workflow complying with both internal and external service agreements.
• Develop a forward-looking view of broad market developments with an ability to understand the potential impact on the indices
• The successful candidate will have and be able to demonstrate experience in and an academic understanding of fixed income/equity indices, management of client relationships, knowledge about the implementation of corporate actions, database design and external vendor management

Accountability and Ownership:

• Engaging productively to ensure proper and timely delivery of assigned projects. Willingness to take ultimate responsibility for assigned deliverables.
• Coordination of the team’s efforts by scheduling and assigning tasks, ensuring coverage and stepping in to take on tasks when required.

Customer service:

• Clear communications to internal and external clients.
• Delivery of new index solutions and projects within agreed service levels.

Quality Assurance:

• Understanding and being able to perform the key functions of the team.
• Reviewing and challenging the existing processes to ensure continuous improvement in the delivery of index data both in terms of accuracy and timeliness.
• Driving and supporting the introduction of new measures to ensure quality throughout the end-to-end process of delivering indices to the clients.

Business competencies:

Education and experience:

• University graduate or postgraduate, preferably in computing, finance-related or natural sciences.
• Knowledge in Financial markets/fixed income/equity domain is must.
• SQL, Advanced Excel and proven financial markets knowledge or knowledge of standard financial data vendor software are must.
• Python is added advantage.
• Research and valuation of fixed income and/or equity securities.

Commercial awareness:

The individual needs to be detail oriented enough to build high quality, superior products and possess the ability to understand business objectives and focus and prioritise multiple projects accordingly.

Personal competencies:

Personal impact:

The individual needs to possess:

• Strong analytical and mathematical skills.
• Experience writing logical mappings and transforming data, complexities range from basic unit conversions to data joining logic.
• Ability to navigate various types of file deliveries (e.g., FTP) and archives.
• Excellent communication skills to initiate and manage communication with third party suppliers and escalations to internal teams.

Teamwork:

• Ability to work with and motivate the team.
• Support team members in their daily work and drive the delivery.
• Diplomatic and cooperative approach in project work across teams.