Associate, Product Services Analyst, Equities recruitment

Company overview

Markit is a leading, global financial information services company with over 2,300 employees.  The company provides independent data, valuations and trade processing across all asset classes in order to enhance transparency, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency.  Its client base includes the most significant institutional participants in the financial marketplace. For more information, please see www.markit.com

Department

Markit Equities

Department overview

Markit Equities combines independent dividend forecasts with a global equity index management service. Our independent benchmark forecasting service covers discrete dividend amounts and ex-dates on over 7,000 stocks worldwide whilst our index management service collates equity index and ETF compositions and delivers them via a single, uniformly formatted feed that is validated and delivered each day before markets open.

Position summary

The successful candidate will be working as part of the Index Production team which is responsible for the research, production and calculation of Indices and ETF’s. Key parts of the daily responsibilities include index calculation, validation of processes, researching corporate actions, client support and news research for both our global index and ETF products.

Duties accountabilities

• Research and calculate Bespoke index compositions making adjustments for relevant corporate actions or events.

• Daily update, validation and research of global public indices and ETF’s.

• Carry out QA checks on index and ETF data.

• Maintain the static ETF data and contact providers when necessary.

• Respond to client queries and provided detailed analysis and feedback to their questions.

Business competencies

Education and experience

• Undergraduate degree level or equivalent in a financial/quantitative discipline or equivalent

• Strong IT skills, preferably VBA and SQL experience

Commercial awareness

• Ideally experience in dealing with client queries

Management requirements

n/a

Personal competencies

Personal impact

• Strong problem solving skills

• Flexibility and attitude to achieve tight deadlines

• Flexibility and Adaptability

• Pleasant personality

Communication

• Excellent communication skills

• Although not a pre-requisite, fluency in the following languages would be viewed favorably: Korean, Japanese, Mandarin

Teamwork

• Strong team player who is comfortable working at all levels of the business