Director of ETF & Index Services – 121911 recruitment
Job Description:
- Oversee operational infrastructure and ongoing maintenance of ETF Index services
- Manage a global team operating 24 hrs / 5 days a week.
- Responsible for evaluating current and proposed systems and procedures and determine and implement changes as necessary.·
- Establish new controls and procedures to streamline the workflow as well as ensure increased accountability.
- Work with the product implementation team in designing new workflows, support structures and calculation capabilities to expand the business.
- Manage relationships with various service providers, including data vendors and exchanges.
- Manage team projects from consultation to deployment, applying project management methodology and enforcing best practice standards.
- Establish excellent communication flow between all relevant stakeholders, including those that are internal and external, and between the U.S. and our London and Asia Pacific teams and clients
- Coordinate and collaborate with other divisions to make sure the required data and methodologies are in place.
Qualifications:
- Exceptional project management skills and a quantitative aptitude.
- Superior business judgment, exceptional analytical skills, and outstanding written and verbal communication and decision-making skills.
- A minimum of 10-12 years of experience in the financial services industry with emphasis on project or process management is desirable.
- Strong negotiation, coordination, and relationship-building skills.
- Proven managerial experience
- Strong understanding of corporate actions and dividends.
- High level of proficiency in Excel
- Must be extremely organized, motivated, able to multitask and take initiative to enhance processes
- Good interpersonal skills to develop working relationships with colleagues, clients, and professional third parties
- Candidates must have at minimum a bachelor's degree. MBA or a CFA considered a plus.
- Detailed technical knowledge of operations specifically of equity index/ETF operations
Interactive Data is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Job Keywords: ETF, index, financial services, equities
January 13, 2012
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