Pricing Specialist – Financial Services – 126876 recruitment
Job Description:
Job has been amended from Senior to Data Specialist 9/23/09
- Monitoring incoming feeds and data sets to ensure the timely arrival of necessary data-sets, which may include generating pricing sweeps that populate pricing production files.
- Researching and resolving through communication with internal departments and external sources any delays to the arrival of data-sets
- In the event of problems occurring, keep all relevant internal departments apprised of the scope, impact and progress towards their resolution
- Running, reading and understanding all versions of data and price edit reports, and applying edits/changes/deletions as required.
- Validating pricing data in a time sensitive manner using trade data information such as time and sales (tick by tick) as well as third party data sources.
- Contacting exchanges, sources and vendors on a daily basis
- Accurately recording all edit/change/deletion records
- Reading, interpreting and executing various reports generated daily which assist in the maintenance of various databases
- Maintaining current and historical data in various databases
- Matching securities with their related identifiers across multiple databases
- Maintaining holiday schedules and time zone changes for all covered Global Markets
- Writing documentation on specific tasks, data types and country/exchange profiles, as required in the group
- Writing clear and concise descriptions of data disruptions for internal Alert database
- Responding to data and pricing queries in a timely manner
- Researching data anomalies using exchange websites, third party pricing screens, and knowledge of internal workings of various Pricing Reference Data databases.
- Perform project work and special assignments as requested
Qualifications:
Job Keywords: pricing, securities
February 14, 2012
• Tags: 126876 recruitment, Equities careers in the USA, Financial Services, Pricing Specialist • Posted in: Financial