Senior Associate, Financial Analytics – S&P Capital IQ, EMEA recruitment
Standard Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world's foremost provider of financial market intelligence, including independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With approximately 7,500 employees, including wholly owned affiliates, located in 21 countries, Standard Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 150 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. Capital IQ, a Standard Poor's business, delivers comprehensive fundamental and quantitative research and analysis solutions to over 4,500 investment management firms, private equity funds, investment banks, advisory firms, corporations, and universities worldwide. Its solutions are based on the Capital IQ Platform, Compustat, ClariFI, and Alphaworks products, and offer an array of powerful applications for desktop research, screening, real-time market data, backtesting, portfolio management, financial modeling, and quantitative analysis. Our simplified product suite empowers clients to reduce risk, become more efficient, and make better decisions. SP Capital IQ provides high-impact information and workflow solutions to over 4,200 leading financial institutions, advisory firms, and corporations. Our solutions are based on the Capital IQ Platform, a unique combination of global private and public capital market data and technology that enables end-users to draw deep market insights, generate better ideas, leverage relationships, and simplify workflow. Clients can deploy the Capital IQ Platform either as a standalone solution or seamlessly integrate its components into existing business applications and portals via systems integration and custom data feeds.
We are currently recruiting for a Financial Analytics specialist to join our EMEA team based in Canary Wharf, London. The Senior Associate, Financial Analytics, EMEA, will serve as a content support specialist and a liaison for the EMEA region in answering content related client questions, attending existing and prospective client meetings and generating ideas to enhance our diversified suite of financial products. The candidate will work closely with the Global Content Specialist for the region and assist her in day-to-day responsibilities and interactions with management team members from Enterprise Solutions, Global Data Operations, Integrated Desktop Solutions, our Sales and Client Support teams, and our current and potential clients. The
incumbent will partner with the Global Content Specialist for EMEA and senior management to aggressively grow Enterprise Solutions and Integrated Desktop revenues in the Asia Pacific market over the next 5 years.
Responsibilities:
- Understanding and addressing client product and content needs. This position is responsible for pre- and post-sale support for our Sales team, prospects and existing clients. The candidate, along with the Global Content Specialist for the region, will meet with our clients frequently to understand their workflows and how our content should be packaged to meet those needs around functionality, delivery, entity management, data coverage, data quality, etc.
- Customer Experience and Content Support. Close interaction with Client Support is essential in responding promptly to finance and product-related client inquires through membership in various content support distribution lists. Importantly, helping clients understand the breadth and quality of our content is a key driver for success and revenue growth in the region.
- Marketing and Sales Execution. Another important part of this job is ensuring that the EMEA Sales team has adequate and up-to-date content support resources and sales collateral. This could involve bringing in other resources from across SP Capital IQ as needed to ensure sales success. Frequent interaction with the Sales and Client Support teams is required to understand what the issues are as they come up and where each client is in the sales cycle.
- Content Development. Helping plan and oversee the evolution of our content to increase its relevance to the EMEA market. In addition, a key part of this function will be to help prioritize the addition of new content sets to various applications to help meet client requirements or fill existing gaps in coverage and content
Skills
Required:
· An undergraduate academic degree in accounting, finance or a related field, or a completion of corporate finance training program is required. A related professional certification such as CFA or CPA is a very significant plus
· Previous "financial information" product and content management and support experience is necessary
· Solid knowledge of various SP Capital IQ products and functionality such as the Capital IQ Platform, the Capital IQ Excel Plugin, and the various Capital IQ data feeds, etc.
· User familiarity with competitive software financial products such as FactSet, Bloomberg, Toyo Keizai, Compustat, various Thomson Reuters financial products (E.g. First Call, SDC, Worldscope), Intralinks, Moody's Analytics, etc.
· Demonstrated ability to support an information business product line; hands-on experience with channeling client feedback and product enhancements that lead to increased revenues
· Familiarity with multiple asset classes, global financial markets and trading and securities operations
· Understanding of Asset Management, Investment Banking, Wealth Management, front and back office workflow related to valuation, equity and fixed income pricing, and risk management analysis
· Background in financial statement analysis, valuations and an understanding of financial modeling concepts advantageous
· An ability to present complex concepts and ideas in front of prospective and existing clients and conceptualize specific content and product features or issues in front of junior Sales and Client Support staff advantageous
· Business familiarity with the Financial Information Services industry (i.e. FactSet, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Moody's, etc.) advantageous.