Job Description
Our client is seeking an experienced
Senior Market Data Analyst to design, implement, and manage market data solutions across a complex financial services organization. This individual will play a strategic role in shaping the firm’s market data strategy, including governance, vendor management, and implementation of best-in-class tools and services to support both
public and private markets.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in
Bloomberg, FactSet, and Refinitiv (Reuters), combined with hands-on experience building and scaling a
market data management function within an investment or asset management environment.
What can you expect?
- An exciting opportunity to join one of the largest and most rapidly-growing business areas – Investment Solutions
- As part of our Global Data Team, the successful candidate will play a key role in developing our data capabilities while maintaining a global perspective collaborating with global data teams across Europe and APAC
- You will be a key player in the newly created Reference Data team within the exciting data transformation program and will be part of an entrepreneurial and innovative culture.
- The role will be impactful and varied, from hands-on to strategic.
What is in it for you?
- Employee friendly policies
- Health care and insurance for you and your dependents
- Healthy Work life balance
- A great working environment
- Flexible benefits packages to suit your needs and lifestyle.
- Future career opportunities across a global organization
We will count on you to have skills on:
- Data Sourcing and Management:
- Perform analysis to acquire new datasets from internal and external sources.
- Build and maintain relationships with external market data providers, from a day-to-day operational perspective
- Understand and administer appropriate data permissions for investment professionals
- Track and report on key metrics for data governance and ensure data quality and integrity throughout its lifecycle.
- Conduct regular audits and reconciliations to ensure data accuracy and completeness.
- Data Analysis and Reporting:
- Monitor existing data feeds and identify ways to improve data flow, quality, and consumption.
- Analyze market data to identify trends based on requests and design solutions the minimize the need for additional licenses.
- Create and maintain processes to generate accurate and timely reports, helping stakeholders
- Cross-functional Collaboration:
- Support investment teams by handling data requests, onboarding new content, managing access, and resolving issues.
- Liaise with various internal departments, solution partners regarding market data requests
- Troubleshoot data issues by working with business and vendor teams
- Address any data quality issues as part of the validation process
- Understand the evolving data requirements of business partners and match them with the best market solutions.
- Market Data Strategy & Implementation
- Lead the rollout of a firmwide market data implementation practice, ensuring alignment with business, technology, and compliance goals.
- Design an approach to rationalize market data requests from multiple stakeholders and a scalable solution to meet a varied range of needs
- Define and implement data governance policies, usage standards, and cost optimization processes.
- Evaluate, select, and integrate market data platforms (Bloomberg, FactSet, Reuters, and others) into business workflows and enterprise systems.
- Review and interpret complex market data contracts to ensure compliance with licensing, entitlements, and redistribution policies.
- Identify opportunities for cost savings, contract consolidation, and service optimization.
- Present strategic recommendations and business cases to senior management on market data solutions and organizational impact.
- Data Governance & Compliance
- Develop and maintain data governance frameworks and operating models to ensure compliance with market data usage policies.
- Partner with legal, compliance, and finance teams to oversee audit readiness and mitigate market data risk exposure.
- Market Data Analytics & Optimization
- Conduct usage analysis and reporting to optimize data consumption and reduce redundant feeds.
- Support the development of dashboards, KPIs, and reporting tools to monitor data performance and costs.
Operating Style
- Embrace solving data challenges within a complex, siloed and global environment
- Be solution and delivery oriented finding pathways to solutions by breaking down problems that are to be expected each step of the way
- Adapt to internal team and external team working styles flexing as needed
- Recognize when to take direction versus when to operate independently
- Balance selective use of escalation by driving to solutions with effective collaboration
- Engage closely with key stakeholders across business to identify reference data requirements and collaborate cross functionally to deliver data solutions.
- Strong communication to navigate an environment that lacks clarity with ability to make informed decisions on design with limited requirements using deep data analysis as aid
- Support and influence the development of overall data delivery strategy.
- Demonstrable interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with business stakeholders at all levels.
What you need to have:
Business Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Information Systems, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
- 7+ years of experience in market data management, data governance, or investment operations within financial services.
- Deep knowledge of Bloomberg, FactSet, and Reuters (Refinitiv), including data licensing models and entitlement structures.
- Strong understanding of both public and private market investment data needs.
- Proven experience standing up or transforming a market data function, including governance and vendor relationship frameworks.
- Familiarity with data contracts, licensing terms, redistribution rights, and compliance audits.
- Experience with market data inventory and cost management tools (e.g., MDM, DACS, FITS, TRG, MDSL).
- Exposure to cloud-based data distribution models and API integration.
- Understanding of index, reference, and alternative data landscapes.
- Strong proficiency in data management and analysis tools.
- Advanced Excel skills are essential
- Experience with SQL for data manipulation and analysis.
- Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) is beneficial.
- Ability to work with IT to onboard new feeds that will include providing requirements and do corresponding testing
- Excellent communication and presentation skills; ability to create and deliver proposals to senior leadership.
- Strong analytical and project management skills with attention to detail and organizational acumen.
Data Skills
- Deep data analysis extracting data, performing pattern recognitions, reverse engineering data entities, relationships, characteristics to arrive at business concepts and bridging gaps in business understanding
- Mapping data flows, process flows and business flows out of vast amounts of enterprise level datasets
- Deep Knowledge of master data management and reference data design principles and its impact to downstream usages
- Deep knowledge of data management within MDM environment life cycle and cross-environments (ex. implementation of universal identifiers)
- Bring familiarity with integrating disparate data eco systems, data models, data pipelines and supported business workflows.
- Deep Experience with data modeling, ETL processes, and database management systems, with a focus on supporting business needs.
- Familiarity with data governance principles and practices, including metadata management and data quality assurance.
- Strong analytical skills using tools such as Excel, Vision, PowerPoint, Word.
- Strong proficiency in SQL, RDBMS (Oracle/SQL Server), structured and unstructured data analysis
- Proficiency in S&P EDM (Markit EDM), its components and implementation of MDM use cases is a huge plus
What makes you stand out?
- Outcome oriented, energetic, proactive, critical thinking and a desire to see things done efficiently.
- Entrepreneurial approach to problem solving balancing the needs for tactical and strategic solutions.
- Ability to look for quick wins for the business teams using principles of design thinking in an agile delivery model.
- Ability to work with competing priorities and facilitate prioritization discussions with the business.
- Ability to work creatively in a plan, build, and operate mindset as solutions are developed and implemented.
- Ability to communicate complex issues in a simple and coherent manner.
- Attention to detail, and proven track record in project management and engaging with a variety of stakeholders.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Certifications such as CAIA, CIPM, or CFA is a strong plus.
