Senior Securities Data Analyst, Pricing & Custody Data , Investment Management - JJ Search - eFinancialCareers : Job Details

The Company:

Our client is a highly successful and expanding Investment Management firm, widely recognised with an excellent reputation based in London.

The Role:

The Senior Securities Data Analyst role sits within the Securities & Data Team - this is part of the Custody & Execution Services business area of the Investment Management firm.

The Senior Securities Data Analyst will primarily be responsible for maintaining securities data, pricing and classification information on the investment management system platform and will provide day-to-day data support for the Front Office and liaise with vendors and other internal teams to ensure high level of Securities and Investment Management firm data accuracy.

The Senior Securities Data Analyst will be expected to identify process improvements and efficiencies, as well as taking on additional responsibilities.

The Senior Securities Data analyst will also assist the project team with testing releases/upgrades from the investment management system platform, including review and updating existing procedures for the maintenance of securities data and implementing data quality checking processes to mitigate risk.

Maintain the Stock File for both listed and unlisted stocks and products, assure the accuracy of Stock File information, responding to all incoming queries from Investment Managers and Clients with daily and monthly updates of manual prices.

The Senior Securities Data Analyst will ensure that the industrial and geographical classifications of stocks are correctly reported on client’s portfolios, monitor price movements and corporate actions, ensure the overnight pricing files from our data vendor and Reference data have been received and populated correctly on the the investment management system platform.

The Senior Securities Data Analyst will liaise with the Investment Research team to ensure approved funds are correctly reported, generate and recalculate composite benchmarks. Loading new stocks: on request for the Front Office, Research and the Transfers team.

The Senior Securities Data Analyst will act as a point of contact and subject matter expert on Securities & Firm Data issues. Build strong working relationships with the Front Office, and the wider Custody Control team, Client Reporting and other teams within the Custody Services department.

The Candidate

Strong Data Analyst skills - working with Securities data and pricing data within the Investment Management industry is essential

Analytical skills with the ability to collect organize and analyse and disseminate significant amounts of information accurately

Knowledge of FNZ’s Figaro system is desirable

Good working knowledge of Bloomberg and ICE is desirable

Excellent written and oral communication skills

A team player

Strong focus on consistency, accuracy and quality with an excellent attention to detail