Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Market Data Analyst role with an Investment Bank, Singapore.

This role is open with the Market Data Business Management department which is responsible for all the proactive management of: Vendor Relationships, Contract Negotiations, Financial Management, Business Requirements etc pertaining to Market Data Services / Suppliers.
• Responsible for managing Global Market Data business requests and provision of appropriate services.
• Day to day management of service requests ensuring that they are action in a timely and efficient manner.
• Responsible for ensuring all business are setup in the most cost effective delivery.
• Responsible in ensuring all service changes are reflected accurately and in a timely fashion into the global inventory system.
• Effective interface with customers will require coverage during NY office hours.
• Business relationship management, supporting the interface between market data and the business to ensure that the group delivers a consistently high level of service.

Experience required:
• Minimum 5 years experience in the Market Data industry.
• Experience of working in service environment where delivery and service quality are essential.
• Delivery skills essential, along with good communication skills and customer focused. Able to work in a pressurized environment and interact directly with end users / traders, vendors and other internal groups. Must be a team player. Able to multi-task and be adaptable to change.

Skills Required
• Knowledge of the following:
• Open Bloomberg; BBA
• Reuters 3000Xtra
• Thomson Suite of Products
• Microsoft Office

Skills Preferred
• Basic Knowledge of MDS 2000
• Basic Understanding of the financial products and markets

Main Duties
• Effective analysis of service (GSP) requests and liaison with all necessary departments within the Organization to perform such analysis.
• Ensure appropriate market data services are delivered to front office customers in a timely and efficient manner
• Facilitate the input of service changes into MDS2000 and maintain the inventory.
• Support MD month end closing, validation and allocations
• A day to day knowledge of the overall Market Data environment globally to be attained.
• Serve as "expert" on business usage of market data products and services
• Assist Global MD business owners (SPOC) in demand management.

Interested and Qualified Candidates can share their resume to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com