The Client

My client is a market leading buy-side focused FinTech business that spun-out of one of the largest and most successful hedge funds in the world. Their offering is a suite of technology and investment management infrastructure services that they provide to the world's leading hedge funds and asset managers.

What You'll Get

• An opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting FinTech businesses in the market with a clear goal to become the first choice trading technology provider with asset managers and financial institutions alike, across the derivatives trading market.

• An opportunity to work in a high talent density organisation, alongside an exceptional team who have joined the business from top tier hedge funds and other major financial markets institutions.

• Market leading compensation, including an annual discretionary bonus, regular salary reviews and ongoing opportunities for financial advancement.

• Benefits including pension, healthcare, life insurance, 26 days holiday and 10 further days working from wherever you want in the world amongst others.

What You'll Do

The data operations analyst role has been created to support the rapid growth and diversification of the data services within the organisation. My client is looking for a candidate with broad data & operations experience in financial services to be able to operate inside a business as usual function while at the same time having a detailed eye on scaling our services with technology and process improvement. Key responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring the systematic & manual set up & maintenance of reference data against customer focussed SLA’s.
• Providing domain expertise for reference data, spanning all aspects of instrument static i.e. identifiers, classifiers and descriptive data relating to financial instruments (all asset classes); corporate actions; product classifications; client / book hierarchies; and other data sets e.g. holiday calendars.
• Monitoring of automated intraday and batch reference data flows with timely resolution of breaks.
• Supporting the enhancements and re-architecting of existing data capture and validation processes, to include facilitation of enterprise data management / security master platform implementation.
• Continuous review and enhancement of data capture processes and associated control environment e.g. via automation and robust process / procedures framework.
• Ensuring that all instrument reference data is maintained in an accurate and timely manner in all necessary systems and data repositories in coordination with client on boarding & operational teams.
• Produce outputs relating to data quality monitoring and control processes as required to support periodic operational reporting and to support prioritisation around process improvement.

What You'll Need

• 2+ years’ data analysis experience in either an educational, operational, control or change capacity with focus on instrument reference data and analytics.
• Knowledge of global markets, securities, crypto and / or derivatives businesses (buy or sell side).
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and interact with quant / technology teams at all levels.
• Ability to translate / understand requests from users into actionable steps.
• Ability to understand databases and data usage as well as to ask questions / interrogate the data to help glean meaningful information that can be used throughout the business.