SENIOR DATA ANALYST - INVESTMENTS

Midlothian  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Job description:

Core-Asset Consulting's client, a leading investment manager, has an opening for a Senior Data Analyst to join their Edinburgh team on an initial 6 month contract. The successful candidate will be a key member of the Investment Data Management team.

Core responsibilities:

  • Ensure relevant data is published accurately to downstream systems on a timely basis
  • Supervising the communication of the status of the Front Office Systems to users first thing each morning
  • Identify, analyse and resolve data exceptions and communicate impact of these to affected users in a timely manner
  • Validate daily data feeds and updating prices
  • Check the set up of new instruments and maintaining existing instruments
  • Set up new funds and maintain existing funds
  • Set up new benchmarks in conjunction with 3rd party providers
  • Maintain fund management structures
  • Maintain static data on the trading systems
  • Participate and be a key player in project related work
  • Proactively stay abreast of competitor and industry best practice in Data Management
  • Act as reference point, investigate and satisfactorily resolve questions and queries relating to data queries. within agreed service level agreement's (SLAs)
  • Understand and perform operational tasks utilising a number of risk systems - APT, UBS Delta and Risk Metrics

Core requirements:

  • Exceptional analytical skills
  • Broad and in depth understanding of the end to end functions of an investment management company and the investment process
  • Practical data management experience
  • Minimum of 2 years' experience in a Fund Valuation or Data Management function
  • Degree educated
  • Experience of Markit EDM, CRIMS, Thomson Reuters Products, FactSet, UBS Delta, and Bloomberg would be preferable
  • Advanced knowledge of Excel would be an advantage

Core-Asset Consulting offers specialist recruitment services to the investment management, financial services and accounting & finance markets across Scotland.

Start date
ASAP
From
Core Asset Consulting
Published at
15.09.2015
Project ID:
984272
Contract type
Freelance
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