Apprentice, Market Data Administration

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 05

**About the Apprentice Role**:
**Duration**: - 11 Months
Title
- Apprentice

**The Team**:
CARM (Content Acquisition & Rights Management) supports the sourcing and licensing of 3rd party content used to power S&P Global’s products and services, and subsequent management of those data supply relationships for and on behalf of “CARM’s Internal Clients”: optimizing data contracts and associated spend, facilitating data sharing across the organization, and taking an active part in data governance initiatives (rights management, audit management and risk mitigation).
CARM’s Internal Clients are S&P Global (Corporate) and associated business groups: Sustainable1 and Kensho, and 4 of SPGI’s divisions: S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Global Commodity Insights and S&P Global Mobility.
The CARM team sits within the Corporate group. CARM and MDA (Market Data Administration) personnel are in New York (NY) and Princeton (NJ), Andover (MA), Boulder (CO), London, Paris, Essen, Hong Kong, Gurgaon and Bangalore, and support all geographic regions in which CARM’s Internal Clients conduct business. Centralization of these efforts enables CARM to leverage the scale of S&P Global, create efficiencies, eliminate redundancies, reduce 3rd party content/services costs, and better manage risk.

You will join a team of industry experts who will work with you to accelerate your development. With exciting learning opportunities at its core, we'll help you focus on building the essential skills needed for a successful and meaningful transition into the professional world. We provide industry-leading data, software and technology platforms and managed services to tackle some of the most difficult challenges in financial markets.

**Impact**:
We help our customers better understand complicated markets, reduce risk, operate more efficiently, and comply with financial regulations. Our services benefit the entire financial enterprise, from traders, portfolio managers, risk managers, compliance officers and operations teams to regulators and many others.
You will have the opportunity to experience a high-level of collaboration across geographically spread over stakeholders. We have a collaborative, global, quality Market Data Operations team that is accustomed to helping one another learn and excel while working to continuously improve the level of quality delivered to our internal and external stakeholders.

**Responsibilities**:
Collect, synthesize and record contractual and related data into financial inventory management tools.
Cleanse, refine and standardise inventory management data.
Researching, Identifying and organizing contractual agreements into repositories based on established record keeping structures.
Liaison with internal and external stakeholders across geographies.
Recording and reconciliation all Market Data invoice information in inventory tracking system - Optimize Spend.
Validate and Process vendor invoices using Optimize Spend and internal A/P systems.
Create Purchase Orders for invoice payments as needed.
Monitor and respond to vendor inquiries on invoice payment status in a timely manner.
Input information from Contracts into Optimize Spend.
Use internal tools to track invoice frequency and payment status.
Process requests to add, cancel or re-assign licensed services due to terminations or changes within the business.

**What We’re Looking For**:
**Required Qualifications**:
Fresher - Commerce and Finance Graduate. Post Graduate will be an advantage.
Skilled on Excel, Macro, Power
Knowledge of Financial Markets including Stock Exchanges and Market Data.
Knowledge of contractual agreements and clauses.
Understanding of legal terms of data agreements.
Ability to document requirements and specifications.
Keen to learn data inventory management tools
Strong communication skills and ability to produce clear, concise and detailed documentation.
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
Willing to work in in a 1-10 pm shift from office - Regular

What’s In It For You?

**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

**Our Values**:
Integrity, Discovery,