Market Data Specialist

Market Data Integration Support - Techno Functional Specialist – Permanent

Location: Bengaluru

Experience: 2 to 4 years

Designation: Associate

Industry/Domain: ETL/Mapping Tool, VBA, SQL, Market Data Specialist, Capital Market knowledge

Apex Group Ltd has a requirement for Market Data Integration Specialist.

We are seeking an inquisitive and analytical thinker who will be responsible for ensuring the quality, accuracy, and consistency of pricing & reference data with recommended data providers in financial domain such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv and Markit. Role is responsible for developing approaches, logic, methodology and business requirements for validating, normalizing, integrating, transforming, and distributing data using data platforms and analytics tools.

Candidate will be responsible for maintaining the integrity of organizational critical data and supporting data-driven decision-making. Candidate will be a data professional with a technical and commercial mindset, as well as an excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.

Work Environment:

• Highly motivated, collaborative, and results driven.
• Growing business within a dynamic and evolving industry.
• Entrepreneurial approach to everything we do.
• Continual focus on process improvement and automation.

Technical/ Functional Expertise Required:

• Develop an understanding of
  reference and master data sets, vendor data (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Markit)
  and underlying data architecture, processes, methodology and systems.
• Should have strong knowledge of
  market data provider applications (Bloomberg, Refinitiv etc.).
• Develop automated frameworks to produce source and target mappings, data load and extraction process, data pre-processing, transformation, integration from various sources and data distribution.
• Work with business to analyse and understand business requirements and review/produce technical and business specification with focus on reference data modelling.
• Integrate business requirements into logical solution through qualitative and quantitative data analysis and prototyping.
• Strong knowledge on overall pricing and static data concepts like different investment types, pricing types, vendor hierarchy, price methodology, market value concept.
• Analyse complex production issues and provide solution.
• Produce detailed functional and technical specification documents for development and testing.
• Hands on experience in working on any
  ETL tools is mandatory
  .
• Strong command of
  SQL, VBA, and Advance Excel.
• Understanding of the
  funds
  administration
  industry
  is necessary.
• Intermediate knowledge of financial instruments, both
  listed
  and
  unlisted
  or
  OTCs
  which includes and not limited to derivatives, illiquid stocks, private equity, bank‐debts, and swaps.
• Testing and troubleshooting integrations and technical configurations.
• Effectively multi-task, schedule and prioritize deliverables to meet the project timelines.
• Ensure operational guidelines are updated & adhere to standards, procedures & also identify plan to mitigate risks wherever there is a control issue.
• Ability to contribute towards critical projects for product enhancements and efficiency gains.
• Good understanding of
  Geneva, Paxus
  , or any other accounting system.
• Self-starter with a quick learning ability, possessing strong verbal and written communication skills, and have an ability to present effectively.
• Maintenance and creation of standard Operating Procedure.
• Proficiency in an accounting system, preferably Advent Geneva or Paxus would be added advantage.
• An ability to work under pressure with changing priorities.

Experience and Knowledge:

• 3+ years of related experience in support/ technical in any accounting platform (Paxus/ Geneva).
• Connect with operation to understand & resolve their issues.
• Experience working data vendors (Bloomberg/ Refinitiv/ Markit)
• Able to handle reporting issue/ New requirement raised by operations.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting abilities.
• Strong Excel and Excel functions knowledge for business support.
• Create and maintain Business documentation, including user manuals and guides.
• Worked on system upgrade/ migration/ Integration.

Other Skills:

• Good team player, ability to work on a local, regional, and global basis.
• Excellent communication & management skills
• Good understanding of Financial Services/ Capital Markets/ Fund Administration