Well established International Investment bank, very attractive employer with great team and company culture. Located in London, they have a hybrid home / remote set up for employees to enjoy a great work / life balance.

Job Description
Main responsibilities:

• Take a lead role in reference data management services for the bank
• Creation and on-going data maintenance of financial instrument data across various asset classes include fixed income, convertible bonds, warrants, equities and derivatives.
• Monitoring data quality, performing reconciliations and carrying out validation exercises against various market data sources.
• Investigating and resolving data exceptions.
• Acting as a point of contact for queries from different business areas, building collaborative relationships with internal clients.
• Work with Technology developers to ensure enhancements are fully tested ahead of production release.
• Able to identify process and governance improvement opportunities to develop the reference data services.
• Assisting with new developments and projects to improve efficiency, productivity, and data standards.
• Identifying control weaknesses, process enhancements and efficiency relating to Data Services and recommending procedural and process changes.
• A subject matter expert on a range of financial instruments with an in-depth understanding of how they work and associated data attributes.

The Successful Applicant

• Experienced reference data professional who can provide enterprise wide reference data expertise.
• Good understanding of financial instruments including Equities, Convertible Bonds and Fixed Income products is a fundamental requirement.
• Experience working in similar data management functions, ideally a buy-side/investment banking environment or a reputable data management company.
• The capacity to work in an (internal) client facing role, liaising with senior stakeholders, working to deadlines.
• Self-starter and quick learner.
• Good communication skills, able to communicate with staff at all levels.
• Knowledge of derivative products such as Listed derivatives, CDS, IRS and Ascots advantageous.
• Experience with SQL as well as advanced Excel skills (VBAs, Macros etc.) would be advantageous.
• Experience working with Sybase databases and database schema knowledge advantageous.
• Experience working with Bloomberg BackOffice data files advantageous
• Experience working on systems such as Ion/Anvil and Fidessa advantageous.

What's on Offer
Currently a 6 month Interim contract (Inside IR35):

GBP600 - GBP800 PAYE. There is also an opportunity to apply for the permanent position longer-termLocated in London, City

Contact
Michael Warren

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