Senior Analyst, Fixed Income Core Product Management - London - ref. c2359119
About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use): 11
S&P Dow Jones Indices
The Role: Senior Analyst, Fixed Income Core Product Management
The Firm
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) is the world's leading resource for benchmarks and investable indices. Our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios, and developing investment strategies.Our fixed income indexing solutions include recognized branded indices such as those for bonds (iBoxx. S&P) and credit derivatives (CDX & iTraxx).
The Team
Focused on developing solutions for a broad range of clients, the Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (FICC) team is responsible for the P&L of outcome-oriented index solutions such as iBoxx, and S&P bond indices globally including ESG indices, CDS indices, Commodities and Alternatives.This is an exciting opportunity to join a product team in a growth stage.
The Role
The team is seeking a Senior Analyst to support and promote our Fixed Income Core bond indices product suite globally. The Senior Analyst will play a critical role in supporting the team as they maintain current and develop new products, by performing and producing analytical work within and across teams as pertaining to the Fixed Income product families.
The Senior Analyst will, alongside commercial teams, will be a key player in developing and executing critical team processes that support the development and achievement of the Fixed Income business strategy. This is a highly technical role, but also requires effective collaboration skills while having a commercial-focused mindset in achieving the team's strategic priorities.In addition to being a hands-on Product Manager, the Senior Analyst will be an integral team member and collaborate across adjacent teams to achieve project goals.
What's in it for you- Regular interaction with senior internal stakeholders and clients to develop new strategies and act as subject matter expert on methodologies
- A challenging but rewarding role that requires collaboration with a wide range of internal teams and clients
- Visibility to various teams and leadership within our organization and with our clients
- The opportunity to be a representative and spokesperson for our products
- A high degree of variety where no two days are the same
- Focusing on the EMEA market, work across the Fixed Income Core team to support success of FI product lines; help identify new product opportunities to help drive commercial success
- Be viewed as a key subject matter expert with in-depth knowledge of index methodology and processes; possess intimate understanding of internal processes including product launch lifecycle
- Support team members in client engagement and analysis including external presentation / Powerpoint and data analysis and mining / Excel; be a leader with respect to understanding and articulating components of underlying index methodologies and construction logic
- Support the coordination of index launch process; collaborate with broader PM team and relevant internal stakeholders (R&D, Operations, Governance, Sales, etc).
- Support internal team initiatives, including materials relating to business strategy and processes
- Contribute to product innovation and enhancements, including around index methodology consultations and annual index reviews
- 5+ years of experience working with fixed income in the index industry or related
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent in mathematics, finance, or a related field
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills as well as attention to detail
- Strong communication skills - written, verbal and presenting
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Entrepreneurial mindset with willingness to roll up the sleeves and execute
- Strong data management skills, advanced Excel
- Abilities in Powerpoint for product pitches and presentations
- Programming skills (Python, R, Matlab) a plus
Flexible Working
We pride ourselves on our agility and diversity, and we welcome requests to work flexibly. For most roles, flexible hours and/or an element of remote working are usually possible. Please talk to us at interview about the type of arrangement that is best for you.We will always try to be adaptable wherever we can.
Return to Work
Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return-to-Work initiative, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace.
About S&P Global Dow Jones Indic e s
At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction.We're the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500 ® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ® . More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world.
With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies.
S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world's leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.For more information, visit spdji .
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