Market Data Integration Specialist

For our business, for clients, and for you

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 organisational 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.
• Handsonexperienceinworkingon any ETL tools is mandatory.
• Strong command of SQL, VBA, and Advance Excel.
• Understandingofthefundsadministrationindustryisnecessary.
• Intermediate knowledgeoffinancialinstruments,bothlisted andunlistedor OTCs whichincludes and notlimited to derivatives,illiquidstocks,privateequity,bank‐debts,andswaps.
• Testing and troubleshooting integrations and technical configurations.
• Effectively multi-task, schedule and prioritize deliverables to meet the project timelines.
• Ensure operationalguidelinesareupdated & adhere to standards,procedures & alsoidentifyplan to mitigate risks wherever thereis a controlissue.
• Ability to contributetowardscriticalprojectsforproductenhancementsandefficiencygains.
• Good understanding of Geneva, Paxus, or any other accounting system.
• Self-starterwith a quicklearningability,possessingstrongverbalandwrittencommunicationskills, and have an ability to presenteffectively.
• Maintenance and creation of standard Operating Procedure.
• Proficiencyinanaccountingsystem,preferablyAdventGeneva or Paxus would be added advantage.
• Anabilitytoworkunderpressurewithchangingpriorities.

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

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.