eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Markit Group

• Location

  UK-London

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  18 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  571163

The successful candidate will be working as part of the Equity Reference Data team, which is responsible for providing Corporate Actions and Reference data to a number of product groups within the Markit Equities division.

Duties & accountabilities

• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining data for a wide range of corporate action event types

• Implementation of changes to other data types i.e. reference data as a result of corporate actions

• Support for the existing corporate actions processes, and involvement in future developments

• Establish productive working relationships with both internal and external parties These will include data vendors, product heads and technology

• Involvement in Equity Reference Data related projects, including gathering requirements, analysis, liaising with development and project management teams to ensure delivery of the project

• Coordination with out source resources in India

• Coordination with key product areas in providing data support

• Assist with day to day management of resources

• Assist with operational and support procedures definition

Business Competencies

Education and experience

• Undergraduate degree level in a financial/quantitative discipline or equivalent

• Experience in financial data support, with a focus on corporate actions, typically through employment at investment banks, exchanges or in asset servicing

• Strong understanding of corporate action event types, and their impact on other data i.e. reference data and pricing

• Experience of maintaining corporate actions data, and the processes and risks involved

• Strong IT skills, preferably VBA and SQL experience

Management Experience

• Experience of managing both local and remote teams would be an advantage

Commercial Awareness

• Financial support services experience

• Reference and Corporate Actions data

Personal competencies

Personal impact

• Detail-oriented with strong problem solving skills

• Flexible and willing to adapt to changing situations

• Strong leadership skills

• Displays energy, drive and stamina

• Self starter

• Excellent team-working skills

Communication

• Good verbal and written communication skills with clients, team members and other teams is a must

Teamwork

• The position will be based in London, with additional resources located in Singapore and, potentially, New York. There is also responsibility for a number of out source resources in India.

Company overview

Markit was founded in 2001 as the first independent source of credit derivative pricing and has recently been announced as the fastest growing private company in the UK. Today, our data, valuations and trade processing services are regarded as the market standard in the global financial markets, helping our clients to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory requirements.

With over 1,300 institutions using our independent services as clients - including investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies - we provide round-the-clock support from our offices in London, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Toronto, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney.