Reference Data Specialist
JPMorgan Chase
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Daily third-party price capture & validation of bond prices versus multiple market sources
- Analyze price movements against market news and expectations
- Liaise with pricing vendor to resolve issues and minimize risk
- Monitor systems for related job success and resolve issues by working with technology teams
- Prepare and send daily pricing and market impact summaries with supporting market news
- Generate and maintain month-end Index rebalance and composition reports by garnering information on new bond issuance and auction/buy-back activities
- Produce and analyze valuation movements within client portfolios on a daily and monthly basis
- Complete all daily, monthly, and ad-hoc tasks and reporting as required accurately and to deadline
- Resolve client (Global Index Research Group) queries promptly and professionally
- Participate and present in client monthly meetings
- Escalate all issues promptly and effectively to supervisor
- Contribute to ongoing developments of the pricing control process
- Ad-hoc project work as directed
- · 4-5 years of experience in Fixed Income related roles
- · Previous experience in managing teams
- · Demonstrate an understanding and interest in stocks, bonds, options, and financial markets and products
- · Knowledge of industry activities - particularly corporate actions, index benchmarking, stock markets and fixed income products
- · Pricing vendor knowledge, i.e. Bloomberg, Reuters
- · Advanced MS Excel skills, including pivot tables and v-look ups
- · Mathematical mindset demonstrating strong numerical skills
- · Strong analytical/problem solving skills and attention to detail
- · Self-motivated and proactive with the proven ability to work accurately and under pressure to meet deadlines
- · Demonstrate ability to effectively communicate within a team environment and interact across departments
- · Ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast paced environment