Job Description
Global Product Data Team Profile
The Global Product Team currently consists of 15 members located in West Conshohocken, PA, Mumbai, India and Boston, MA. The Team is responsible for creating and maintaining equity and fixed income securities and related reference data for Investment Teams, Surveillance, and other users of security master data clean-up/Projects. This includes a variety of equity instruments including common stocks, ADRs, GDRs, rights and warrants, and a variety of fixed income instruments including treasuries, mortgage-backed securities (MBS), asset backed securities (ABS), bank loans, collateralized debt and loan obligations (CDO, CLOs) and municipal bonds. We also work to ensure the quality, completeness, .and timeliness of the data for each of these types of instruments. The Team works in order management systems such as Aladdin, market data systems such as Bloomberg, data warehouses and a variety of internal systems.
The Team provides 24/5 coverage to traders globally and has set a service level agreement of 20 minutes for addressing all trader queries. This results in a high-paced environment and requires the Team to be diligent, work together across global offices and be responsive to our internal clients.
The successful individual will play a key role in ensuring high quality data is available and updated in our systems, including the GSD data warehouse, as this is a global application and the source for security master data used by several downstream critical applications across Asia, US, and Europe. Toward this end we employ a number of quality control reports and data quality checks requiring active monitoring to identify and resolve exceptions.
The Team also plays an active role in resolving a variety of reconciliation exceptions, including those identified between Aladdin a various custodians/accounting agent. In this effort we work closely with other IM Operations teams including Fixed Income and Equity Portfolio Services and Derivative Operations.
This position will be in the Mumbai, India office of Client and would require the individual to work closely with Operations teams
Primary Responsibilities
· Providing security master and reference data support to traders and other stakeholders across Asian, European, and American regions.
· Reviewing exception reports such as those for GSD and Aladdin on T+1 Basis and resolving the exceptions
· Resolving reconciliation exceptions such as researching and fixing coupon and amortization breaks between GSD and Aladdin, and cash and position breaks caused by security master data settings.
· Partnering with global teams in West Conshohocken and Boston for any security master related cleanups, new data points and related projects.
Skills Required
o Experience in the investment management industry.
o Strong knowledge of equity, fixed income and derivative security master and related reference data.
o Knowledge of Aladdin applications, particularly Security Master. Other modules such as Trade Entry, Dashboard, and Reconciliations a plus.
o Experience with data warehouses and data flows a plus.
o Skills with automation tools such as PowerBI, UIPath and Alteryx a plus
o Strong organizational skills with strict attention to detail.
o Demonstrated success working in a high volume, high intensity environment.
o Proven record of collaborating with colleagues across geographic and functional boundaries.
o Ability to ‘think out of the box’ and look for creative solutions.
o Demonstrated commitment to risk control and management.
o Demonstrated skills working on a team including clear communication, being proactive, handoffs and escalation as needed.
o Excellent oral and written communication skills.
o Professional and decisive with outstanding business judgment and ability to see issues through to resolution.
o Proficient computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Office.
