Role Purpose:
The Fixed Income Index Associate supports the management of indexes. This entails monitoring, reviewing, and recreating the indexes, and conducting root cause and impact analysis should it be required.
Role Responsibilities:
- Builds knowledge Indexes including gauging levels of complexity, maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the intricate nature of how the market operates (e.g. cycles and terminology).
- Understands and appropriately applies Index Management policies, procedures and controls, challenging policies to ensure they are relevant based on real-world events and making recommendations to change these where vital.
- Reviews and recreates more complex Indexes, advising and updating relevant teams of appropriate changes (e.g. processes, data).
- Analyses markets and data to understand the root cause of changes to indexes. Conducts impact analysis on changes affecting, and caused by, indexes and communicates the impact to internal and external collaborators.
- Provides advice and mentorship to internal partners in Data Management and across the organisation on specialist indexes. Working with relevant teams to prevent future incidents and recommending index changes where required.
- Develops knowledge in specific indexes, maintaining an understanding of how changes in the market affect indexes.
- Communicates' market and index changes to clients; indicating the cause and effect of the change.
- Maintains the integrity and accuracy of indexes, and reviews data to ensure completeness, authenticity, accuracy and timeliness!
Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree or equivalent
- Some related business experience
- Previous experience in an Index related role desirable but not essential as full training provided
