Job Purpose
At Intercontinental Exchange, our exchanges and clearing houses across North America, Europe and Asia, deliver risk solutions across asset classes and time zones. Whether its hedging, investing or capital raising, our markets, clearing houses and data help transform challenges into opportunities. As a Market Analyst, you will join a team that is critical to the success of the company by managing the daily cleared products settlement pricing and product listings on the ICE trading platform. This role is primarily responsible for developing and maintaining processes to analyze historical and top-day pricing data to generate daily closing prices for Futures and Option products.
The Market Analyst will be part of a Data Governance Operations team embedded within the settlement operations team, responsible for reviewing daily reports covering settlement exit criteria thresholds, price fidelity, and fixing reports. Within the review, the analyst will comment on qualifying the levels and remediate any issues found same day. Additional responsibilities will include being the 1st line of contact for any Risk inquiries related to failures within the Risk Factor reports, tracking the threshold breaches and providing weekly reports to Management, and monitoring the criteria/suggesting reviews/changes to calibration levels with justification on recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Analyze pricing data to identify trends and relationships to reflect fair valuations across ICE asset markets including Energy, Interest Rates, Agriculture, Equity Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, FX, Physical Environmental.
- Generate daily closing prices for cleared forward and option contracts.
- Handle ongoing support and maintenance for existing ICE products.
- Work directly with Sales, Development, QA and Operations.
- Produce periodic reports, document and update internal procedures, and assist with special projects as required.
- Provide front-line customer service support related to cleared product pricing.
- Responsible for reviewing daily reports covering settlement exit criteria thresholds, price fidelity, and fixing reports.
Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business or relevant financial degree; combination of applicable training and/or experience in lieu of degree
- 3+ years of work experience in an analytical role
- Strong working knowledge of Excel; Visual Basic or other analytical applications is preferred
- Experience in working with large Excel spreadsheets
- Exposure to commodity markets or financial trading environment background is preferred
- Knowledge of future and option market structure and pricing
- Excellent interpersonal, analytical, written and verbal communication skills
- Must be self-directed and be able to work within a team environment
- Strong attention to detail and ability to multi-task under pressure in a fast-paced deadline driven environment
- Professional customer facing telephone manner
- Position may involve work outside of normal business hours
