Bloomberg
Equity Index Production Analyst
Bloomberg, PRINCETON, NJ
Bloomberg is a leading provider of financial benchmarks and custom index services. This includes investment and market analysis of both alpha and beta sources, portfolio benchmarking and performance measurement, asset allocation, and the creation of index tracking funds and index-based structured products.
Our beta/benchmark platform, Bloomberg Index Services Ltd (BISL) is an outstanding provider of fixed income, inflation-linked, and swaps indices offering unmatched market coverage and a full suite of customized client solutions for benchmarking and informational needs. The BISL platform also includes a diverse family of alpha generating strategy indices that offer quick and easy access to out-performance sources and a quantitative way to express investment strategies, in markets that would otherwise be difficult to access. Index products are available across multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, derivatives, and alternative investments.
What's the Role?
You will be responsible for handling all aspects of the daily production and rebalance processes of the Global Equity Index product. You will ensure that index data is calculated and published accurately and on time every day. As well as ensuring client needs are met in an efficient and timely manner. You will work with the Engineering team to design and build the tools and technology required for the aforesaid tasks.
Our Bloomberg Index business is in a growth stage, and it is an exciting time to join the team to take our business to the next level. Index Production Analysts are knowledgeable in one or more products and apply their subject matter expertise to produce and deliver timely, accurate, and comprehensive index data to our clients for asset management. To do so, they use their operations, finance, and technology skills to handle the daily calculation, quality control and dissemination of index products and to innovate products and processes to support the index business.
We'll trust you to:
Apply if you think we're a good match! We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are.
Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Bloomberg provides reasonable adjustment/accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable adjustment/accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable adjustment/accommodation include but are not limited to making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email AMER[redacted] (Americas), EMEA[redacted] (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), or APAC[redacted] (Asia-Pacific), based on the region you are submitting an application for.
Our beta/benchmark platform, Bloomberg Index Services Ltd (BISL) is an outstanding provider of fixed income, inflation-linked, and swaps indices offering unmatched market coverage and a full suite of customized client solutions for benchmarking and informational needs. The BISL platform also includes a diverse family of alpha generating strategy indices that offer quick and easy access to out-performance sources and a quantitative way to express investment strategies, in markets that would otherwise be difficult to access. Index products are available across multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, derivatives, and alternative investments.
What's the Role?
You will be responsible for handling all aspects of the daily production and rebalance processes of the Global Equity Index product. You will ensure that index data is calculated and published accurately and on time every day. As well as ensuring client needs are met in an efficient and timely manner. You will work with the Engineering team to design and build the tools and technology required for the aforesaid tasks.
Our Bloomberg Index business is in a growth stage, and it is an exciting time to join the team to take our business to the next level. Index Production Analysts are knowledgeable in one or more products and apply their subject matter expertise to produce and deliver timely, accurate, and comprehensive index data to our clients for asset management. To do so, they use their operations, finance, and technology skills to handle the daily calculation, quality control and dissemination of index products and to innovate products and processes to support the index business.
We'll trust you to:
- Run daily production tasks, responding to events raised in the index monitoring console
- Contribute meaningfully to the analysis, evaluation, and product vision of the index product offering
- Perform index rebalance evaluations--including analysis of membership inclusions and omissions
- Work with both our clients and internal partners in response to index data related queries, while communicating product vision and building consensus among our senior leadership team
- Work closely with the Product and Engineering teams, to develop workflows, quality assurance processes and product improvements
- Establish and implement index management procedures and methodologies to reflect the needs of the global equity markets, including ESG
- Conduct root cause, impact, and risk analysis for incidents in preparation for problem management review with product, legal, and compliance teams
- Lead a variety of projects related to new index development, product maintenance and product support
- A Bachelor's degree or higher in relevant data technology or financial field, or equivalent professional work experience
- 3+ years of global equity index experience
- Experience specifically with equity corporate actions handling, with a broad understanding globally
- Experience with managing and building out workflow tools, data manipulation, ETL, data analysis, data quality and data science tools. E.g., SQL, QlikSense, Python, Excel, etc.
- Proven commitment to enhancing and developing products / processes
- Strong attention to detail and high degree of proven decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, capable of building enthusiastic support for new ideas along with strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Ability to build partnerships with cross-functional teams and facilitate interactions with Engineering, Data, Sales, Product and Support
- A Master's Degree and/or MBA, CFA charter
- Advanced excel skills and SQL
- Experience building/maintaining indexes and validation models
Apply if you think we're a good match! We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are.
Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Bloomberg provides reasonable adjustment/accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable adjustment/accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable adjustment/accommodation include but are not limited to making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email AMER[redacted] (Americas), EMEA[redacted] (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), or APAC[redacted] (Asia-Pacific), based on the region you are submitting an application for.