Data Operations - Associate

Your Team Responsibilities

The team member will be part of Shared Service Data operations team focusing on Business Activity classification function with specialization in Digital Assets. MSCI Data team research and evaluate companies, instrument and other asset classes on multitude of different factors. The team will be in charge of providing classification of Digital Asset and related asset types as per Datonomy methodology and manage their upkeep in systematic way. The position provides exposure to full life cycle of digital asset initiation, classification, ongoing maintenance and its derived used in products across MSCI Index and other business units.

Your Key Responsibilities

The candidate will be member of highly skilled team that solves complex problems involving but not limited to the following:

• Part of the team to re-engineer the Digital Asset classification operations.
• Work with engineering team to design, build and test system.
• Build AI/LLM augmented QA, source transparency and governance controls into the process.
• Integrate unique digital asset identifier and ongoing universe management process.
• Will also be responsible to work on other business classification as part of the larger team including issuer and business segment classification across different asset classes (Equities, Privates, Fixed Income issuers).
• Manage daily operations, coverage expansion, internal and client query management.
• Exposure to Equity, Fixed Income & other related indexes, performance and analytics; Exchange and vendor data feeds and symbology etc.
• Perform in depth analysis of data, analytics and workflows in order to improve processes and/or develop new work tools in collaboration with Tech and Development teams
• Collaborating across a global organization to service both internal and external clients in a shared services environment
• Partnering with our product and coverage organization to service first-rate clientele including many of the world’s central banks, leading financial institutions, hedge funds, and corporations.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• Masters degree in Finance/Economics from premier institute (including equivalents CFA, CA, FRM) or engineering degree with a solid experience in finance
• 2-5 years of relevant experience (Associate) / 5-7 years of relevant experience (Senior Associate)
• Working knowledge of financial markets data operations (Equity, Fixed Income, Alternate investments)
• Excellent communication skills (both written and presentation), ability to work in multi-cultural environment
• Self-starter and drive to work in individual capacity with minimum oversight
• Solid background in Excel and Working knowledge of SQL
• Experience working with IT teams, knowledge of charting tools (Tableau, Power BI etc.) and basic coding skills to build Proof of Concept models (Python, R, other scripting etc.) will be added advantage.

Desired Experience

• Exposure to content/research work in Alternate Asset class, especially digital assets will be a plus.
• Experience in working with global vendors will be a plus (Reuters, Interactive Data, Factset etc.)
• Exposure to different work shifts and schedules (but No US night shift)