Reference Data Manager II

Elevate your career as a Reference Data Manager and redefine excellence in financial data management.

As a Reference Data Manager  within our team, you will manage and validate bond prices from third-party sources, ensuring accuracy against multiple market references. You will analyze price movements in relation to market news, liaising with pricing vendors to resolve discrepancies and minimize risk. Your role involves producing and analyzing valuation movements within client portfolios daily and monthly, contributing to the development of the pricing control process, and engaging in ad-hoc project work.

Job Responsibilities:

• Capture and validate daily bond prices from third-party sources against market references.
• Analyze price movements in relation to market news and expectations.
• Liaise with pricing vendors to resolve issues and minimize risk.
• Monitor systems for job success and resolve issues with technology teams.
• Prepare and send daily pricing and market impact summaries with supporting news.
• Generate and maintain month-end index rebalance and composition reports.
• Produce and analyze valuation movements within client portfolios daily and monthly.
• Complete all daily, monthly, and ad-hoc tasks and reporting accurately and to deadline.
• Resolve client queries promptly and professionally, participating in monthly meetings.
• Escalate all issues promptly and effectively to supervisor.
• Contribute to ongoing developments of the pricing control process & Engage in ad-hoc project work as directed.

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:

• 10+ years of experience in Fixed Income related roles.
• Previous experience in managing teams.
• Understanding and interest in stocks, bonds, options, and financial markets.
• Advanced MS Excel skills, including pivot tables and v-lookups.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:

• Knowledge of industry activities, particularly corporate actions and index benchmarking.
• Experience with pricing vendors like Bloomberg and Reuters.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and communicate effectively within a team environment.