Senior Market Data Analyst

Royal London Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer pension matching up to 14%

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Royal London in the City of London seeks a Senior Market Data Analyst to manage market data throughout its lifecycle, from acquisition to usage and archiving. You will partner with stakeholders, oversee vendor relationships and licensing, and drive governance and cost controls across Market Data Services.

You will collaborate with Legal, Procurement and Technology to ensure compliant onboarding and updates to licences, while supporting strategic and regulatory change initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven knowledge of market data, including Bloomberg, FTSE, MSCI.
• Experience with ESG market data providers.
• Experience reading and understanding market data vendor contracts.
• Proven experience with integrated asset management applications and data.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day relationships with market data vendors, including service reviews, SLAs and costs.
• Act as primary point of contact for market data matters, providing SME expertise to stakeholders.
• Develop understanding of business operating models and market data requirements across RLAM.
• Onboard new market data licences with Legal, Procurement and Technology teams.
• Provide market data input into change initiatives, assessing licence impact and regulatory compliance.
• Identify opportunities to improve market data processes, controls and ways of working.
• Support risk management for Market Data Services in line with governance.

Skills

Market Data

Vendor management

ESG data

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Asset management data

Organisational skills

Tools

MDSL

FITS

Job description

In everything we do, our people make the difference.

We are looking for a Senior Market Data Analyst to join our Market Data Services team and play a key role in managing market data throughout its lifecycle, from acquisition and delivery through to usage and archiving.

Working closely with the Head of Market Data, you’ll help shape the team’s day-to-day priorities while acting as a trusted partner to stakeholders across the business. You’ll provide market data expertise and insight, manage relationships with key data vendors, and support business, strategic and regulatory change.

You’ll also work collaboratively across Data Management, Data Governance, Change and Technology to ensure market data solutions align with our wider data strategy and business needs. Alongside this, you’ll oversee market data licensing, contracts and expenditure, identifying opportunities to manage costs effectively while ensuring accurate reporting, strong governance and compliance with licensing requirements.

About the role

• Manage day-to-day relationships with market data vendors, overseeing service reviews, contractual arrangements, SLAs, performance metrics and associated costs.
• Act as the primary point of contact for market data matters, providing subject matter expertise across vendors, products and licensing while delivering a high-quality service to business stakeholders.
• Develop a strong understanding of business operating models and market data requirements, ensuring services and solutions effectively support the needs of teams across RLAM.
• Coordinate the onboarding of new market data licences, working collaboratively with Legal, Procurement, Technology and business teams to ensure agreements and services are implemented efficiently.
• Provide market data expertise into change initiatives, assessing the impact on existing licences and services while ensuring data requirements meet relevant legal, regulatory and governance requirements.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve market data processes, controls and ways of working, contributing ideas and expertise to wider projects and change activity.
• Support effective risk management across Market Data Services, ensuring key risks and controls are understood, monitored and appropriately managed in line with regulatory requirements and internal frameworks.

About you

• Proven knowledge of Market Data – having experience with Bloomberg, FTSE, MSCI etc.
• Experience of ESG market data providers.
• Comfort and familiarity with all types of market data, in its various formats.
• Experience in market data inventory software – such as MDSL, FITS.
• Experience of reading and understanding market data vendor contracts.
• Proven, in-depth knowledge and experience of integrated asset management business applications and data.
• Excellent organisational skills, ability to prioritise and balance multiple activities simultaneously.

About Royal London Asset Management

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of the Royal London Group, is one of the UK's leading fund management companies working with a wide range of clients across the globe to achieve their investment goals. Our long-term, client-driven focus means that we have a long-standing commitment to responsible investment. We act as responsible stewards of our clients' capital, exercising their rights and influencing positive change.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.

Only candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK or Ireland can undertake this role.
Unfortunately, Royal London is unable to provide visa or work permit sponsorship.