Market Data Integration Specialist

CO_AFATI Apex Fund Services LLP; Pune City; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm is looking for a Market Data Integration Specialist. This role requires a strong analytical thinker with experience in ETL tools, SQL, and market data providers such as Bloomberg and Refinitiv. The ideal candidate will ensure the quality of pricing and reference data and develop solutions for data integration. Knowledge in capital markets and financial instruments is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with market data providers like Bloomberg and Refinitiv.
• Hands-on experience with ETL tools is mandatory.
• Strong command of SQL and VBA.

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality and consistency of pricing & reference data.
• Develop automated frameworks for data integration and transformation.
• Test and troubleshoot integrations and configurations.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Team player

Stakeholder management

Education

3+ years of related experience in support/technical

Tools

SQL

VBA

ETL tools

Excel

Job description

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Market Data Integration Specialist

Apply locations Pune, NOB Bulding time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id JR-0014743

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

Market Data Integration Support - Techno Functional Specialist – Permanent

Location: Bengaluru

Experience: 2 to 4 years

Designation: Associate

Industry/Domain: ETL/Mapping Tool, VBA, SQL, Market Data Specialist, Capital Market knowledge

Apex Group Ltd has a requirement for Market Data Integration Specialist.

We are seeking an inquisitive and analytical thinker who will be responsible for ensuring the quality, accuracy, and consistency of pricing & reference data with recommended data providers in financial domain such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv and Markit. Role is responsible for developing approaches, logic, methodology and business requirements for validating, normalizing, integrating, transforming, and distributing data using data platforms and analytics tools.

Candidate will be responsible for maintaining the integrity of organisational critical data and supporting data-driven decision-making. Candidate will be a data professional with a technical and commercial mindset, as well as an excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.

Work Environment:

• Highly motivated, collaborative, and results driven.
• Growing business within a dynamic and evolving industry.
• Entrepreneurial approach to everything we do.
• Continual focus on process improvement and automation.

Technical/ Functional Expertise Required:

• Develop an understanding of reference and master data sets, vendor data (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Markit) and underlying data architecture, processes, methodology and systems.
• Should have strong knowledge of market data provider applications (Bloomberg, Refinitiv etc.).
• Develop automated frameworks to produce source and target mappings, data load and extraction process, data pre-processing, transformation, integration from various sources and data distribution.
• Work with business to analyse and understand business requirements and review/produce technical and business specification with focus on reference data modelling.
• Integrate business requirements into logical solution through qualitative and quantitative data analysis and prototyping.
• Strong knowledge on overall pricing and static data concepts like different investment types, pricing types, vendor hierarchy, price methodology, market value concept.
• Analyse complex production issues and provide solution.
• Produce detailed functional and technical specification documents for development and testing.
• Hands on experience in working on any ETL tools is mandatory .
• Strong command of SQL, VBA, and Advance Excel.
• Understanding of the funds administration industry is necessary.
• Intermediate knowledge of financial instruments, both listed and unlisted or OTCs which includes and not limited to derivatives, illiquid stocks, private equity, bank‐debts, and swaps.
• Testing and troubleshooting integrations and technical configurations.
• Effectively multi-task, schedule and prioritize deliverables to meet the project timelines.
• Ensure operational guidelines are updated & adhere to standards, procedures & also identify plan to mitigate risks wherever there is a control issue.
• Ability to contribute towards critical projects for product enhancements and efficiency gains.
• Good understanding of Geneva, Paxus, or any other accounting system.
• Self - starter with a quick learning ability, possessing strong verbal and written communication skills, and have an ability to present effectively.
• Maintenance and creation of standard Operating Procedure.
• Proficiency in an accounting system, preferably Advent Geneva or Paxus would be added advantage.
• An ability to work under pressure with changing priorities.

Experience and Knowledge:

• 3+ years of related experience in support/ technical in any accounting platform (Paxus/ Geneva).
• Connect with operation to understand & resolve their issues.
• Experience working data vendors (Bloomberg/ Refinitiv/ Markit)
• Able to handle reporting issue/ New requirement raised by operations.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting abilities.
• Strong Excel and Excel functions knowledge for business support.
• Create and maintain Business documentation, including user manuals and guides.
• Worked on system upgrade/ migration/ Integration.

Other Skills:

• Good team player, ability to work on a local, regional, and global basis.
• Excellent communication & management skills
• Good understanding of Financial Services/ Capital Markets/ Fund Administration

Disclaimer : Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.

Our Story

About Apex Group

We are dedicated to driving positive change in financial services while fuelling the growth and ambitions of asset managers, allocators, financial institutions, and family offices. Established in Bermuda in 2003, the Group has continually disrupted the asset serving industry through our investment in innovation and talent. Today, we set the pace in asset servicing and stand out for our unique single-source solution and unified cross asset-class platform which supports the entire value chain, harnesses leading innovative technology, and benefits from cross-jurisdictional expertise delivered by a long-standing management team and over 13,000 highly integrated professionals.

We’re a people-powered business, and our people are full of ambition. Together, we’re inspired to lead the new era of data and tech enabled service. Bringing new products and services to market. Sharpening our client focus. Disrupting the market to exceed expectations. Innovating across a range of specialisms. With our focus on making a difference to our people, our planet and our society, you’ll experience more here than you would at most other companies.

Working at Apex

Prepare to accelerate.

We’re a people-powered business with a vision to inspire a new era of service-led FinTech. We’re expanding globally and offering more to our clients. This means you get more opportunities to grow with us. So prepare to accelerate. We’ll make sure the time and effort you put in takes you further, faster.

Positive change starts with you.

We’re a people-powered business with a vision to inspire a new era of service-led FinTech. We’re expanding globally and offering more to our clients. This means you get more opportunities to grow with us. So prepare to accelerate. We’ll make sure the time and effort you put in takes you further, faster.

The journey is yours to own.

When you stretch yourself, you grow. We want you to explore ways of working that will see you thrive as part of something bigger. We’ll help you with a solid structure, challenging projects, vibrant networks, supportive colleagues and approachable leaders. All the things you need to own your unique journey.