Associate/Senior Associate (12 months contract), Data & Analytics Enablement

Temasek; Singapore; On-site; SGD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global investment company in Singapore is seeking an Investment Services Liaison to facilitate vendor relationships and manage data services. Ideal candidates will possess a Bachelor's degree with at least two years in financial markets, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in data management tools. Join our dynamic team and contribute to sustainable investment strategies, supporting both current and future generations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in financial markets or client service.
• Fresh graduates with relevant internship experience are welcome.
• Understanding of market data functions and services is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Be the key liaison for external information vendors.
• Manage invoice processes and ensure financial transparency.
• Maintain enterprise data subscription budget and perform reconciliations.

Skills

Analytical capabilities

Decision-making capabilities

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or equivalent

Tools

Bloomberg

S&P

FactSet

Refinitiv

MSCI tools

Job description

Temasek is a global investment company headquartered in Singapore, with a net portfolio value of S$389 billion (US$288b, €267b, £228b, RMB2.08t) as at 31 March 2024. Marking our unlisted assets to market would provide S$31 billion of value uplift and bring our mark to market net portfolio value to S$420 billion.

Our Purpose “So Every Generation Prospers” guides us to make a difference for today’s and future generations.

Operating on commercial principles, we seek to deliver sustainable returns over the long term.

We have 13 offices in 9 countries around the world: Beijing, Hanoi, Mumbai, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore in Asia; and Brussels, London, Mexico City, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Washington, DC outside Asia.

For more information on Temasek, please visit www.temasek.com.sg

For Temasek Review 2024, please visit www.temasekreview.com.sg

For Sustainability Report 2024, please visit www.temasek.com.sg/SR2024

Introduction

Investment Services (IS) serves as a value partner by delivering end-to-end investment support services to advance investment strategies. With a focus on operational excellence and scalability through digital innovation, IS bring together all investment support services spanning from deal advisory, valuation, trade and life cycle operations, enterprise and core data management, data and analytics enablement, investment accounting and sustainability reporting to deliver business outcomes.

The DAE team enables efficiency and scalability through data and digital innovation by establishing, trusted data foundations aligned to business outcomes. The team also enable self-service analytics and actionable insights with institutional data product harmonised analytical layer.

Responsibilities

• Be the key liaison for the external information vendors to ensure effective support: market data service delivery, contract inventory and invoice payment.
• Manages the team mailbox to address queries from internal and external stakeholders relating to service delivery, invoices or general data / trouble shooting issues.
• Updates and track users’ and enterprise feed subscriptions accurately in the contract inventory
• Invoice management including invoice reconciliation to agreed commercial terms, variance analysis and upload to Workday for authorization and payment. Process invoice according to internal controls, country tax requirements and aligning to payment terms.
• Responsible for Financial transparency in cost allocation for contracts centrally managed by Data COE with business responsible for their budget and spend. Generate quarterly allocation file to Finance for cost attribution to the individual business cost centers based on usage file provided by the vendors
• Responsible for yearly accrual review. Ensure the completeness and accuracy of the annual accrued expense through active engagement with Finance and Central Procurement Team.
• Manage firm-wide enterprise data subscription budget. Prepare the budget and accruals for Head of Data COE approval
• Reconcile workday data domain and reports integration to data spend dashboard
• Maintain automation tools/dashboard for reporting and proactively create or suggest improvement to replace manual workflow where appropriate
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor' degree/Business Administration or equivalent qualifications with minimum 2 years of experience in financial markets/experience in client service, procurement admin or payment management role, in
• Investment Asset Management Industry will be an advantage
• Fresh graduates with relevant internship experience are also welcome to apply
• Understanding of market data functions & services and able to see how each work streams’ process integrates will be an advantage
• Notably strong analytical and good decision-making capabilities and process and workflow oriented. Can size up issues quickly and adopt progressive steps to resolve situation and knows how/when to escalate
• Possess a strategic focus with the ability to analyse, understand of the data & investment business, formulate, and implement robust process
• Results orientated with an attention to detail and accuracy (For internal screening only) Demonstrated knowledge of external providers eg Bloomberg, S&P, FactSet, Refinitiv and MSCI tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Driven, self-starter, adaptable, organised, with experience and ability to multi-task well in a fast-paced and demanding environment
• Have good interpersonal skills and be able to work well as part of different teams and deal with multiple stakeholders
• Results orientated with an attention to detail and accuracy