Senior Fixed Income Reference Data Specialist

Sharp Decisions; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp Decisions is seeking a Senior Analyst to join the Fixed Income Operations team in Charlotte. The role focuses on maintaining accurate security and account reference data to support trading operations, with an opportunity to mentor junior staff and lead without direct management duties.

You will work within a small team to ensure data quality across Impact, Bloomberg, and internal systems, driving process improvements and supporting onboarding enhancements.

Qualifications

• For 5+ years in Fixed Income Operations.
• Strong experience with Reference Data or Security Master.
• Experience supporting floating-rate securities.
• Experience supporting fixed income products.
• Understanding of security setup, account setup, trade economics, accrued interest calculations and security factors.
• Experience investigating pricing and reference data discrepancies.

Responsibilities

• Maintain fixed income reference data within Impact and Bloomberg.
• Perform security setup and ongoing security maintenance.
• Manage account setup and reference data validation.
• Update floating-rate securities, security factors and other attributes.
• Investigate discrepancies between Bloomberg, Impact and internal calculations.
• Troubleshoot pricing, accrued interest, factors and reference data breaks.
• Partner with Middle Office to resolve trade exceptions due to data issues.
• Oversee work by Broadridge outsourcing and ensure quality.
• Participate in improving onboarding and intake processes.
• Support automation efforts on the Impact platform.
• Escalate issues and drive resolution independently.

Skills

Fixed Income Ops

Reference Data

Security Master

Floating-rate

Pricing discrepancies

Problem solving

Tools

Impact

Bloomberg

Broadridge

Job description

Sharp Decisions is seeking a Senior Analyst to join the Fixed Income Operations team in Charlotte. The role focuses on maintaining accurate security and account reference data to support trading operations, with an opportunity to mentor junior staff and lead without direct management duties.

You will work within a small team to ensure data quality across Impact, Bloomberg, and internal systems, driving process improvements and supporting onboarding enhancements.