Analyst, Indices Product Specialist

Analyst, Strategy Indices, S&P Dow Jones Indices - USA
The Strategy team at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) is seeking an Analyst to support its initiatives in North America. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team as a product manager, providing S&P DJI's clients with indexing solutions in growing areas of the investment landscape: Thematics and Factors Investing. This multifaceted role includes collaborating with our partners in Sales and R&D in the full life-cycle of the process from design to launch and the maintenance process, including the financial health of the product line.

The Role:
The Analyst will play an integral role within Strategy Product Management - the global team responsible for the commercial success of Thematic and Factor indices. The role includes the following key responsibilities:

• Scope out structured and unstructured data -- and have opinions on how to get the data right
• Write and read code to build analytics around our current indices
• Conduct literature review, research, define and prototype new ideas pertaining to Thematics and Factors indices
• Involved in portfolio construction, back-testing, and quantitative analysis of various index strategies
• Coordinate with the rest of the Strategy Index team, as well as other functional groups including Global R&D, Sales, Marketing, Channel, and Index Management

What's in it for You:
The investment industry is in the midst of a tremendous structural shift brought about by technological changes and the shift from active to passive investing. This position sits squarely at the epicenter of this evolution.

The role will provide exposure to multiple products and asset classes within investment management.

The role will allow the Analyst to have impactful exposure to multiple groups within S&P DJI (Marketing and Communications, Channel management, Research & Design, Index Development, Client Coverage, and others), to clients such as structured product desks, asset managers and asset owners, exchanges, and other financial technology and data players.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Undergraduate degree required. Masters degree in a relevant field or progress towards a CFA Charterholder status a plus.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills are essential
• At least three years of relevant work experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Candidate would eventually have to deliver high quality presentations both internally to management and externally to clients. In addition, they would be responsible for creating other content.
• Hands-on programming skills (Python, VBA, others) are required
• Knowledge of financial packages such as FactSet, Capital IQ, Bloomberg, Barra, Axioma, etc. is desirable
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team. Candidate can effectively influence others and gain their consensus when needed.
• Demonstrated ability to handle steep learning curves; Candidate should be very comfortable dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty.

COMPLEXITY:
The position requires the ability to deal with a high level of technical complexity and the ability to explain that complexity to a wide audience. It is not expected that the individual be competent in any of the existing strategies, but they should have the background and the ability to tackle steep learning curves and drive discussions with extremely sophisticated clients.

Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only):
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $85,000 - $110,000. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information, visit https://www.spgbenefitessentials.com/newhires .
S&P Dow Jones Indices, a leading brand of the S&P Global, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. Over $1.25 trillion is directly indexed to Standard & Poor's family of indices, which includes the S&P 500, the world's most followed stock market index, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, the S&P Global BMI, an index with approximately 11,000 constituents, the S&P GSCI, the industry's most closely watched commodities index, and the S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index, the premier investable index for U.S. municipal bonds.

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Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.

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20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), PDMGDV202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group), SWP Priority - Ratings - (Strategic Workforce Planning)

Job ID: 277239
Posted On: 2022-09-26
Location: Virtual, New York, United States