31 jul
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S&P Global
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Xico
**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 09
**About the Role**:
**The Role**: Data Operations Associate, Custom Indexing.
**The Team**:
The Custom index team under the Index Management and Production Group, empower clients to achieve any strategy by bringing their investment ideas to life.
We provide daily maintenance and calculation, corporate action management, index distribution, and constituent data via daily files.
We are also responsible of client's rebalances, reconstitutions and screenings of their custom indices.
**Responsibilities and Impact**:
**Responsibilities**:
Contribute to the continuous improvement of our processes and tools.
Preparing and calculating client custom indices.
This includes performing analytical research on companies to determine the composition of the index, adjusting data in our calculation system, and adjusting the data to conform to the rules of the index.
Must ensure timely and accurate delivery of real-time and end-of-day index data to clients and end users.
Maintain, update, and troubleshoot complex index models in excel on a daily basis.
Provide customer service to existing custom index clients as it pertains to their indices.
Quantitative analyses of index returns, weights, and constituents.
**What We're Looking For**:
**Basic Required Qualifications**:
Strong Math background and superior Excel/VBA skills along with Phyton coding knowledge is required to manage and manipulate large data sets while making processes automations.
Bachelor's Degree.
Advanced degree in math, actuarial science, computer science strongly preferred.
Basic understanding of equity index math and concepts, equity markets, commodities pricing, bond, and derivatives calculations (options, futures, swaps, forwards, etc.)
0 to 3 years of professional experience is required.
Internships experiences are considered, and recent college graduates are welcome to apply.
Must be able to demonstrate excellent analytical and quantitative capabilities to solve original, non-routine problems in a timely and insightful manner.
To be able to work under pressure.
Stress management.
Detail oriented with ability to consistently perform daily production tasks in a time-sensitive environment.
**Additional Preferred Qualifications**:
CFA/FRM level 1 or 2 qualification would be a plus but not required.
Must be able to work independently on multiple projects with mínimal direction or supervision
Requires excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to coordinate work done by multiple people and / or groups.
Ability to assume responsibility, work with others and manage projects.
Ability to learn new data and calculation platforms in a limited time.
About S&P; Global Dow Jones Indic e s
At S&P; Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum.
By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction.
We're the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P; 500 ® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ®.
More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world.
With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies.
What's In It For You?
**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter.
It requires a catalyst to be set in motion.
Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.
Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day.
We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow.
At S&P; Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities.
We Accelerate Progress.
**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective.
Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
**Our Values**:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
At S&P; General, we focus on Powering Global Markets.
Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead.
We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
**Benefits**:
We take care of you, so you can take care of business.
We care about our people.
That's why we
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