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Credit Derivative Valuation Data Analyst
Markit Portfolio Valuations is looking for a data analyst to sit within the product team covering credit derivatives on loans, bonds and structured finance products. This team specialises in building quantitative models for pricing vanilla and exotic derivatives across these asset classes.
Duties and Accountabilities:
We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic graduate to work on:
- Providing regular and ad-hoc support to the pricing team
- Maintaining and enhancing existing data feeds
- Building tools to automate data insertion and processing tasks
- Developing rules for cleaning market data
- Liaising with other business units internally to source new data
Skills and Experience:
- Degree in a quantitative discipline
- Experience with Excel and VBA
- Programming experience in any language
- Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines
- Strong problem solving skills
- Service driven with strong customer orientation
- Keen to expand knowledge of derivatives
- Interest in financial markets
- Must be detail-oriented, thorough and able to use own initiative to solve problems
- Strong communication skills required to be able to communicate effectively within the team, across business units within the company, clients, sales and technology teams
Please apply with CV and covering letter to careers@markit.com citing "Credit Derivative Valuation Data Analyst" in your email.