Index Design Analyst

The Index Design Team and the Administration Teams, design, test and develop indices primarily in fixed income and credit, but also in equities and other asset classes.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

The individual will perform tasks associated with the design of indices:

Source, cleaning and organising time-series
Source, cleaning and structuring securities’s static data
Understand, specify and prototype local market conventions
Develop spreadsheets to prototype and manually calculate new indices
Draft index rules
Perform back-testing of indices
Test administration and production environments
Quality control of daily index production
For training purposes, and to ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of the index business, the individual will likely to rotate occasionally to do index administration

Skills and Experience Required:

A high degree of detail orientation is required
There will also be requirements to include equity indices as part of multi-asset class indices, some of which will include a dynamic allocation strategy. In these cases, the individual will be expected to work closely with other index teams in Markit
The individual needs to be, in order of importance
Energetic
Financially and mathetically literate
Basic quantitative studies, such as math, engineering, finance or a natural science preferred. No advanced degree required
Basic programming skills, such as VBA and basic SQL a plus
No management experience required, the individual is expected to be a strong team player, with proven track-record of working with people that are not functionally aligned to them, inside and outside of work
Medium requirement. We need someone who is detail oriented enough to build high quality, superior products
Pleasant personality, other people will need to want to work with him/her as the individual will not have direct reports. Looking for someone that is enthusiastic, energetic, detail oriented, team player
Good communication skills with clients and team members is a must
A team player

Please apply with CV and covering letter to careers@markit.com citing "Index Design Analyst" in your email.