Market Data Sourcing Business Analyst

NYC Global Investment Bank

J Harlan Group is currently conducting a search for a Market Data Sourcing Business Analyst – America’s Sourcing and Vendor Management at a NYC Global Investment Bank.

Based in New York or Philadelphia as part of a global team you will work closely with the business units to provide analysis, advice, and guidance as it relates to financial Market Data including financial content and analytics products. You will participate and lead strategic and business driven initiatives to help drive efficiencies and cost management.

With your first-class experience in Market Data you will provide advice and analysis on market data content and market data products across asset classes and internal business units.

The firm will look to your excellent data driven mindset to understand, interpret and define business requirements in relation to both sell and buy side trading operations and their use of market data.

Making strong internal relationships with your superb interpersonal skills you will interact with stakeholders, operations and technology teams to analyze and constantly strive for cost effective ways to use data across the enterprise. These interpersonal skills will also be utilized to develop and maintain strong relationships with our market data vendors and exchanges.

Your attention to detail and process-driven mindset will allow you to add value, matching the best product and content to your user needs, contract management, validating commercial framework, overseeing terms & conditions, evaluating vendor and product offerings and clearly understanding what can and can’t be done with vendor and exchange licensing and products working closely with Market Data compliance team.

Responsibilities:

• Providing advice and analysis on market data products
• Interpreting and defining business requirements as well as analyzing more cost-effective ways to use data across the enterprise.
• Your relationship building skills will be utilized as you effectively interact with business stakeholders, operations and technology teams as well as developing and maintaining strong relationships with our market data suppliers.

5+ years of relevant Market Data procurement/market data experience in the financial services industry, as well as experience working with or for market data vendors such as Refinitiv (LSEG), Bloomberg and FactSet and other market data vendors.

Strong academic record and a BA/BS degree

An individual who loves solving deep and complex business problems regarding acquisition and distribution of financial market data and wants to have an outsized impact with the products they deliver. An individual with a passion for market data, high level of intellectual curiosity, a commitment to excellence and an unparalleled drive to deliver world-class software.

They seek candidates who are high-energy self-starters who want to join an investment banking firm on the leading edge of the global markets. The management team needs individuals of the highest professional caliber who are leaders, problem solvers, analytic, detail-oriented, and entrepreneurial. Everyone at the firm works in a highly collaborative and charged environment.

Successful candidates are:

• Analytic and relentless in pursuit of the right answer
• Strong communicators who excel at rapid synthesis
• Able to demonstrate sound business judgment
• Able to digest complexity while maintaining an understanding of the “big picture” of business needs
• Team players who are energized by a collaborative enterprise
  

If you or anyone in your network would be interested in this opportunity, please send resume to Jerry Goldberg at jgoldberg@jharlan.com or directly contact us at (212) 792-0099

About the Client:

The firm is a major Global Investment Bank with expertise in banking, they operate in over 50 countries and employ over 14,000 people worldwide. They’re one of the largest financial services providers in the world, and are also engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate banking, and wealth and investment management. They provide large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs.

The firm’s employees maintain the highest professional and ethical standards. The firm has earned a reputation for honesty, fair dealing, and transparency in a competitive industry. They believe that these standards are the foundation for superior investment performance and are critical to delivering performance to clients

Salary range for this position: $100,000 - $209,000/Year. Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, peer and market data, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. You may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. They offer a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave, Parental Leave and Vacation), Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for their employees including:

• Extensive knowledge of market and reference data Strong analytical skills
• Demand management skills, maintaining an understanding of end user requirements, product trials/replacements, market data reviews, and product licensing, as well as negotiation skills and relationship management experience
• Project management experience with product integrations, upgrades, trials, displacements, onboarding of new services, reviews, and improving internal processes
• Experience of interpreting contractual and commercial terms, ideally from a procurement or sales perspective, and the subsequent procurement management lifecycle
• Experience working with Asset Management datasets is advantageous.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with lively, organic, highly collaborative environments

  Education:

• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
• One wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave
• Primary caregivers are eligible for 20 weeks’ paid leave along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks paid leave for secondary caregivers
• Paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Range of benefits to support your physical, psychological and financial wellbeing
• Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioral health network with counselling and coaching services
• Recognition and service awards