Fund Data Specialist

We are currently recruiting for a Fund Data Specialist to join a multinational investment management corporation on a permanent basis in London. We are looking for a detail oriented, self-motivated, and collaborative Fund Data Specialist; you will be responsible for the representation of products across public websites and services. These products cover an extensive range including iShares ETFs, Mutual Funds, Closed End Funds, Indexes, and Model Portfolios. You will use their knowledge of financial instruments and markets to build an excellent understanding of our product offering and technology platform. You will need to have excellent communication and proficient negotiation skills to work with a broad group of often senior executives in Product, Sales, Marketing, Technology, Legal and Compliance to ensure that you can represent the product in the best possible way. You will partner with product teams to help navigate the firm and enable the setup of data feeds with internal and external providers. Finally, you will analyse, manage, document and execute operational and technology changes to support Blackrock’s ever evolving product offering.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Interact with various stakeholders to understand the data needs of their product and deliver solutions which address the specific requirements of a product or business.
• Aid in the formation and execution of platform changes to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Manage the delivery of solutions from ideation to completion, including testing and on-going support of applications.
• Manage existing production systems and processes, while implementing strategic solutions that help to create common data products.
• Be the subject matter expert on Fund data and teach other teams how to navigate the firm and implement scalable changes.
• Liaise with business areas in order to provide end user support and training.
• Partner with team members, Onboarding, Product, Legal, Compliance, and other groups on everyday processes to help meet the channel’s needs.
• Work closely with members of the engineering team to develop new ideas and concepts, and to constantly identify opportunities to improve existing processes.

Skills/Requirements:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Organized, accurate, and detail oriented.
• Experience with product management and/or software development.
• Experience of producing detailed business requirements documentation.
• Ability to grasp complex systems and focus on multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
• Break down complex problems and explain in simple terms or diagrams.
• 3+ years of experience in Financial Services or Investment Management.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, economics or finance-related field.
• Formal product management or business analysis qualification.
• Experience SQL

If you feel you have the skills needed for this position please do apply now.