Remote Market Data Analyst, Sr Consultant Level

Summary

DataCatalyst is a consulting firm that specializes in Data Management, Monetization, and Governance. They are seeking a remote Market Data Analyst with comprehensive knowledge of Capital Markets Market Data services and strong MS Excel skills to join their team. The analyst will perform data profiling, act as a subject matter expert, suggest data quality rules, collaborate with client IT stakeholders, and use mapping and statistical software to clean, manage, and analyze data.

Requirements

• Comprehensive knowledge of Capital Markets Market Data services; including on non-traditional unique data providers
• Awareness of compliance and governance issues pertaining to the usage of Market Data
• Strong MS Excel skills, and experience using SQL
• Solid business knowledge as it relates to the hedge fund industry and capital markets (equities, fixed income, derivatives, etc.)
• Experience in working closely with Senior stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree
• 2-3 years of data management experience
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent data analysis skills, including the ability to work with and profile large data sets
• Understanding of master data management and data governance practices
• Excellent attention to detail
• Collaborative team player with the ability to work independently

Responsibilities

• Perform basic profiling of incoming data to confirm that the data is as expected based on the definition of the data
• Act as a subject matter expert to support data analysts in data mapping activities
• Suggest data quality rules based on knowledge of industry standards
• Supporting data definition and metadata capture of inbound data feeds
• Collaborate with client IT stakeholders to execute complex data and mapping analyses
• Use mapping and statistical software (e.g. GIS, Python, Tableau) to clean, manage, and analyze data
• Participates in analysis, design, and potentially ETL development as part of Agile / Scrum Development Team