Associate Product Specialist FI PD - Hyderabad
- Factset Systems India
- 0 - 4 years
- Hyderabad
- 5 years ago
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Job Description
PROCESS BRIEF/ SUB- PROCESS BRIEF
FactSet s Product Development department is responsible for implementing new products and enhancing existing ones. The mission of the department is to deliver simple, world- class solutions by collaborating with clients to understand their needs, with cross- functional project teams to share those insights, and with Sales to bring our solutions to market.
The Analytics group develops applications and solutions which facilitate tasks for portfolio managers, researchers, risk analysts, and performance analysts. Group members have strong financial backgrounds and understand the workflow of each of these investment professional types.
The Fixed Income Analytics Product Development group develops analytics which are used in Fixed Income Portfolio Analysis, Security Analysis, Asset Liability Management (ALM), and off platform data feeds. The mission of the group is to create and ensure high quality fixed Income analytics which facilitate the investment process of fixed income focused investment professionals.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Associate Product Specialist will work on a variety of projects related to enhancing Fixed Income Products. Following is the partial list of responsibilities:
- Be the first line of defense to answer questions about Fixed Income Analytics from sales/consulting and reconciliation team
- Undertake comprehensive testing of bugs and enhancements
- Integrate commercial data into fixed income and risk analytic engines
- Third party vendor testing
- Monitor nightly error log and propose cleanup solutions
- Monitor daily QA reports
- Actively manage and share ideas to improve work processes and output
- Develop and maintain internal documentation used within the team.
- Have a clear understanding of the clients needs and workflows
- Identify and respond to client demand for new initiatives and enhancements to analytics solutions
- Develop requirements specifications from business requirements and help engineering/QA to understand the same.
- Work with engineers to fix bugs, test enhancements, and manage releases and client migrations
- Work with Knowledge Management team to help write documentation as well as internal and external client communications
- Undergraduate (Bachelor's) degree in Math/ Statistics/ Engineering/ Finance or related field
- MBA Finance or Master s degree in some combination Mathematics/Statistics/Finance
- 0- 4 years of experience dealing with portfolio analysis/equity analysis/fixed income analysis /portfolio optimization/MPT analysis at both conceptual and application level
- Knowledge of Fixed Income Products
- Articulate communicator, with excellent language skills - both oral and written
- Has good understanding of financial clients needs and workflows
- Liaise effectively (both written and oral) with engineers and data providers
- Ability to work independently and within a group
- Interest in learning modern technologies/knowledge
- Basic understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) PDLC (Product Development Life Cycle)
- Working towards CFA/FRM/CIPM (Most Preferred if any one level passed)
- Technical skills: SQL/Python/Advanced excel
- Prior experience with FACTSET platform
Job Classification
Industry: IT-Software, Software ServicesFunctional Area: IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance,
Role Category: System Design/Implementation/ERP/CRM
Role: System Design/Implementation/ERP/CRM
Employement Type: Full time
Education
Under Graduation: Any Graduate in Any SpecializationPost Graduation: Any Postgraduate in Any Specialization, MBA/PGDM in Marketing
Doctorate: Doctorate Not Required, Any Doctorate in Any Specialization
Contact Details:
Company: FactSet Systems IndiaLocation(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills: Stock exchange Fixed income Portfolio analysis Reconciliation Software development life cycle Workflow SDLC Testing SQL Python
Factset Systems India
FactSet is a leading provider of financial data and analytic applications for investment management and investment banking professionals around the globe. FactSet offers instant access to financial data and analytics to thousands of analysts, portfolio managers, and investment bankers at the worl...
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