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
