Project Lead - Reference Data Operations

Job Description

Job Purpose

The primary purpose of this position is to analyze various data sets, gather and manage business requirements, design business solutions, and see said solutions to implementation. The incumbent will be required to lead and work with multiple teams to gain subject matters expertise, conduct feasibility studies, market analysis, define new processes as well as identify and implement process improvement opportunities. The incumbent will drive for solutions as they liaise and collaborate with various stakeholders for reference data teams such as our pricing, index, analytics and product management teams as well as our technology team to improve the quality, completeness, timeliness and breadth of multiple data sets.

The incumbent will serve as a subject matter expert for multiple data sets and present the Reference Data Operations (RDO) business needs to other stakeholders. They will have a deep understanding of complex processes, and business needs and present those concepts to others on the team. The incumbent must ensure that detailed gap analysis is conducted properly, identify opportunities and proposals for process improvements.

The fixed income and equities market consists of over two million active securities and the reference data provided by ICE Fixed Income & Data Services for said securities is used by our clients to make trading decisions, settle trades, make investment decisions, manage portfolios, analyze risk, create security master files, create client statements and conduct other back-office functions. Our reference data is also used by internal stakeholders such as the Evaluated Pricing, Index and Analytics groups said reference data plays an integral role in determining evaluated prices, determining whether or not a security should be added to or deleted from an index or indices, the weighted average of a security within an index and, performing a series of analytical calculations that are used both internally within ICE and externally by these stakeholder’s clientele.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution and delivery of strategic project or BAU releases.
• Coordinate and collaborate effectively with the project team, including but not limited to end users, product management, evaluations, index, portfolio analytics, quality assurance, project management and development teams to mitigate and assess project risks, eliminate ambiguities, and meet project deadlines.
• Maintain a comprehensive BRD library of detailed business requirements.
• Adhere to a set release cycle to ensure successful production implementation.
• Manage project submission library in preparation to yearly budget process.
• Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution.
• Oversee multiple projects within reference data in coordination with other members of the team.
• Provide recommendation and drive through with release cycles.
• Interact with vendors to gain understanding of their data and processing guidelines. Drive requirements by analyzing vendor content.
• Help senior management by creating insightful and pro-active reports and analysis for various corporate and business line initiatives.
• Manage resources in accordance with project(s) schedule.
• Lead discussions with vendors to determine product viability, best uses of content, impact analysis on downstream databases, products and analytics/drivers used by internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate testing effort with the IT Quality Assurance and Development teams.
  
  

• BA/BS in Finance, Economics or equivalent practical experience (excluding India)
• B. Tech in Computer Science Engineering.
• MBA/MBS in Finance, Economics or equivalent practical experience preferred (India)
• 5 + years directly working in reference data operations.
• Solid subject matter knowledge of related markets
• Understand application behavior.
• Certification in Business Analysis is preferred.
• Certifications in Project Management in preferred
• Ability to work in a fast paced, high pressured, fluid environment.
• Ability to distill large amounts of varied information into specific takeaways.
• Excellent attention to detail and high degree of demonstrated decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong excel skills required.
• Strong SQL skills required.
• Hands on experience on Python.
• Eagerness to learn and collaborate with others.