Job Description
Market Data Analyst
Hours Per Week:
35
Contract Type:
Full Time
Contract type: Permanent Full Time 35 hours per week
Location: London
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
We are looking for a Market Data Analyst to join a collaborative team where you can develop your expertise while taking on meaningful responsibility. You’ll work across the market data lifecycle, build relationships with key vendors and partner with teams across Data Management, Data Governance, Change and Technology.
It’s a role with plenty of variety and exposure, giving you the opportunity to develop both your technical and commercial understanding across market data, contracts, licensing, costs and governance. For someone ambitious and keen to learn, there’s real scope to build experience quickly and accelerate your career.
About the role
- Manage day-to-day relationships with market data vendors, overseeing service reviews, contractual arrangements, SLAs, performance metrics and associated costs.
- Act as the primary point of contact for market data matters, providing subject matter expertise across vendors, products and licensing while delivering a high-quality service to business stakeholders.
- Develop a strong understanding of business operating models and market data requirements, ensuring services and solutions effectively support the needs of teams across RLAM.
- Coordinate the onboarding of new market data licences, working collaboratively with Legal, Procurement, Technology and business teams to ensure agreements and services are implemented efficiently.
- Provide market data expertise into change initiatives, assessing the impact on existing licences and services while ensuring data requirements meet relevant legal, regulatory and governance requirements.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve market data processes, controls and ways of working, contributing ideas and expertise to wider projects and change activity.
- Support effective risk management across Market Data Services, ensuring key risks and controls are understood, monitored and appropriately managed in line with regulatory requirements and internal frameworks.
About you
- Proven knowledge of Market Data – having experience with Bloomberg, FTSE, MSCI etc.
- Experience of ESG market data providers.
- Comfort and familiarity with all types of market data, in its various formats.
- Experience in market data inventory software – such as MDSL, FITS.
- Experience of reading and understanding market data vendor contracts.
- Proven, in-depth knowledge and experience of integrated asset management business applications and data.
- Excellent organisational skills, ability to prioritise and balance multiple activities simultaneously.
About Royal London Asset Management
Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of the Royal London Group, is one of the UK's leading fund management companies working with a wide range of clients across the globe to achieve their investment goals. Our long-term, client-driven focus means that we have a long-standing commitment to responsible investment. We act as responsible stewards of our clients’ capital, exercising their rights and influencing positive change.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.