Market Data Analyst London, England
MUFG
Full Time
London, England
37845 - 54671 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 6th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.
Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.
Overview of Organisation and Department/Section :
MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia.. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.
As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do.We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.
Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com.
The Information and Data Management (IDM) department is responsible for master data management and MI production across all international subsidiaries of MUSHD and EMEA region for MUFG Bank. The mandate for the department is to:
- Develop a business led, technology enabled data strategy and roadmap for delivery of data management target state
- Develop a data governance framework and establish data related policies and procedures to improve the value of data as an enterprise asset
- Source, validate and maintain master data repositories of market and reference data
- Agree data quality standards with business owners and track metrics and continuously improve data processes
- Investigate and analyse data issues, identify the root cause and recommend control improvements
- Develop and support an MI platform optimised for the aggregation of data and the reporting of processed and analysed information
- Deliver accurate, timely and insightful MI to the international business to support executive decision making and to meet statutory and regulatory reporting requirements.
The team operates internationally with staff currently based in London, New York and Hong Kong.
The Master Data Management team in London has two main functions:
- Market Data: Includes EOD pricing, IPV prices, time series and curve maintenance
- Reference Data: Includes counterparty, common reference, instrument and organisational data
Main Purpose of the Role :
We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our Market Data team. The successful candidate will play a key role in the daily market data process by ensuring data is processed in a timely and accurate fashion, while driving improvements and facilitating change. Our team is responsible for all types of market data across all asset classes providing an excellent opportunity for exposure to Front Office, P&L, Operations and Risk management functions. The implementation of a strategic Enterprise Data Management system where our team is playing a key support role provides the opportunity to the individual to contribute to the successful path towards an international data model which is essential for the firm’s success.
Key Responsibilities:
In this role, you will be responsible for Market Data processes across MUFG’s banking arm and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement. Under this arrangement, you will act and make decisions on behalf of both the bank and the securities business, subject to the same remit and level of authority, and irrespective of the entity which employs you.
- To work as a team member in the Market Data function within the Information Data Management department
- Support the Master Data Strategy
- Sourcing, cleansing, validating, and distributing Market data
- Ensure all market data captured is accurate, reliable and serves cross-functional and cross-entity purposes
- Identify technical or process improvements to enhance efficiency and reduce operational risk
- To ensure that desk procedures are kept up to date and that improvements are made when necessary in an effort to improve efficiency
- Review proactively the market data process, report any issues and recommend possible actions
- Build positive and pro-active working relationships with the key stakeholders across the business
- Active involvement in key department and firm projects and initiatives aiming at benefits realisation and control
Skills and Experience:
- A minimum of 2:1 (or equivalent) in a Bachelor’s degree
- Relevant qualifications/accreditations e.g. CFA. (beneficial)
- Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel essential, VBA beneficial)
- Practical / working knowledge of market data requirements and issues/challenges across asset classes with a focus on fixed income and derivatives
- Desirable system experience; Murex, Markit EDM
- Experience of working with stakeholders at various levels
Personal Requirements:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
- A proactive, motivated approach
- The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work
- Team player with a professional approach
- A structured and logical approach to work
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong analytical/numerical skills
We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.
MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.
We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.
