Data Analyst (Market Research)

Role Overview

We are looking for a functional Data Analyst to support our investment and research teams by managing, analysing, and validating market and research data sourced from leading data vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, FactSet, and similar platforms.

The role is front-office aligned and will work closely with Portfolio Managers, Research Analysts, and Risk teams, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and timely data to support investment decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

Market & Research Data Analysis

Extract, analyse, and interpret market, pricing, fundamental, and reference data from external data vendors

At least 6 years exp as a business/technical/data analyst within technology and/or business changes within the financial services /asset management industry.

Asset-specific data: This includes data related to financial instruments reference data like asset specifications, maintenance records, usage history, and depreciation schedules.

Market data: This includes data like security prices, exchange rates, index constituents and licensing restrictions on them.

Support equity and/or fixed income research by preparing clean, well-structured datasets

Understand and manage different data types such as security master data, prices, corporate actions, financial statements, and benchmarks

SQL-Based Data Handling

Write complex SQL queries to extract, join, and validate vendor and internal investment data

Perform historical data analysis and ad-hoc queries requested by portfolio and research teams

Support integration of vendor data with internal portfolio, holdings, and performance datasets

Data Quality & Governance

Identify and resolve data quality issues including missing data, outliers, and discrepancies across vendors

Reconcile data between multiple sources (e.g., Bloomberg vs Refinitiv)

Collaborate with internal data engineering and vendor management teams to define trusted data sources

Reporting & Analytics Support

Prepare analytical inputs for portfolio analytics, performance attribution, and risk reporting

Support recurring and ad-hoc reports used by investment and senior management teams

Contribute to improving data workflows and analytical processes

Required Skills & Qualifications

Mandatory

Strong hands-on experience with SQL (joins, subqueries, aggregations, window functions)

Direct experience working with market data vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, FactSet, MSCI, S&P, or equivalent

Good understanding of capital markets, including equities and/or fixed income instruments

• Advanced Excel skills for financial and data analysis