QuantitativeSpecialist

Job Description

What s in it for you:

• Design and deliver technical solutions to internal and external clients.
• Apply and learn new technical, math and finance skills.
• Act as a regional Investment Management market feedback consolidation source for regional product, content, and delivery enhancements. Work closely with Product Management to provide feedback and rank enhancement requests.
• Provide product training to clients, and document technical client interactions in Salesforce to share with the broader organization.
• Learn and understand new datasets as they are deployed through the Xpressfeed loader, ClariFI, or other mechanism, and communicate the advantages of these datasets effectively to clients and prospects.
• Get direct exposure to buy side clients and the quantitative investment techniques they use.

Responsibilities:

The Investment Management Quantitative Specialist is a client-facing representative for S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Their responsibilities include:

• Act as a product specialist for the ClariFI Platform by understanding the application of ClariFI for complex buy side workflows, conducting training, troubleshooting problems, answering product questions, and providing complex daily product support to a client base of equity research analysts, portfolio managers, data scientists and risk management professionals.
• Configure and manage sophisticated software environments and dependent integrated data feeds.
• Assist the client onboarding process with a thorough understanding of the client s workflow, and how Market Intelligence s content; feed and platform solutions (including ClariFI and various enterprise delivery platforms) may enhance that workflow.
• Facilitate a positive experience for the client by bringing together the appropriate resources within Market Intelligence and the client s organization.

Progressive responsibilities include:

• Partner with Relationship Management teams to drive client renewal and retention.
• Conduct product demos as needed and help to design the best solution to fit a prospect s or client s needs.
• Develop a complete understanding of competitors products and be able to articulate Market Intelligence s relative capabilities.
• Develop a firm understanding of the diagnostic sales process and employ its principles and techniques when engaging with a prospect or client. Understand the commercial pricing model and the client s use of platforms and data to inform pricing.
• Advise users on financial modeling, numerical analysis, and process efficiencies and are responsible for all quantitative engineering, account management and pre-sales activity for clients of our institutional products and services, particularly the ClariFI Platform, and the quantitative/ quantamental products offered by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

What we re looking for:

• Backgrounds vary among Investment Management Specialists, but technical skills and an interest in learning finance are necessary. Software application specialists adept at troubleshooting technical problems, Market data specialists from the buy-side, technical and content experts at other market data vendors are actively being sought for this role. Candidates need to be able to learn quickly and work independently within a team framework.

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Science or Engineering.
• Excellent communication, training and presentation skills.
• 1-2 years experience troubleshooting problems associated with computer software applications.

Additional desirable qualifications:

• Experience with various scripting languages (Python, R, Matlab, SQL, etc) and/or other computer systems engineering,
• Good understanding of the equity investment process (with a focus on quantitative security analysis).
• Knowledge of Compustat or Capital IQ products (data, software, or feeds).
• A good understanding of company fundamental data.
• Familiarity with industry-leading financial data and delivery platforms.
• Fluency in second languages including Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, French, German and/or Spanish.

Keyskills :
capitaliq marketdata salesprocess financialdata riskmanagement equityresearch productsupport computerscience producttraining technicalskills clientonboarding commercialmodels accountmanagement rod