Senior Analyst, Factor and Dividend Indices Product

Senior Analyst, Factor and Dividend Indices Product Management

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**:
11

The Factor and Dividend Indices team at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) is seeking a Senior Analyst to support its initiatives in both EMEA and global. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team as a product manager, providing S&P DJI's clients with indexing solutions in growing areas of the Factor and Dividend investment landscape. This multifaceted role includes serving as the owner of the product development and maintenance process as well as the financial health of the product line.

**The Role**

The Senior Analyst will play an integral role within Factor and Dividend Indices Product Management - the global team responsible for the commercial success of Factor and Dividend indices. The role includes the following key responsibilities:

- Help define and execute the product development strategy, considering broad market trends towards sustainable investing norms
- Support the suite of Factor and Dividend Indices and products via analysis and content creation for thought leadership materials (blogs, white papers, videos, and other media)
- Work closely with Research and Design team on index design
- Plan, coordinate, and implement required tasks to ensure a smooth and timely launch of new indices
- Collaborate with product management team members globally and support global initiatives

**What's In It For You**

The investment industry is in the midst of a tremendous structural shift brought about by technological changes and the shift from active to passive investing. This position sits squarely at the epicenter of this evolution.

The role will provide exposure to multiple products and asset classes within investment management. You will join a high performing team where you will have the opportunity to learn from local and international colleagues.

The role will allow the Senior Analyst to have impactful exposure to multiple groups within S&P DJI (Marketing and Communications, Channel management, Research & Design, Index Development, Client Coverage, and others), to clients such as structured product desks, asset managers and asset owners, exchanges, and other financial technology and data players.

**Qualifications**
- Undergraduate degree required. Masters degree in a relevant field or progress towards a CFA Charterholder status a plus
- 2-5 years of relevant work experience
- Self-driven with strong motivation to research and innovate on new idea
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills are essential, comfortable to deal with large datasets
- Solid understanding of factor investing
- The position requires interacting with sophisticated clients. The ability to learn and ask questions is paramount
- Programming skills (Python, R, SQL, VBA, others) are desirable
- Knowledge of financial packages such as FactSet, Capital IQ, Bloomberg, Barra, Axioma, etc. is desirable
- The position requires the ability to deal with a high level of technical complexity and the ability to explain that complexity to a wide audience. It is not expected that the individual be competent in any of the existing strategies, but they should have the background and the ability to tackle steep learning curves and drive discussions with extremely sophisticated clients

**Flexible Working**

We pride ourselves on our agility and diversity, and we welcome requests to work flexibly. For most roles, flexible hours and/or an element of remote working are usually possible. Please talk to us at interview about the type of arrangement that is best for you. We will always try to be adaptable wherever we can.

**Return to Work**

Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return-to-Work initiative, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace.

**About S&P Global Dow Jones Indic e s**

At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. We're the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500 ® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ®. More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world. With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies.

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