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