
Associate, Fixed Income Index Management
- Taipei City
- Permanent
- Full-time
The position is a dynamic team with index management responsibilities across FTSE Russell’s fixed income benchmark products. The Index Management team works hand-in-hand with various teams that span across client engagement and development teams in bringing new product solutions to the client; in addition to monitoring fast changing global fixed income landscape and supporting the management of standard and structured indexes.Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities
- Builds specialist knowledge in specific indexes including gauging levels of complexity, maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the intricate nature of how the market operates.
- Understands and appropriately applies Index Review and Management policies, procedures and controls, challenging policies to ensure they are relevant based on real-world events and making recommendations to change these where vital.
- Reviews and recreates more sophisticated indexes, advising and updating relevant teams of appropriate changes.
- Analyses markets and data to understand the root cause of changes to indexes and communicates the impact to internal and external customers.
- Provides advice and guidance to internal partners and across the organization on specialist indexes, working with relevant teams to prevent future incidents and recommending index changes where vital.
- Develops specialist knowledge in specific indexes, maintaining an understanding of how changes in the market affect complex indexes.
- Communicates market and index changes to clients, indicating the cause and effect of the change.
- Maintains the integrity and accuracy of indexes, and reviews data to ensure completeness, authenticity, accuracy and timeliness.
- Collaborate with different partners with an understanding for diverse backgrounds and respect for different viewpoint.
- Monitor quality checks on multi-asset solutions to identify issues.
- Assist in the production of regular reports and new product development to support index & analytics multi-asset solutions.
- Bachelor's degree in business, Economics, Statistics or numerate subjects.
- This is an individual contributor role that requires dealing with multiple priorities and changing requirements.
- Finance, Commerce or equivalent analytical degree with financial market work experience.
- Moderate experience in an index-related role.
- Database querying (SQL) and VBA ability is a plus.