Associate, Fixed Income Pricing

OSTTRA • New York, NY

6h • Onsite

About The Position

About the Role: Grade Level (for internal use): 10 The Team: The S&P Global Fixed Income Pricing Team has responsibility for providing coverage, quality, and service across several pricing products. The team provides support for pricing millions of instruments a day (internally and externally) while proactively enhancing the methodology for pricing Fixed Income securities. S&P Global services are used by institutions to help them monitor risk, mark-to-market, and develop accurate forecasting models. Responsibilities and Impact: This opening provides an excellent opportunity for a candidate with Fixed Income markets (Corporate Bonds preferred) and data management interests and experience. We are looking for a highly motivated and detail-oriented self-starter to help support the needs of our Americas client base and work with other team members around the globe. The position focuses on daily pricing responsibilities, as well as working with large dataset to enhance, identify, and implement pricing quality to further S&P Global Fixed Income Pricing Services.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience working with financial datasets at financial services firm
• Bachelor Degree in Financial engineering, Finance, Economics, Mathematics or a related relevant field of study
• Understanding of financial markets, knowledge of and exposure to Fixed Income products, preferability corporate bonds
• Proven analytical, problem-solving, and quantitative skills.
• Proficient in Excel, Python, API
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact professionally with teams, senior members of the organization and clients
• Team player attitude is vital for the role. This includes giving and receiving constructive feedback, as well as a deadline-orientated approach to group projects
• Right to Work Requirements: This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
• We require all external candidates who reach the final stage of our interview process to attend at least one in-person interview, which is ordinarily at your nearest S&P Global office. This must be completed before we can proceed to an offer.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
• Knowledge of PowerBI, SQL, and S3 is advantageous

Responsibilities

• Leveraging data analysis tools while working with large datasets to draw meaningful insight and make recommendations
• Will propose and help implement process improvements to realize enhanced quality and improve efficiency across S&P's pricing products
• Work across the pricing products and the broader organization to effect change and identify opportunities to grow the business (special focus on sales and business development)
• Responsible for supporting and supervising the day-to-day running of S&P Global's Fixed Income Pricing business
• Will be required to gain an in-depth product knowledge of S&P Global's pricing products and be able to speak effectively on them internally and externally
• Provide exceptional client service by responding to client questions on pricing and methodology, and performing price challenges
• Will be required to build external relationships with clients in addition to receiving feedback, and acting on feedback from customers on our products
• Responsible for daily evaluation in the form of assessing the quality of data provided and removing data sources that do not pass rigorous data quality checks
• Adjust daily pricing assumptions to reflect security performance in current market conditions
• Generate metrics and reports on the quality of pricing data

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level