Senior Analyst, Global Equity Indices Product Management
  • England,London
  • full-time
  • Competitive salary
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About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):
11

Title: Senior Analyst, Global Equity Indices Product Management

The Impact: S&P DJI indices serve as the foundation for investment products and portfolio benchmarking. They underpin leading exchange-traded derivatives, ETFs, structured products, OTC instruments, and index funds, playing a crucial role in the investment landscape.

The Team: The Global Equity Index Product Management team oversees a diverse set of index products, including global benchmarks, real estate indices, and sustainability indices. As asset class experts, we set strategic priorities to drive revenue growth. This team is integral to the Equity Icons product group at S&P Dow Jones Indices, providing client solutions, insights, thought leadership, and driving product strategy and financial health.

The Role: We are seeking a Senior Analyst to support our Global Equity Indices initiatives in Europe and globally. This role involves product development, financial monitoring, and providing indexing solutions to clients. The Senior Analyst will play a key role in ensuring the commercial success of Global Equity indices.

Key Responsibilities: *Define and execute product development strategy, focusing on sustainable investing trends
*Conduct market research and competitive analysis to support new product initiatives and strategic sales efforts
*Support Global Equity Indices through analysis and content creation for thought leadership materials (blogs, white papers, videos)
*Collaborate with the Research and Design team on index design
*Plan and coordinate tasks for the smooth and timely launch of new indices
*Work closely with global product management team members and support global initiatives
*Take direction from senior product management leadership and collaborate closely on projects with other product managers within the global equity indices team
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 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 (Index Governance, Index Management & Production, Marketing and Communications, Research & Design, Client Coverage, and others), to global clients such as asset managers and asset owners, structured product desks, other financial technology and data players.

Qualifications *Undergraduate degree required, master’s degree in a relevant field or progress towards a CFA Charterholder status a plus
*2-5 years of relevant work experience
*Familiarity with sustainable financial topics and industry best practices is highly desirable
*Self-driven with strong research and innovation skills
*Strong multi-tasking capabilities is a must for this dynamic role that touches on every aspect of the index life-cycle
*Strong analytical and quantitative skills are essential, comfortable working with large datasets
*Excellent written and verbal communication skills; candidate will eventually deliver high quality presentations both internally to management and externally to clients
*The position requires interacting with sophisticated clients and the candidate should demonstrate ability to ask questions and advise toward client solutions
*Programming skills (Python, R, SQL, VBA, others) are desirable
*Knowledge of financial packages such as FactSet, Capital IQ, Morningstar, Eikon, etc. is desirable
*Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team to effectively influence others and gain consensus
*Demonstrated ability to handle steep learning curves; candidate should be very comfortable dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty
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 workplac

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.

S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit spdji .

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

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Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, p
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