Index Specialist
Company Description
MarketAxess operates a leading trading platform that enables fixed-income market participants to efficiently trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments using MarketAxess' patented trading technology. Over 1,800 institutional investors and broker-dealer firms are active users of the MarketAxess trading platform. MarketAxess also offers a number of trading-related products and services, including: market data to assist Customers with trading decisions; connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing; technology services to optimize trading environments; and execution services for exchange-traded fund managers and other Customers. Through its Trax® division, MarketAxess also offers a range of pre- and post-trade services, including trade matching, regulatory transaction reporting and market and reference data, across a range of fixed-income products.
MarketAxess maintains its headquarters in New York and has offices in London, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Amsterdam, São Paulo, Singapore, and Hong Kong. MarketAxess is an independent, publicly traded company (NASDAQ:MKTX Click Here). There is a lot more to learn about us and working at our company! Please read more about us at www.marketaxess.com.
Job Description
The MarketAxess Research team is seeking an Index Specialist in New York to lead the product side of the team’s new global bond index platform. This includes all aspects of building, delivering, and administering product in line with the Product Manager’s vision. There is significant hands-on responsibility, but also interaction across the organization with development, sales, marketing, and data teams. This person will be an integral part of Research and will benefit from Research’s pricing, liquidity, and analytical expertise, as well as data access and a shared code base.
What You’ll Do
- Build MarketAxess’ bond index platform.
- Own all the necessary data and flows, including inputs, outputs, methodologies
- Set, implement, and maintain a set of standards for indices
- Work with the development team to productionize the indices
- Design other aspects of a commercial index business in accordance with industry practices
- Support the Index Product Manager, marketing, and sales on index materials and metrics
- Respond to ad-hoc questions related to the indices or related data
- Build and maintain Tableau dashboards with index analytics
- Periodic reporting and analytics on KPIs related to the indices
What You Bring to the Table
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree, preferably in a quantitative field (finance, statistics, business)
- 3-5 years of experience working with indices
- Knowledge of fixed income markets, related data, and analytics
- Ability to work independently within the larger Research team
- Experience working with SQL
- Experience with programming languages for data analysis (Python/R)
- Experience cleaning and manipulating large data sets
- Experience with AWS is a plus
- Experience with Tableau (or other BI tools) is a plus
- Advanced Excel skills are preferred
Additional Information
Benefits and Perks
In addition to working on cutting edge technology and in our culture of innovation, collaboration, and openness, we offer:
- Work in our brand new offices at 55 Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan
- Free snacks and coffee as well as occasional lunches and after-work drinks
- Casual dress-code
- Healthcare options
- 401(k) match
- Training and tuition assistance
- Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships and similar, and access to on-site healthcare
MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal and state law.