Company overview

Markit was founded in 2001 as the first independent source of credit derivative pricing and has recently been announced as the fastest growing private company in the UK. Today, our data, valuations and trade processing services are regarded as the market standard in the global financial markets, helping our clients to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory requirements.

With over 1,300 institutions using our independent services as clients - including investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies - we provide round-the-clock support from our offices in London, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Toronto, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney.

Department overview

Markit MSA is an independent and fully validated Market Share Analysis tool for European Cash Equities.

With the backing of the largest players in the European equities markets, Markit MSA provides a transparent market share service, collecting and aggregating an estimated 60% of all cash equity trading in Europe across traditional exchanges, MTFs and OTC markets.

Markit MSA is the most stringently validated tool for discovering the key players in the European cash equity markets by specialisation. Markit MSA aggregates and ranks all contributing firms based on their daily validated trading activity. This allows clients to view trading activity by volume or value across single stocks, venues, sectors, indices or user-defined portfolios.

Position summary

Markit is seeking a Data Analyst to join the Markit MSA team and lead the data analytics efforts. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing best practice approaches to data validation and trade data quality.

Duties & accountabilities

Main duties will involve extending our trade data verification rules, producing statistical trend analysis and data quality reports, investigating trade data anomalies, on boarding new contributing firms and supporting marketing initiatives by preparing and distributing the product spotlights.

Business competencies

Education and experience

The successful candidate must be able to combine high-level analytical skills with knowledge of the equity market. The ideal candidate would:

Be a university graduate or equivalent, preferably in computing

Have an understanding of the financial markets - past experience in the equity markets is advantageous

Have a high level of proficiency in Excel and Access – VBA experience is desirable

Be familiar with database concepts

Be experienced in writing and reading PL/SQL

Be detail-oriented, thorough, and be able use initiative to solve problems

Personal competencies

Personal impact

Strong analytical and mathematical skills

Display energy, drive and stamina. Open minded, flexible and willing to adapt to changing situations.

Must have a self-starting, driven, assertive and positive attitude

Highly motivated and confident

Communication

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Team player and willing to progress in a rapidly growing/changing environment

Able to adjust to shifting priorities

Able to work independently with minimal supervision

Due to the high volume of applications we receive for each of our roles we are unable to respond on an individual basis. If you have not received a response within 2 weeks of having submitted your details, it is likely that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Please state in your covering letter that you are eligible to work in the location that we are seeking to make this appointment. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer.

We kindly and respectfully request agencies not to submit applications.