Senior Analyst, Strategy Indices

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The Impact: S&P Dow Jones Indices (SPDJI) serves the financial services industry as a leader in providing indices used for investment products and portfolio benchmarking. Our indices underpin leading exchange-traded derivatives, Exchange Traded Funds, structured products, OTC instruments, and play a crucial role in the investment landscape.

The Team: The US Equity Index Product Management team oversees a diverse set of index products, including iconic benchmarks such as the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, in addition to Sector indices, Style indices, and Sustainability indices. As asset class experts, the Product Management team sets strategic priorities to drive revenue growth. This team is integral to the Core Equities product group at S&PDJI, providing client solutions, insights, thought leadership, and driving product strategy and financial health.

The Role: We are seeking a Senior Analyst to support our US 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 US Equity indices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute product development strategy, focusing on investing trends in Europe.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to support new product initiatives and strategic sales efforts.
• Support US 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 competing priorities and resources required to deliver on team objectives and key results using an AGILE framework.
• Provide insights which inform the product roadmap based on market intelligence and client feedback.
• Identify growth opportunities and contribute towards developing a robust pipeline for expansion of existing indices and index launches.
• Collaborate across Product Management team members and wider internal stakeholders to support both product and global initiatives.
• Take direction from senior product management leadership and collaborate closely on projects with other product managers within the US 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 centre to this evolution.
The role provides exposure to multiple products within US Equities as well as European clients such as asset managers and asset owners, structured product desks, and other financial technology and data players. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of an iconic and leading benchmark provider, bringing independent, transparent, innovative index solutions to the global investment community.
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). You will join a high performing team where you will have the opportunity to learn from local and international colleagues.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree required; master’s degree in a relevant field or progress towards a CFA Charter holder status a plus; 3-5 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 are 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 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 but not essential.
• 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.

About S&P Global Dow Jones Indices:

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 www.spglobal.com/spdji.

Inclusive Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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Equal Opportunity Employer: S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.