Data Management: Instruments and Pricing at Prescient

Purpose of role:

• The Data Management team play a critical role relating to the governance and setup of new funds within Prescient Fund Services. In this role you will be required to setup and maintain new funds across the systems used by the asset administration services offered by Prescient.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Managing and maintaining financial market and instrument data across Prescient systems.
• Utilize ETL technologies and workflows to deliver solutions daily, monthly and on an ad hoc basis.
• Operating instrument valuation models for pricing OTC instruments.
• Analysing input and validating outputs of instrument valuation models.
• Analysing and validating the quality of financial market data used by Prescient.
• Executing and enforcing Prescient’s data governance policy for pricing and instrument meta data.
• Meta data maintenance in Prescient’s core accounting system.

Required experience:

• 2-4 years investment or financial services industry experience in a related role where you have gained experience in the setup and/or pricing of instruments.
• Solid understanding of financial instruments.
• Strong Excel skills.

Required Qualifications:

• A relevant tertiary qualification (e.g., Information Systems/Technology, Finance, Accounting / Commerce) is required.

Key competencies:

• Technical aptitude for working with systems and data.
• Ability to methodically plan, organise, analyse, and manage data driven tasks with detail and precision.
• Self-motivated and delivery focused.
• Positive team player.
• Proficient interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Deadline driven.