Jobs at IHS Markit -(7 Positions)

Duties and Responsibilities – “Your Role”

The Operations Analyst role is a key function to the successful organisation and efficient management of the advisory group to ensure a smooth delivery process of market deliverables which will be measured in the quality and increased business revenue. The attached responsibilities will include supporting key strategic and operational decisions on various research and data initiatives that will require regular thorough audit into existing systems for improvement recommendations.

The successful candidate will track completion of business tasks while at the same time monitor bottlenecks throughout the year as a primary responsibility and make recommendations to guide members towards an optimal model. With the team geographically spread in APAC, EMEA and North America, there will be a requirement to connect with multiple servicing centres during different time zones.

The intensive nature of the role will require a highly organised approach and a strong logical reasoning skillset to meet operational challenges. Individuals with data analytics experience or relevant skillsets will be preferred.

What we look for:

• Experience in primary and secondary data research methods
• Identifying advanced non-financial datasets that have a link to governance profiles of companies
• Manage and lead data maintenance projects and performance tracking systems
• Proficiency in time management and prioritization skills for tasks depending on requirements
• Curious by nature and interested in making an impact
• Strong interpersonal skills to connect with a global team
• Ability to make a sound business case and convince people to help you execute
• Self-motivating and innovative thinking to enable the team to succeed

Job Requirements – “About You”

Desired Requirements:

• University degree required. Advanced degree and/or CFA designation preferred
• Advanced level in Microsoft Office, Excel, Powerpoint, Planner, Access, Citrix
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
• Strong analytical and interpretation skills
• Responsive to the needs of our global research team, responding to requests within a reasonable time frame.
• Prefer familiarity with FactSet, Bloomberg, Reuters, etc.
• Previous experience with Jira Core will be beneficial

Job Benefits – “What we offer”

• Cash incentive plan
• Options to work from home
• Flexible working hours to allow you to attend your family
• Opportunity to work with world experts in the field

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Duties and Responsibilities – “Your Role”

If you are an analytical thinker with ideas and insight to help EMEA issuers engage with global institutional investors, this job is for you.

We are looking for an Associate, within the EMEA Corporate Advisory Team to:

• Provide clients with actionable insight into activities of global institutional investors
• Develop and maintain advisory relationships with the investor relations and executive teams of clients
• Work together with researchers and analysts globally to identify shareholders of the client
• Use analytical databases and proprietary information to support clients target and engage with institutional investors
• Deliver regular and ad hoc reports to clients on institutional investor activities in the market as well as market impacting topics
• Participate in the growth and improvement of the team’s service offering to clients

Job Requirements – “About You”

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience
• Strong communication skills
• Knowledge of the equity markets, investor relations experience desirable
• Strong team player who thrives under pressure and is comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.
• Strong Excel skills or data analytical tools such as Alteryx or Power BI
• Analytical and have strong problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, takes initiative and enjoys new challenges
• Comfortable in working in a dynamic and global environment with colleagues from diverse backgrounds
• You will be assigned key clients that you will be responsible for and will be able to build strong relationships with IR executives at top European firms
• IHS Markit's proprietary data will be available to conduct analysis and to build new insight into what is going on in the market. You will have opportunity to publish analytical pieces and give presentations, to build a reputation in the industry
• Training sessions are available giving your insight into the newest global IR industry topics, developments in ESG, to IHS Markit's economists views on the world economy

Job Benefits – “What we offer”

• Cash incentive plan
• Options to work from home
• Flexible working hours to allow you to attend your family
• Opportunity to work with world experts in the field
• Strong client base and broad product line

Location: Cape Town - ABSA on Grove

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Duties and Responsibilities – “Your Role”

If you are an analytical thinker with ideas and insight to help EMEA issuers engage with global institutional investors, this job is for you.

We are looking for an Associate, within the EMEA Corporate Advisory Team to:

• Provide clients with actionable insight into activities of global institutional investors
• Develop and maintain advisory relationships with the investor relations and executive teams of clients
• Work together with researchers and analysts globally to identify shareholders of the client
• Use analytical databases and proprietary information to support clients target and engage with institutional investors
• Deliver regular and ad hoc reports to clients on institutional investor activities in the market as well as market impacting topics
• Participate in the growth and improvement of the team’s service offering to clients

Job Requirements – “About You”

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience
• Strong communication skills
• Knowledge of the equity markets, investor relations experience desirable
• Strong team player who thrives under pressure and is comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.
• Strong Excel skills or data analytical tools such as Alteryx or Power BI
• Analytical and have strong problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, takes initiative and enjoys new challenges
• Comfortable in working in a dynamic and global environment with colleagues from diverse backgrounds
• You will be assigned key clients that you will be responsible for and will be able to build strong relationships with IR executives at top European firms
• IHS Markit's proprietary data will be available to conduct analysis and to build new insight into what is going on in the market. You will have opportunity to publish analytical pieces and give presentations, to build a reputation in the industry
• Training sessions are available giving your insight into the newest global IR industry topics, developments in ESG, to IHS Markit's economists views on the world economy

Job Benefits – “What we offer”

• Cash incentive plan
• Options to work from home
• Flexible working hours to allow you to attend your family
• Opportunity to work with world experts in the field
• Strong client base and broad product line

Location: Centurion - Heuwel Ave

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Duties and Responsibilities – “Your Role”

Assisting researchers, data scientists, and developers with a wide variety of tasks to advance the data analytics function in producing actionable insights for researchers, consultants, and clients

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintain existing data science platform
• Building data process support tools for existing products
• Maintenance of all associated datasets and pipelines on diverse platforms including the AWS cloud environment

Development

• Build data pipelines for new modeling tools to support internal research, consulting activity, and new or existing products
• Extract, clean, and automate data extraction and pre-processing

Data delivery

• Build data delivery mechanisms to provide data to non-technical analytics staff
• Create data flow for client facing products through APIs and dashboards

Job Requirements – “About You”

• You are an analytical thinker who is comfortable working on a variety of topical areas.  You are comfortable learning new techniques, analytical methods, and technology.  You enjoy working across cultural groups with respect to both colleagues and clients.

Key Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Advanced knowledge of Python 3 (Pyspark, numpy, pandas, ODBC, matplotlib, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of SQL
• Some data visualization experience with PowerBI
• Ability to transform messy data into usable, stable, automated data flows

Job Benefits – “What we offer”

• Options to work from home
• Development plan to identify your career aspirations and goals
• Flexible working hours depending on workload
• Training via IHS Markit Academy on a range of topics
• Opportunity to work with world experts in agricultural, agribusiness and all adjacent IHS Markit sector
• Strong client base and broad product lines

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Duties and Responsibilities – “Your Role”

You will be a key member of the IHS Markit Content team. Reporting into the local Content management team, you will be part of our data base maintenance team, that ensures the information we are making public to our clients, is the most up to date and accurate version we have access to.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• 50% of your time will be spent on the phone, trying to source or validate information
• Web researching and analysing information
• Capturing this data into our internal app
• Coming up with innovative solutions in order to keep our processes as efficient as they can be

Job Requirements – “About You”

• You are detail orientated person, that can make fast decisions based on what you gather through your research process.

Key Qualifications and Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written command of the English and French language
• As this is a calling team, you must be able to ask probing questions on calls in order to get as much detailed information as possible and should not be easily deterred.
• Ability to establish and maintain relationships
• Must be very detail-oriented and able to capture this information into our internal application using IHS Markit research and style guidelines
• Good online research skills and the ability to analyse existing sources of information as well as find new ones. Comfortable navigating official registries and experience with data entry is advantageous.
• Must be able to work well under pressure and be flexible to adapt to changes in a fast-paced working environment
• Knowledge of the buy-side, sell-side or capital markets is a plus but not required

Technical Requirements:

• Experience with Microsoft Office suit
• Moderate/Intermediate Excel skills is a plus
• Basic knowledge of Agile and experience with Jira will be an advantage
• You will be required to work from home from time to time, so a minimum Fibre line of 10mbps is a must in order to fully support all our systems

Job Benefits – “What we offer”

• Options to work from home occasionally
• Flexible working hours

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Your Role

You will be part of our buy-side outreach team. This team is responsible for collecting and distributing fund level disclosure details from investors and portfolio managers worldwide. These disclosures are a crucial source of shareholding information presented to our clients in our shareholder identification reports. The Shareholder Identification (SID) group is the separate group responsible for the reporting and identification of institutional shareholders of major stock listed companies.

Your duties will include the following:

• Establishing and managing relationships with buy-side contacts (both telephonically and/or electronically)
• Obtaining fund level data
• Distribution of data
• Cold-calling
• Any other administrative or filling support required by the outreach team

This position is multi-faceted and requires verbal communications skills, oral and written proficiency in English and French, research skills and a basic knowledge of financial markets.

About You

• Successful researchers at IHS Markit are detail-oriented, exhaustive researchers and self-starters.

Key Qualifications and Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written command of the English and French language (additional languages advantageous)
• Degree in the related business field or equivalent related work experience
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to establish and maintain relationships
• Must be able to work well under pressure and be flexible to adapt to changes in a fast-paced working environment
• Knowledge of the buy-side, sell-side or capital markets is a plus but not required
• Any administrative experience will be considered as a significant advantage
• Familiarity or interest in the financial market will also be advantageous
• Self-motivated, takes initiative and enjoys new challenges
• Analytical and have strong problem-solving skills

What we offer

• Options to work from home occasionally
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work with world experts in the field
• Strong client base and broad product line

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Your Role

• Research and author highly presentable and in-depth reports, whitepapers on automotive technologies, benchmarking, supply chain dynamics, as well as automaker and supply chain strategies.
• Data researching and processing, including graph and graphic creation.
• Organize and deliver podcasts and webinars as a thought leader on automotive technology.
• Attend client-facing meetings to relay information on written assets and industry innovations.
• Contribute and help organize motor show and other team-wide written assets.
• Attend external webinars, events, and investor calls to build strong connections with senior executives at external automotive companies.

About You

• Journalistic-level English writing, editing, and presentation skills including interviewing.
• 5-8 years-plus of relevant automotive industry knowledge, ideally B2B automotive
• Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven teamwork skills, ability to work independently and manage a strong network with senior executives internally and externally.
• Strong time management skills, ability to deliver projects within deadlines, prioritize assignments and manage multiple projects.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and basic HTML/website content management.

What we offer

• Remote work
• Opportunity to work with world experts in the field
• Participation in conferences and training
• Attractive benefits package (private health care, life insurance)
• Three days for charity/volunteering
• Remote recruitment and onboarding process