About the position
LSEG, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, delivers intelligent information quickly and efficiently, enabling professionals to act with knowledge. By joining the LSEG Quantitative Product Specialist team, you will be enabling the discovery of new financial relationships and strategies. The Quant Product Specialist team at LSEG thoroughly understands our clients’ and prospective clients’ quantitative requirements from data to workflow needs. We determine, articulate, construct, and demonstrate the best solution set for our customers! We are platform and content authorities who apply deep technical skills to build sophisticated data calculations and workflows tailored to our customer’s requirements. We use our interpersonal skills to convey the benefits, insights, functionality, and usability of our solutions. Our product knowledge and analytical skills help us meaningfully contribute to growing our proposition internally through partnership with internal groups to fix issues and develop and test new features.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct specialized customer service support to analysts, researchers, and quants at the world's largest and most prominent investment firms, banks, and hedge funds.
- Assist clients in understanding, extracting, and correct usage of LSEG and third-party data from a centralized relational database (SSMS, Oracle, and Snowflake) for their back-testing models.
- Quality check, research, code scripts, and answer client inquiries on content and database functionality, and work with internal and external parties including vendors, content specialists, developers, and product managers through to resolution.
- Build and foster relationships with existing clients through training, client meetings, implementation support, case management, and timely assistance in their financial research project and model development needs.
- Improve the customer experience by advocating for and testing new product features and promoting increased product usage into the client’s workflow.
- Meet with Sales and prospective customers, gather product and integration requirements, demonstrate various aspects of the platform, and assist in the onboarding of new business.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science from a top university in Engineering/Computer Science, Finance, or Mathematics.
- Knowledge of, and experience with, analytical tools and databases.
- Demonstrate knowledge of databases and Microsoft SQL, Oracle, or Snowflake coding experience.
- Experience with equity market and data content with good understanding of general financial markets.
- Experience in quantitative analytics / equity research / equity or credit risk or financial modeling.
- Familiarity with statistics and working knowledge with the econometrical packages like SPSS / Minitab / Stata / SAS / Matlab / R.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate with technical and non-technical personnel via phone, face-to-face, and in writing.
- Ability to give effective presentations and provide ad hoc answers.
- Curious mentality with excellent problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Annual Wellness Allowance
- Paid time-off
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Flex Spending & Health Savings Options
- Prescription Drug plan
- 401(K) Savings Plan and Company match
- Basic life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Emergency backup dependent care
- Adoption assistance
- Commuter assistance
