Senior Market Analyst Job (Av Nacoes Unida, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Description

Responsible for coordination and implementation of a comprehensive new fixed income project effort, including design, testing, application, execution and training on FI content. Serve as a Content Fixed Income representative on the Latin American Fixed Income Content team in a strategic role supporting content of a critical nature to ThomsonReuters' clients. Deliver a robust product offering with solid internal controls in place for quality and service as well as for maintaining ongoing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Thomson Reuters' clients. The position is responsible for communicating requirements from the business to fixed income developers, establishing quality controls and measures, reporting performance measures and monitoring growth of content. The position holds primary responsibility for a day to day MOW in the Americas region, backup coverage for other regions, as required, and coaching and guidance of junior team members. Some travel may be required and early or late shift times can occur to meet business needs and deadlines.

Deliver project's desired outcome through own effort and by collaborating with internal teams--release content on timeline without impact to clients.

· Deliver on project expectations for greatly improved FI content, with special focus on the Brazilian market, using the principles of Discipline, Customer Understanding, Innovation, Scalability as well as a highly motivated and independent organization of efficient workflow.

· Maintain relationships with internal stakeholders during project and establish guidelines and controls to ensure these relationships continue after the project is complete.

· Meet with project team regularly to raise requirements, identify potential synergies, communicate feedback and remove blockers. Meet with Manager to define production steps, define testing plans, prepare a work schedule; training schedule and track and communicate status to manager.

· Provide on-site and/or telephone support (e.g., client inquiries, requests for ad hoc assistance, miscellaneous research, advise on methodologies, scales) and training to end users.

· Research and collect information about providers. Report findings. Work with legal and contractual terms of providers. Collaborate with development teams, other content teams and reporters.

· Clarify scope and design issues, communicate status and results of developers' work.

· Create appropriate deliverable documentation, ensure that training is provided.

· Define problems and recommend appropriate solutions taking into account the project budget, the intended use of the content and tools.

· Operate independently with teams and / or clients from a remote location with a virtual team across international boundaries.

· Escalate any roadblocks or changes to project delivery timeline.

· Some travel may be required.

Early or late shifts may be required to meet business needs, backup coverage and deadlines for projects. Some work on local holidays could be required to meet other markets' coverage needs.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Information Systems, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Finance or related field. Graduate level degree preferred, with special attention to business propositions.

In addition to the above educational requirements, the candidate must be able to demonstrate the following:

· High level of proficiency with MS Office applications.
· Solid PC skills must be demonstratable (Excel, Access, Word, Crystal)
· Organised and rigorous approach to work.
· A good team player.
· Self-starter, always ready to take initiative.
· Proactive attitude to work.
· Understanding of the Fixed Income market
· 3-5 years financial markets industry and/or quantitative work experience, with special preference to work in or with Latin American financial markets content.
- English fluency is required and either Spanish or Portuguese business language proficiency is required\ (fluency preferred).
· Demonstrated ability to convey complex ideas in an easily understood manner to guide audience through written or verbal communications.
· Outstanding project management skills. A solid understanding of FI terms and conditions, real time and other production roles and responsibilities, including previou production coverage of EJV and IDN data.
· Demonstrated experience in applying information systems technology to a customer-focused model in a project and team environment, including use of quality control measures..
· Demonstrated ability to understand industry issues and problems, relate them to clients' needs, and propose appropriate solutions.
· Excellent oral and written communication skills.

· Graduate level degree preferred, with special attention to business.

· Willingness to travel if required

The following is a set of basic underlying skills that are also required for Senior Level Work:

- Familiarity with researching on the Internet an absolute requirement.
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Good problem solving and multi-tasking skills
- Must be well organized
- Ability to work without close supervision
. Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work well within the context of a team
- Ability to meet strict deadlines
- Basic Financial Markets and Accounting knowledge a plus

Desired Skills, necessary industry experience and associated number of years of experience:

Previous experience of working in a vendor environment would be an advantage.
Knowledge of ThomsonReuters products services and financial markets would be an advantage but not essential.
Robust personality, strong in dealing with influence in a virtual work environement.
Excellent facilitation, influencing and interpersonal skills dealing with internal and external groups globally.
Financial Market Indistry certifications.

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 55,000 colleagues in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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Job: Content
Primary Location: Brazil-Sao Paulo-BRA-Sao Paulo-Av Nacoes Unida
Other Locations: Argentina-Buenos Aires-ARG-Buenos Aires-Bartlme Mitre
Organization: M Content Inst & Pricing Cont
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time

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