Product Analyst - Benchmark Coverage

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, news and insight, and we use innovative technology to deliver trusted data and bring transparency to the financial markets. Our customers around the globe rely on us for the information and tools they need to make critical investment decisions and remain connected across all sides of the financial community. To ensure the best experience for our 20,000+ employees across 176 offices globally, we provide the spaces and systems that allow our teams to work together with agility, productivity and collaboration, no matter where they are.
Bloomberg PORT is a leading provider of quantitative portfolio analytics, offering unmatched market coverage and a full suite of tools for risk measurement, performance attribution and scenario analysis. Leveraging Bloomberg's unparalleled breadth and depth of pricing, reference and market data, PORT offers asset managers a powerful set of capabilities for managing investment processes across fixed income, equities, derivatives, and alternatives. In addition, PORT provides best-in-class tools for benchmarking against the Bloomberg Fixed Income Indices.
We are seeking a Product Analyst for our Portfolio Analytics and Risk team to focus on the coverage and quality of the benchmark index data available in Bloomberg's market leading portfolio reporting, risk, and performance attribution solutions. As part of this team you will be responsible for expanding the number of both internal and third party benchmark indices available in PORT as well as ensuring that the content is represented with a high degree of fidelity.
We'll trust you to:

• Work closely with the Product Managers to prioritize Benchmark Coverage inline with the product vision
• Build a close working relationship with the business, index, terminal and sales divisions and incorporate their feedback into the product roadmap
• Interact with end users to understand their needs and to promote our offerings
• Actively engage with engineering, client support, data and product teams to improve production processes and to increase the operational efficiency of the business
• Drive rollout of new coverage by engaging sales, implementations and clients directly
• Analyze customer usage statistics to support formation of product strategy and development of the product roadmap

You'll need to have:

• 3+ years of experience in a Product position within financial services*
• Proven data and quantitative analysis skills
• Familiarity with major benchmark index providers
• Knowledge of the debt and equity market
• Demonstrated effective communication with both internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated knowledge of developing project requirements & scenarios
  We'd love to see:
  

• Technology skills such as scripting or SQL
• Eagerness to work in an evolving, fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Curiosity and desire to expand understanding beyond current expertise and into adjacent areas
• Ability to organize complex projects and understand the dependencies across services to deliver features
• Willingness to continuously detect and analyze the latest buy side industry trends and the competitor landscape
• Ability to engage with different product areas within Bloomberg and ensure roadmap alignment with those areas
• Strong collaboration skills; a self-motivator who demonstrates that they can be a consensus builder

*Please note we use years of experience as a guide, but we certainly will consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary for the role.
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