Investment Data / Market EDM Analyst (Reconciliations & Reporting) - Strike IT
Strike IT
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
1 month ago
Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
EnglishJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Microsoft Excel
Big Data
Data Validation
Data Governance
SQL Databases
Enterprise Data Management
Data Management
Static Data
Job description
The requirement is for a hands-on Investment Data / Market EDM Analyst to support Market / Markit EDM (IEDM) activities, with a strong emphasis on:
- Investment data quality
- Reconciliations
- Reporting correctness
- Operational controls
The role sits much closer to Investment Operations, Fund Accounting, Product Control, or Reporting than to IT testing. The successful candidate will work directly with investment, accounting and reporting data , ensuring it reconciles correctly across sources and supports internal and external reporting outputs ., * Perform data validation and reconciliation within Market / Markit EDM (IEDM)
- Investigate and resolve breaks and variances across:
- Positions
- Transactions
- Valuations
- Reference / static data
- Ensure data quality supports investment, regulatory and client reporting
- Work closely with Investment Operations, Finance, Reporting and Accounting teams
- Analyse data issues, determine root cause , and see items through to resolution
- Support UAT-style validation of data outputs (reporting-led, not dev-led)
- Produce clear evidence and analysis to support sign-off and controls
- Contribute to data governance and control processes
- Support change initiatives impacting investment data and reporting platforms
Requirements
- Strong background in Investment Operations, Fund Accounting, Product Control, Reporting or Reconciliations
- Hands-on experience with:
- Investment data
- Accounting / reporting outputs
- Custodian and internal reconciliations
- Experience working with Market / Markit EDM (IEDM) or similar investment data platforms
- Strong understanding of how data feeds internal and external reporting
- Comfortable working with large datasets and high volumes of breaks
- Experience from one or more of:
- Asset Management
- Investment Banking (ops / reporting / control)
- Fund Accounting
- ALM / Credit Risk / Solvency II-style environments
- Strong Excel skills; SQL beneficial but not developer-level
