Lead Data Steward

The Role: Lead Data Steward

Grade: 10 (Relevant for internal employees only)

The Location: Islamabad, Pakistan

The Team: The Private Ownership Data Management team delivers research, content, and analytics about private capital markets, including private equity and venture capital firms, their investments, and funds. Our data is used to support deal sourcing, fundraising, data exploration and valuation analysis by investment bankers and private equity professionals. We are providing expertise in private equity data, assisting with client requests, and helping Product and Commercial teams with their engagements with current and prospective customers. Key part of our role is to support development of the new solutions for private capital markets across various data delivery channels (feeds, platforms, etc.), covering both self-sourced data and the data we received from third parties/ vendors.

The Impact:

This is a senior role in the team: it is highly collaborative and focuses on bringing together various stakeholders to form and successfully execute business strategies through customer-centric projects. The successful candidate will work within the context of a cross-functional team aligned between Data Management, Operations Managers, Product and its support functions and Agile development teams.

The role requires excellent project management, data analytics, critical thinking, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

What’s in it for you: Private Capital Markets data is in high demand, and our clients value our data driven approach. This is a great opportunity to further develop your data management, critical thinking and technical skills, stakeholder management skills and business acumen. This role offers an exposure to work with multiple teams from Content, Product and Tech groups on different Private Ownership data projects and exceptional growth opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the end-to-end delivery of the Private Ownership data projects (requirements gathering and consultation, groundwork & analysis, sizing, collaboration with Technology and Product teams on implementation)
• Development of business logics to integrate and transform various Private Capital Markets data facets from multiple sources into internal data structures
• Work with AGILE Technology teams to complete the design of various dataset specific and relationship centric projects and processes/tools while partnering with other Content teams on the shared structures
• Collaboration with Product Teams on identifying key client requirements and converting them into projects for successful implementation
• Converting raw complex data into easy-to-understand information through data visualization
• Analyze and uncover inconsistencies in large amount of data supplied by third-party providers by utilizing SQL knowledge and propose solutions to address them in S&P Global products
• Support client requests across all the areas of the dataset

What We’re Looking For:

Essential Qualifications:

• Self - starter with innovative and effective problem-solving skills
• Proven track record of successful delivery of complex projects, particularly in content-related domain
• 7+ years of work experience including data management in a financial market data intensive environment
• Sound knowledge about backend infrastructure (tables/pipelines/loaders, etc.)
• Good understanding of S&P Products such as Capital IQ Pro, Capital IQ, Excel Plug-In, feeds, etc.
• Hands on experience in writing and developing SQL Queries (joins, exist/not-exist, group by, having, cast, etc.)
• Experience in Data Mining, Analysis and Visualization
• Ability to work collaboratively across segments and cultures
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Excellent time management skills, ability to meet strict deadlines
• Strong communication skills
• Willing to work evening shifts and flexible hours

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Private Equity Dataset
• Project Management/ AGILE Certification
• Knowledge of BECRS and CompanyRel product offerings.
• Basic understanding of Python
• Working knowledge of Visualization Tools (Tableau, Power BI etc.)

S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.

 S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy. 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race/ethnicity, gender, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status (including domestic partnerships and civil unions), sexual orientation, military veteran status, unemployment status, or other legally protected categories, subject to applicable law.

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