Product Specialist

LSEG, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We deliver intelligent information quickly and efficiently, so professionals have knowledge to act. By joining the LSEG Quantitative Product Specialist team, we will be enabling the discovery of new financial relationships and strategies.

As a Product Specialist at LSEG, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, we thoroughly understand our clients’ and prospective clients’ quantitative requirements from data to workflow needs and can determine, eloquent, construct, and demonstrate the best solution set for the customer and for your set of dedicated accounts. You are a platform and content expert who applies deep technical skills to build complex data calculations and workflows tailored to the customer’s requirements. Your good communication skills enable you to convey the benefits, insights, functionality and usability of our solutions. Your deep product knowledge and analysis skills will lead to your significant contribution to growing our proposition internally and externally.

Job Description:

• 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 correctly using Refinitiv and third-party data from a centralized SQL or Oracle database for their back-testing models
• Solve, research, code scripts, and answer client inquiries on content and database functionality. Work with internal and external parties, including vendors, content specialists, developers and product managers, through to resolution.
• Build and develop long term relationships with existing clients through training, client meetings, implementation support, case management, and timely assistance in their financial research project and model development needs.
• 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.
• Improve the customer experience by advocating for and testing new product features and promoting increased product usage into the client’s workflow.
• Improve the end-to-end customer journey and affect continuous business process improvement through Lean Six Sigma inspired project contributions
• Act as a coach or mentor for the Product Specialist and the new hires.

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience from a top university in Engineering/Computer Science, Finance, or Mathematics
• Knowledge and experience with financial or “big data” databases
• Demonstrate Intermediate Microsoft SQL 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 econometrical packages like Matlab and R and open source high level programming languages like Python.
• 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 attitude with excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to travel ([ 5%)

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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