The individual will perform tasks associated with the design of indices:

- Source, cleaning and organising time-series

- Source, cleaning and structuring securities’s static data

- Understand, specify and prototype local market conventions

- Develop spreadsheets to prototype and manually calculate new indices

- Draft index rules

- Perform back-testing of indices

- Test administration and production environments

- Quality control of daily index production

For training purposes, and to ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of the index business, the individual will likely to rotate occasionally to do index administration.

A high degree of detail orientation is required.

There will also be requirements to include equity indices as part of multi-asset class indices, some of which will include a dynamic allocation strategy. In these cases, the individual will be expected to work closely with other index teams in Markit.

The individual needs to be, in order of importance

- Energetic

- Financially and mathetically literate

- A team player

Experience required:

- Basic quantitative studies, such as math, engineering, finance or a natural science preferred. No advanced degree required.

- Basic programming skills, such as VBA and basic SQL a plus.

- No management experience required, the individual is expected to be a strong team player, with proven track-record of working with people that are not functionally aligned to them, inside and outside of work.

- Medium requirement. We need someone who is detail oriented enough to build high quality, superior products.

- Pleasant personality, other people will need to want to work with him/her as the individual will not have direct reports. Looking for someone that is enthusiastic, energetic, detail oriented, team player.

- Good communication skills with clients and team members is a must.