Senior Associate, Index Partnerships

Our Team

Index Partnerships sits within the Custom Solutions & Alternatives product vertical, a multidisciplinary business unit focused on leveraging all product capabilities within LSEG to serve the investment community on the Buy-side and Sell-side. Comprised of experts ranging from the commercially aligned to the quantitative and technical, the team has four main areas of product focus:

• Index Partnerships – including co-branded offerings such as FTSE EPRA Nareit & FTSE TPI.
• Exchange Listed – sophisticated index solutions, futures & options with key exchange partners.
• Engineered & Structured – such as custom overlays and defined outcomes.
• Alternatives – building our capabilities in Real Assets, Private Equity & Debt.

The Role

The role will have exposure to all 4 product areas listed above, with a focus on the Index Partnerships. The candidate and will engage in a broad range of initiatives, including but not limited to data analysis, product life cycle management and marketing, contributing to a fast-paced and exciting environment with a variety of learning opportunities. This role will also work closely with the other product verticals within FTSE Russell, leveraging all capabilities across Equity, FICC and Sustainable Investment.

What we offer you

• An opportunity to play a key role in our expansion to new capabilities, whilst also deepening relationships and innovating with key strategic partners.
• Working relationships that will expand your network to senior leaders in the industry.
• A position to work and learn alongside a highly skilled and motivated team, with future opportunities to become autonomous and develop your own content.

Your Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Engagement: Regularly connecting with external stakeholders via client and partner meetings and industry events. Facilitating meetings with organisational leadership and preparing supporting analysis & presentations
• Innovation: translating innovation and new capabilities established Index Partnership franchises, injecting growth potential to mature product offerings.
• Strategy: Assess and research the market environment for industry trends and developments in the competitive landscape to inform business strategy and proposal of new index partnerships.
• Product Launch Support: Drafting index ground rules and similar design documentation, including complex solutions.
• Data Analysis & Research: Organise, transform and visualise data for quantitative analysis and research outputs. Running index simulations, working closely with FTSE Russell’s research environment.
• Marketing: promotion of the Partnership offering, creating narratives around our product innovations with the development of supporting documentation.
• Project Management: Coordinating with stakeholders on new product development and go to market planning with a high focus on execution. Scoping project requirements, managing and prioritising project schedules and documentation, ensuring the timely completion of deliverables.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Education: Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Data/Computer Science, Engineering or other quantitative disciplines.
• Analytical & Technical Skills: Comfort with working with large amounts of data, transforming and visualising for presentation to diverse range of stakeholders.
• Communication skills: Ability to deploy professional acumen with senior stakeholders. Excellent people skills to support engagements across the business and to be an outstanding ambassador for Index Partnerships and FTSE Russell.
• Personal Approach: Maintain a curious and ambitious mindset and an appetite to learn, challenge personal standards regularly. 

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