Role: Fixed Income Data/Business Analyst

Type: Contract

Contract Duration: Long term

Contract Location: Newark, New Jersey

Job description:

Your Required Skills:

• 5 years of Business Analysis at a buy-side Fixed Income firm
• Experience in various Fixed Income instruments is required (e.g. U.S. Treasuries, Investment Grade, High Yield, EMD, Mortgages, Sovereign Debt / Government Bonds, Corporate Bonds, OTCD, and Repos)
• Working knowledge of data governance and ability to ensure high data quality is maintained throughout the data lifecycle of a project
• Proficient in writing SQL queries and understand stored procedures
• Innate ability to assess current process and suggest change-driven solutions to enhance business outcomes
• Proficiency in technical tools and techniques for data analysis, documentation, and system analysis (e.g., SQL, data modeling, system architecture).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to conduct root cause analysis on system, process or production problems and ability to provide viable solutions
• Experience working with large data sets
• Knowledge of business analysis best practices and industry standards.
• Basic knowledge of python
• Advance knowledge of Excel
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools (Jira, Confluence)

Your Desired Skills:

• Bachelor s degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science or a related field.
• Python experience a plus
• Experience with Business Intelligence Reporting tools and understand relational database models.