Job Purpose: 

  • To complement our team of index design experts and to further expand our business, we are looking for a driven individual with relevant business experience and leadership capabilities
  • The primary focus of this role will be 1 / related to the legal, finance and administration side of the Index Business and 2 / to further develop of our index services and third party calculation businesses.

Your Responsibilities:

  • The focus of the position will be related to the legal, finance and administration side of the Index Business
  • To handle the complete process of one-off standard index licence agreements
  • Be the liaison between the client and Euronext Legal department and handle the complete review and signing process concerning more complicated index agreements (including index provider agreements)
  • Provide input / check on the commercial parts of the index agreements
  • To create and maintain a contract database, allowing the contracts and its content to be found and selected easily based on several topics
  • Collection of product issuing / AUM information from clients and the processing of the information received
  • The creation of the monthly index invoice file for the finance department
  • Setting up of a registration for service provider revenue sharing and finance retrocession
  • Assist the finance department in case of late payment of index invoices
  • Build an improved registration system for the information request agenda
  • Build and maintain an outstanding contract tracking system
  • The collection of the monthly statistics on ETPs and ETFs
  • Guide the internal process with regards to new index providers setup in finance administration and internal approval
  • Writing short texts on indices, for example BBG text on new indices
  • Updating and maintaining several files following new indices launched
  • The candidate will also be responsible for index design work, including data mining and analysis, customer consultancy, modelling and back testing, rules building, drafting of marketing material and operational hand-off.

Skills and Qualifications:  

  • The successful candidate has some affinity with (Commercial) legal and experience with indices and / or portfolio construction, either gained in financial product development or trading
  • He or she is familiar with a broad range of security types (i.e. equities, fixed income, options and futures etc) and ETFs / ETVs in particular
  • The candidate combines quantitative skills and working knowledge of market data sources (Bloomberg, Reuters, Factset) with an ability to quickly absorb operational system knowledge, in order to translate customer needs into viable and commercially sound propositions
  • The role involves doing desk research, sourcing of customer intelligence and delivery of index design consultancy for internal and external partners
  • The candidate is a self-starter and yet a team player who has the ability to communicate effectively.

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