**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 10
**The Role**: Analyst
**The Location**: Mexico City
**The Team**: The global equity index product management team oversees a wide set of index products including our global benchmarks and real estate indices as well as newly evolving indices in the sustainability space. We serve as asset class experts and set the strategic priorities within our product set to drive revenue growth for the business.
**The Impact**: As our geographical reach expands through the global adoption of our international indices, the depth of our family of indices grows, and the interest of investors diversifies, the support role of this position to the product management team is critical to help meet all the internal and external clients' demands.
**What's in it for you**:
This position will provide great potential to learn about global equity markets, including the US, Europe, Asia, Latin America and others.
This position will require a close collaboration with many areas of SP DJI including research & design, operations & development, governance, marketing, and sales.
The role offers great opportunity to learn with a first class index provider the different phases of creating an index from birth to launch and beyond.
This position will provide a close working relationship with colleagues based in New York (global headquarters), Mexico, London, & Singapore, while serving clients of global equities from around the world.
**Responsibilities**:
The role is one of an Investment Analyst based in Mexico to support the product management team overseeing primarily global equity indices. The individual would be responsible for compiling a wide variety of quantitative analysis to support client inquiries and commercial initiatives and to create and update marketing and sales collateral (presentations, reports, etc.). Progress in the role will be exemplified by providing continual value to global equity team members, colleagues, and clients by delivering these requests with efficiency and accuracy and demonstrating an understanding of how to best address commercial opportunities. Some examples of specific responsibilities include:
1. Conduct returns and holdings based analysis of equity indices to support client inquiries and other strategic initiatives. The analysis would require use of tools like Factset or Capital IQ Pro with which familiarity is not required but useful.
2. Create and update presentations and other collateral to support sales and marketing initiatives.
3. Conduct market research and other competitive analysis to support new product initiatives and ongoing strategic sales and marketing efforts.
4. Build familiarity with internal and external systems and tools to gather the necessary data to do the analytical work.
5. Plan, coordinate and implement the required tasks needed to ensure the smooth and timely launch of new indices. Deep involvement in product design working closely with the product manager and the Research & Design team.
6. Visit clients, (in person or virtual) when needed, to present new concepts or existing family of indices.
**What We're Looking For**:
Undergraduate degree or equivalent in finance or a related field is required.
Understanding of the investment process, investment management industry, portfolio theory, and financial markets is required.
Knowledge of indexing, passive investing and understanding of S&P DJI global equity indices is desired.
Programming skills (Python, VBA, others) are preferred.
Knowledge of analytical platforms such as FactSet, Capital IQ, and Morningstar is preferred.
Experience with product development and/or research is preferred.
**Critical experiences**:
Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and MS PowerPoint required.
Excellent problem solving and time management skills.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills as well as keen attention to detail.
Excellent communication skills in Spanish and English - both written and verbal are a must.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, and as part of a team.
Able to learn quickly, multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment.
**Return to Work**:
Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return to Work initiative, Restart, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace.
About S&P Global Dow Jones Indic e s
At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. We're the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500 ® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ®. More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any o