EDM Associate Implementation Consultant Market Intelligence

EDM Senior Implementation Consultant Financial Services

The Team: S&P Global harnesses deep sources of information analytics and expertise to forge solutions for the industries and markets that drive global economies. Our company partners with clients in business finance and government to provide the unrivalled insights and perspectives that lead to well‑informed confident decisions. Serving more than 50000 key customers in more than 140 countries including 80 percent of the Fortune Global 500.

We help decision makers apply higher‑level thinking to daily tasks and strategic issues across a host of industries and disciplines including energy finance, automotive engineering, technology, maritime and trade, aerospace and defence, chemical, economics and country risk.

The S&P Markit Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform puts quality audited data at the centre of customers’ organisations. Its solutions build gold copy masters across all data types delivering tangible data governance, risk management and compliance frameworks and rationalising legacy architectures. The EDM platform is the central hub for all transactions, securities, prices, rates, counter party and issuer data. Markit EDM empowers those who understand the data to manage the data no matter the complexity, volume or scope of the project.

• The Senior Consultant role is a vital role in the delivery of successful EDM Implementation projects.
• High quality implementations at the first time of asking delivers high level of Customer satisfaction and the best commercial value for S&P Global.

• Exposure to a wide array of the worlds leading financial organisations.
• As well as working with the current EDM solution this role brings an opportunity to engage with multiple clients, vendors and streams of EDM.

The role is wide and varied and requires a high level of skill and experience in EDM to support the following activities:

• Partners with the Managing Consultant to review requirements, establish estimates, work breakdown plans and identify and manage issues/risks.
• Participate and where appropriate lead EDM Solution Design activities.
• Configure the products per specification providing including building the interfaces, validations, rules, mappings, workflows and permissions.
• Document analyses and map the different data feeds that populate/retrieve data to/from the EDM product suite.
• Validate the setup of the infrastructure and installation of software at client site or in a hosted environment.
• Work closely with various stakeholders including End Users, Development, Quality Assurance, Business Analysts, Programme Managers and other Business Leaders to deliver successful implementation projects.
• Participate in the testing process for new product versions and client testing cycles (unit, integration, UAT, parallel, etc.) during implementation to ensure deliverables are aligned with requirements and performant.
• Support the release management process and job automation procedures.
• Train/mentor/coaches less experienced EDM consultants.
• Support and contribute to EDM best practices from project and product experience gained.
• Interact with clients and keep appropriate management abreast of project issues.
• Ability and willingness to travel.

• Proven track record of EDM delivery gained across buy‑side and sell‑side environments.
• Candidates should be university degree level educated or equivalent and have a proven track record of software implementation experience gained ideally in global financial markets.
• Strong Business knowledge of financial markets.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Practical experience of delivering Agile based projects.
• Practical experience of integration projects and Upstream Data Management.
• Strong technical experience with database practices and querying language particularly in SQL Server.
• A natural consultative style is essential to build client relationships and meet the evolving demands of a wide and diverse client base.
• Strong communication skills required to present to various levels from Senior Managers to developers discussing strategic objectives and delivering solutions across a…