Data Management Specialist

Job Category: Accounting/Finance/Insurance Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager) Location: Jersey City, NJ 07311 Status: Full Time, Employee Company: Fidelity Reference Code: 0802792 Data Management Specialist Business Overview Operations & Services Group (OSG) provides superior customer service to Fidelity's brokerage businesses through innovation, dedication and commitment to excellence. With seven operating divisions located throughout the country, OSG provides securities execution, clearance, and information management services to retail, institutional, and correspondent clients. OSG performs tens of thousands of over-the-counter, listed equities, options, bonds, and mutual fund transactions daily. Position Description The successful candidate will be responsible for gathering, validating, supporting, and amending pricing/ reference market data as ingested from numerous industry data sources.  In addition, responsibilities will include helping to provide for high quality data, efficient processes and highly transparent and effective support for both internal and external clients.   The associate will work within a rapidly changing and growing Enterprise Data/ Pricing environment held as the cornerstone of OSG’s Operations.  The Pricing department ensures the accuracy of pricing for all securities on the brokerage platform.  Primary internal customers being other business units within OSG and Fidelity’s - Family Office, Institutional Wealth Services, Personal & Workplace Investing, National Financial Services and Capital Markets  businesses.   Primary Responsibilities   Primarily responsible for the gathering and maintenance of data, accurate and timely for primarily complex Alternative Investments.   In addition the specialist will responsible for supporting other product types as well including Equities, Options, Corporate, Government, Municipal bonds and Foreign securities in accordance with firms’ policies and procedures. Daily tasks include inputting prices from third parties, review quality control reports, research securities that are not currently priced, obtain data from various internal and external sources and update systems accordingly. Actively participate in the identification of data quality issues, address root cause and put safeguards in place to mitigate future concerns. Further drive data quality by highlighting areas for process improvement, formulate recommendations to resolve, and work as part of a team to re-engineer current work flows. Gather, track and analyze metrics to measure effectiveness of operational processes. Stay focused to achieve departmental goals. Resolve escalated issues. Manage and prioritize daily workflow. Train junior team members. Become a Subject Matter Expert so as to provide superior client support for both internal and external customers.Education and Experience:  BA/BS college degree in business related field Or, equivalent work experience. 5 + years experience in brokerage processing  ( pricing experience preferred) Experience working with pricing of securities and working with reference market data Skills and Knowledge:  Detail oriented with the ability to quickly organize, prioritize and work within a multiple concurrent task environment. Self motivated individual able to work under tight deadlines in a dynamic environment with competing demands for resources. Strong analytical and problem solving skills.  Ability to breakdown an issue, isolate and resolve the problem(s). Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Proven task management skills adhering to deadlines. Ability to problem solve in a logical manner. Excellent writing, verbal and leadership skills. Superior customer service skills, with ability to handle difficult situations. High level of PC skills including Word, Excel, Access, Power Point. Motivation and willingness to learn new technologies. Working knowledge of Trade Processing, and Settlement Brokerage Operations. Company OverviewFidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services, with custodied assets of more than $3.2 trillion, including managed assets of more than $1.5 trillion as of March 31, 2008. Fidelity offers investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, and human resources and benefits outsourcing services to 24 million individuals and institutions as well as through 5,500 financial intermediary firms. The firm is the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans, the largest mutual fund supermarket and a leading online brokerage firm.