Market Data Vendor Analyst

Job Description:

NOTE: Fidelity will not offer sponsorship support for this position.

The Role

As a Market Data Vendor Analyst, you will play a key role in efficiently maintaining and leading all aspects of market data expenses and provide oversight for market data and research vendors. This role provides high-level administration of market data inventory, reconcile, and process vendor invoices; investigate and resolve discrepancies, daily processing of user and service requests, and ad hoc reporting requests. While the area of focus is on inventory management you will also build positive relationships with internal business partners across Fidelity, work with your peers, in corporate accounts payable, finance, and participate in internal and external audit reviews, and various cross team initiatives.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• 3 - 5 years market data industry experience and/or financial services experience is a plus
• Understand the concept of accrual methodologies and accounting principles
• Experience balancing general ledgers and cost center expenses
• Prepare and communicate purchase orders funding requests and vendor set-up forms
• Exceptional accuracy and attention to detail; with the ability to understand and meet quality control standards, detect errors, and take corrective action
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to communicate with confidence, share ideas, manage multiple responsibilities and able to prioritize tasks
• Innovative and creative approach to understanding and implementing complex concepts and data
• Ability to effectively respond to dynamically changing work environments
• Database Management experience using Workday, inventory databases or data tracking systems where expenses, users or services are stored (ex. invoice payment/expense tracking systems)
• Advance excel experience with exporting data, use of pivot tables and formulas (v-lookups, h-lookups, pivots, embedding functions). Tactical use of excel for data reconciliations.
• Critical thinking skills that allow for problem solving, managing vendors independently, and analyzing data to draw meaningful conclusions (analytical skills)

The Team

Research & Market Data Administration team sits within the FFIO unit of Asset Management and provides high-quality, oversight of enterprise market data across Fidelity. The team’s primary goal is to ensure the market data inventory management database is accurate, that invoices, and service access requests are processed in good order, and that financial data is accurately maintained and distributed to all business partners.

Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

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Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.