Senior Associate, Operations and Change Reporting

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace.

Our London-based team is seeking a Senior Associate to own data reporting and presentation for our Operations team. This individual will be responsible for identifying and driving operational efficiency gains, supporting strategic and regulatory projects through specialist knowledge, and delivering Target Operating Model (TOM) designs, enhancement and implementation. This role combines skills in written communication and presentation with technical data analysis to develop and deliver critical and automated reporting needs across the EMEA & APAC Operations team that will help drive efficiency, identify potential operational improvements, and support management decision-making.

This role also includes a high level of project management to successfully deliver complex projects with Operations and/or Regulatory impact. This will be coupled with strong leadership, communication and influencing skills in order to directly liaise with senior management and a broad range of stakeholders and business partners across the firm.

How You’ll Help Take Us There

• Support delivery of the Operations Automation and Transformation Programme and Regulatory-driven change initiatives, helping to ensure that all impacts have been factored into the plan and any areas of concern / exposure are escalated through the Head of Operations Change Management and appropriate management forums.
• Use a variety of data sources to collate, prepare and format operational statistics and KPIs into clear and engaging reports suitable for a range of senior and front-line stakeholders.
• Create and maintain high-quality management presentations and updates on key projects and initiatives.
• Create and maintain operational knowledgebases such as wikis, internal websites and process documentation.
• Set-up and maintain tools and platforms to automate the creation of reports and dashboards where possible.
• Support the technical implementation of strategic automation of daily data processing and manual operational processes, including migration from legacy end-user tools such as Excel.
• Work closely with a range of Operations and Technology stakeholders to gather requirements and implement quality presentations, accurate reports and reliable, strategic reporting solutions.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years in the Financial Services industry; experience from a regulatory reporting, operations or controls environment a plus.
• Extensive experience creating/collating executive presentations and sharing updates on their progress.
• Extensive experience in creating detailed and summarised reports of operational data, including graphs and visualisations to highlight trends and outliers.
• Advanced skills using Tableau to create/configure reports.
• Advanced SQL/database skills in Oracle, Python and SQL Server RDMS systems.
• Experience with AWS data tools and querying.
• Exposure to automation tools and platforms a plus.
• Set-up of internal wiki pages (e.g. Confluence), preferred.
• Experience within Change Management, beneficial.
• Strong spoken and written communications, tailored to a wide range of audiences.
• Excellent analytical skills and critical thinking abilities.
• Self-motivated and focused on delivery.
• Highly organised and able to thrive in a dynamic environment.
• Team player who enjoys collaborating with others.
• Multitasking and priority management essential with ability to manage demanding stakeholders.

What You Can Expect from Us

• Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul’s.
• Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines.
• Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days.
• Reward for your service: We offer a two-week bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service.
• Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing, reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a “Share Incentive” plan.
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences.

Collaboration and innovation are integral to our success – it’s how we got to where we are and how we’ll maintain and grow our competitive advantage. We believe this best happens in an office environment.