Associate Director role at S&P Dow Jones Indices focused on leading SPIVA Analytics and Index Investment Strategy. The position involves maintaining and enhancing analytical processes for SPIVA Scorecards, building scalable data pipelines, conducting original research, and collaborating across global teams. Requires 5-8 years of data-driven experience in financial services with strong Python skills, financial dataset expertise, and analytical pipeline development experience.
Associate Director – SPIVA Analytics Lead, Index Investment Strategy
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You will join S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Index Investment Strategy team, a global research group with a strong external market presence and responsibility for high-profile, data-led investment research. The role is focused on the SPIVA® Scorecards and related analytics, which are widely recognised benchmarks for evaluating active versus passive investment performance.
Working with colleagues across London, Hong Kong, and New York, you will support research connected to major benchmarks including the S&P 500®, iBoxx® fixed income indices, VIX®, and other leading index families.
This is a hands-on, quantitatively focused role with ownership of a globally recognised dataset and the analytical workflows that support one of S&P DJI’s flagship research franchises. You will help strengthen the quality, scalability, and usability of the SPIVA platform by improving how data is sourced, validated, analysed, and delivered.
As a Grade 12 Associate Director, you will be expected to operate with autonomy, take accountability for sustainable analytical systems rather than individual outputs, and use your expertise to advise colleagues on complex data, methodology, and research questions.
We require all candidates who reach the final stage of our interview process to attend at least one in-person interview, which is ordinarily at your nearest S&P Global office. This must be completed before we can proceed to an offer.
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