Cubist Data Analyst at Point72

Cubist is seeking a Data Analyst to join its data services group. This role is crucial for ensuring the timely delivery of comprehensive and error-free data to systematic Portfolio Managers. The Data Analyst will be a member of a small team of Data Scientists/Analysts and play a vital role in the smooth implementation of a large research infrastructure, supporting the live production trading.

Responsibilities:

• Identifying potential data sources
• Coordinate with compliance team and legal team on new vendor trial/subscription process
• Assist with collecting and maintaining overviews and vendor content offering
• Assist with data questions and requests from investment teams
• Setting up feed download and monitor check in database
• Monitoring the automated data collection and cleansing infrastructure
• Coordinating meetings and conference calls between data users and experts.
• Assist in organizing presentations
• Handle user requests and answer questions about data
• Download trial datasets from vendor FTP sites or other delivery mechanism
• Assist Data Team with manual data processing as required
• Maintain Cubist Data Wiki contents

Requirements:

• Basic level programming experience in Python and SQL.
• Experience with AWS and Airflow preferred but not required
• Financial industry experience preferred but not required
• Strong organization, communication and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail and a love of process
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to exercise sound judgment in assessing and determining how to handle queries, calls and issues
• Ability to multitask and prioritize assignments