• 6 August 2008
• Reference: JR202569

• Research Assistant, Securities Team - London

• City of London Competitive Permanent
• Benefits: Competitive

A research assistant is required for the securities team of a prestigious London-based financial services provider.


The financial statistics division collects financial data from banks and building societies operating in the United Kingdom. The group is looking for an enthusiastic research assistant to work in the securities team. The rates and securities team consists of five people and produces statistics and briefing on interest rates and capital issuance.


The jobholder's main responsibility is to compile the capital issuance data and produce the capital issuance monthly statistical release. This involves liaising with a panel of data suppliers to ensure that the information supplied is accurate, running systems on a bespoke database to aggregate the individual data submissions and checking the final aggregate statistics.


The jobholder has a high level of responsibility for published outputs so needs to be able to produce accurate statistics to tight deadlines. They also need the ability to prioritise different tasks and drive work forward.


Candidates need to be able to build up good relationships with our reporters. Strong IT skills, especially excel, are needed as well as the ability to learn to use in-house databases.

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