Senior Associate / Vice President Fixed Income Index Management

#### **Company Description** Solactive AG is a FinTech company operating globally and growing at a fast pace, headquartered in Frankfurt. Since 2007, we develop tailor-made and multi-asset class index solutions for ETFs and other index-linked investment products for the leading global investment banks and asset managers as our clients. Flexibility, efficiency and providing the highest quality are at the heart and soul of our business philosophy. We are now hiring! #### **Job Overview** Are you excited about capital markets and fixed income investments? Would you like to turn that interest into running the indices that our clients around the world use as benchmarks to build products on? As a Senior Associate / Vice President in our Fixed Income Index Management team, you will take a senior role ensuring our daily index operations run in a stable manner and help us bringing our current activities at the next level of scalability. Additionally, you will act as a go-to contact for clients and internal stakeholders and help shape how the team works. We are looking for someone who takes the initiative, has a lot of energy and is confident questioning the status quo. You should be just as comfortable taking full ownership of critical daily processes. This is a role at the intersection of investment strategy, client management and technical evolution. #### **Your Tasks** **Daily index operations** * Own the daily production and maintenance of fixed income indices, including bond creation and maintenance, corporate actions and bond event processing, ensuring accurate, complete and timely index outputs. * Monitor daily controls and fix production issues quickly, escalating where appropriate. **Index rebalances** * Manage periodic index rebalances from start to finish. * Make sure index strategies remain true to their scope and evolve them in line with developments in the market and client needs. **Client and stakeholder interaction** * Act as a key contact for clients, licensees and partners on index questions, rebalance results and methodology. * Work with Product, Sales, Data and IT teams to support client requests, or custom index projects. * Run methodology reviews, consultations and control the governance processes. **Process ownership and improvement** * Question existing workflows and find chances to make them more efficient, automated and robust. * Drive improvements to operational procedures, controls and documentation. * Share knowledge across the team and support junior colleagues. #### **Your Profile** * Academic degree in mathematics, finance, economics, computer science, engineering, or a related quantitative field. * 5+ years of relevant experience in capital markets or financial services, with solid exposure to fixed income. This could be in asset management, portfolio management or operations, trading, fixed income research, risk, or banking. * Strong hands-on experience using Python to build production-ready code t