Reference Data Analyst

Reference Data Analyst

Join a dynamic team at JP Morgan focused on delivering innovative market data solutions for internal clients across Asset & Wealth Management.
Drive the management and enhancement of centralized analytics data, supporting business growth and operational excellence.

Job Summary
As an Analyst within the Reference Data Management - MDA Ops Team, you support the delivery of internal client demands across Asset and Wealth Management Lines of Business at JP Morgan. You will help build and manage a centralized repository for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Funds, Corporate, and Instrument analytics data sourced from third-party vendors and internal sources. Your role ensures high-quality data, timely issue resolution, and effective collaboration with stakeholders and vendors.

Job Responsibilities

• Become an SME across all vendor datasets to support analysis and resolve consumer queries
• Develop expertise in ESG, Funds, corporate, and instrument analytic data in MDA
• Define and enhance business rules to identify critical data exceptions and publish alerts
• Support onboarding of new products and consumers to MDA
• Research and route data issues identified by consumers and DQ alerts for resolution
• Analyze and document consumer data usage patterns to escalate critical health checks
• Collaborate with technology and product teams for change and production releases
• Help vendors improve data quality by highlighting recurring patterns, data inconsistencies and potential data health checks or process changes to improve data at source
• Maintain inventory of vendor data incidents, feedbacks and resolution status
• Profile new data sets to identify and document characteristics required to build logical data models, data quality checks and exception alerts aligned to consumer priorities 
• Ensure SOPs are updated and proper controls are in place to reduce risks

Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities

• 2+ years of experience in Financial Services with a background in Data Management, Data Quality, or Business Analysis
• Proficiency in manipulating and analyzing large data sets in Excel (pivots, formulas, charts)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills across virtual teams

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities

• Experience in AWM or CDO/Data Quality/Data Management functions
• Ability to query large databases using SQL for data analysis
• Experience producing PowerPoint presentations for senior audiences
• Exposure to tools and technologies such as UiPath, Alteryx, or Tableau