Systems Associate

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary business analyst and subject matter expert for Bloomberg and key trading platforms
• Help define and maintain standards and best practices for how trading platforms are used across the desk.
• Partner with Trading leadership to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities to enhance platform usage.
• Own the full lifecycle of platform usage for Trading, including onboarding, enhancements, access changes, and decommissioning.
• Serve as a key escalation point, coordinating resolution of complex platform issues.
• Support traders with Bloomberg functionality across asset classes.
• Handle day‑to‑day Bloomberg requests, questions, and troubleshooting from Trading and related teams
• Act as the main point of contact with Bloomberg representatives and support teams.
• Continuously evaluate Bloomberg and other trading platforms to ensure alignment with evolving trading strategies and market structure.
• Partner with vendors to assess new features, enhancements, and tools relevant to the Trading desk.
• Monitor and assess platform effectiveness through trader feedback, usage patterns, and operational outcomes.

• Minimum 5+ years hands‑on Bloomberg Terminal experience supporting a trading desk or front‑office environment (ETF, asset manager, hedge fund, or SMA platform)
• Strong understanding of trading workflows and market data usage (e.g. pricing, RFQ, FX, execution tools)
• Proven experience onboarding users, managing entitlements, and enabling real‑time pricing on Bloomberg
• Working knowledge of Bloomberg data access methods (Terminal functions, exports, APIs) to support ad‑hoc trading needs
• Strong project management skills, comfortable supporting and driving Bloomberg‑related initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
• Meticulous attention to detail, strong documentation habits, and effective cross‑team communication skills.