Fixed Income Evaluator - BVAL Pricing

Bloomberg’s Fixed Income Pricing group provides gold standard pricing services to the financial markets. Our solutions include products like BVAL, IBVAL Front Office, CBBT and BGN. We price over 2.9 million securities across all fixed income asset classes, including thinly traded and hard-to-price fixed income securities. Our customers rely on us to understand markets and analyze complex structures which allow them to make thoughtful investment decisions, which ultimately creates more value for the investor. Our mission is to drive greater transparency, liquidity and safety in global fixed income markets.

To produce this pricing data, we absorb billions of data points from hundreds of financial markets every day. We pipe this data through pricing algorithms which employ quantitative and machine learning techniques. This process produces the high-quality pricing that the market and our customers need. We also develop applications that provide intelligent analytics and transparency for these prices.

The Role:

Bloomberg's Evaluated Pricing (BVAL) business is a market leader in fixed income pricing and the pricing provider to the Bloomberg Indices. BVAL prices multiple times daily for clients across buy side, sell side and custodial clients. Mutual funds, money managers, hedge funds, internal pricing groups, and auditors rely on BVAL to establish fair and independent fixed income asset valuations. We are known for:

• Transparent methodologies that aid clients in the full investment lifecycle
• Pricing data provided how and when clients want it
• Legendary customer support

BVAL Fixed Income Evaluators are capital markets experts responsible for employing relevant, innovative, and leading-edge valuation models that leverage Bloomberg’s in-house analytics to provide high-quality data for the front office, middle office, and operations. The current team consists of a high performing group of professionals with extensive and varied experiences, including former traders, portfolio managers, and research analysts.

We’ll Trust You to:

• Design and support valuation models and systems to provide clients with evaluated prices for Fixed Income securities
• Work closely with other BVAL team members, Business Development, and Engineering to develop innovative models and enhance our products offering
• Assist clients who use BVAL prices for NAV, P&L and/or risk analytic purposes 
• Discuss markets, complex valuation models, and pricing questions with colleagues and clients
• Collaborate with multiple groups across reporting lines and support downstream product including sales and business to identify and implement workflow improvements and operational efficiencies
• Use innovative valuation models leveraging Bloomberg’s in-house analytics along with credit, market drivers and bond structure to provide accurate pricing for clients.
• Partner with engineering and business teams to create and prioritize user stories, specifications, and acceptance criteria

You’ll Need to Have:

• 3+ years experience in related Fixed income or Evaluator position
• Demonstrate ability to utilize tooling related to ingesting and normalizing data
• Experience related to programming and scripting in a production environment using Python
• Bachelor's degree in finance, computer science, or similar
• Excellent Excel skills, including the ability to create financial models, perform statistical analysis and work with large data sets to help design and support BVAL’s valuation models
• An understanding of the fixed income market, market drivers, bond structures, fixed income analytics and pricing approaches
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and partnership skills
• Experience translating complex pricing concepts into clear and concise explanations
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to analyze and interpret data and metrics and make data-driven decisions

We’d Love to See:

• Experience trading, investing or analyzing/valuing of Municipal Securities
• Knowledge of the Bloomberg Terminal

Does this sound like you?

Apply if you think we're a good match and we'll get in touch with you to let you know next steps. In the meantime, check out http://www.bloomberg.com/professional. Enterprise Data page: https://data.bloomberg.com/

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