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About CoinDesk Indices
CoinDesk Indices are the industry standard for institutional single- and multi-asset benchmarks for crypto assets. The flagship CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (XBX) has been in operation continuously since 2014. Financial institutions rely on the XBX and other CoinDesk Indices products to benchmark billions of dollars in assets under management and to price hundreds of millions in over-the-counter transactions, daily.
CoinDesk Indices is seeking a Data Analyst to gather, cleanse, analyze and validate market data related to digital assets. These data will be critical inputs to the development, management and rebalancing of the world’s leading cryptocurrency index offering of industry benchmarks and market indices for index-linked products. This role will also research digital assets to determine and assign the appropriate classification for the Digital Asset Classification Standard.
Key Responsibilities:
- Acquire, cleanse, and standardize market data for digital assets.
- Develop business rules and processes to ensure the quality and timeliness of market data.
- Collaborate with index managers to understand and interpret market data used to maintain and rebalance indices.
- Provide input to Index Committee meeting discussions and recommendations.
- Partner with engineering team to develop workflows to ingest and validate market data.
- Strong quantitative skills and the ability to troubleshoot and resolve data issues and follow escalation protocols for critical and unresolved issues.
- Ability to multi-task and contribute to key initiatives.
- Provide responses to client inquiries related to index data.
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in the financial industry with specific knowledge of cryptocurrencies.
- Undergraduate degree in quantitative or financial field such as finance, accounting, economics, mathematics, computer science, or engineering
- Experience managing financial data.
- Ability to build and support models using excel or other programming language
- Must be curious, a methodical thinker, and detail oriented
- Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complicated concepts
Preferred:
- Previous role researching and analyzing cryptocurrencies
- Experience with managing indices and/or portfolios.
- Programming experience including Python.
- Technical knowledge of blockchain protocols and smart contracts.