职位描述:
Title: Data Associate (Economics and Country Risk)
Summary:
- The data associate works as part of the data operatio team to process and ingest macroeconmic data releases that are used by internal and external clients. This position is for a Data Associate that is fluent in English. Hehe will work on a team to contribute to general updating and project work for the group as a whole.
Roles and Respoibilities:
- Timely updating of assigned sources into Global Iight databases
- Quality checking the data before release
- Managing changes on source websites, data formats, feed guides
- Research and adding new data and/or sources as requested by internal or external clients
- Provide second level support to customer tickets
- Process improvement feedback to data team and management
- Participation in special projects assigned by supervisor?????
Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Economics or equivalent educational or work experience in processing or working with economic data or relevant technical experience or interest.
Required Experience:.
- Work effectively as a team member in an environment with a great deal of ‘work sharing’ and cooperative activities
- The ability to undetand data discrepancies and data that require additional examination before ingestion and release to databases and clients.
- Extreme comfort and proficiency using the web for research and news gathering
- Be able to work independently and keep management apprised of any special data or release processing requirements.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Demotrate proficiency in using Microsoft Office products including Excel macros for use in processing data.
- Undetand and utilize Internet Explorer to surf the web to view source sites, create and use bookmarks, to use search engines such as ‘Google’ to undertake research on data assignments.
Other skills:
- Fluency in English is required, Japanese & Korean language skills desirable but not required
- VBA programming will be a big plus