Market Data Analyst
What you'd do
The Division of Data (DoD) is headed by the Chief Data Officer and serves as the leading authority on developing, implementing, and operating the Commission's data strategies. The Division is comprised of the Data Operations and Standards Branch (DOSB) and the Enterprise Data Analytics (EDA) section. This position is in the Market Data Operations Section within the Data Operations& Standards Branch.
Major duties
Duties Performs at an expert level developing reports and analytic tools to monitor and improve data quality and reporting compliance. The incumbent will often lead efforts under the direction of the Associate Director, Deputy Director, or Director to identify the specific analyses needed for these reports and tools and then complete the work either independently or as part of a team. Independently analyzes the most complex and highly sophisticated data and trends, and prepares responses to data quality inquiries, presentations and briefings for Branch and CFTC leadership to address compliance, completeness, consistency, and quality of the Commission's core data collections. Analyzes participating firms' positions, ownership and control data, and a wide variety of swaps, futures, and other derivatives data by monitoring the reports file by exchanges, futures commission merchants (FCMs), traders, Swap Data Repository (SDR), Swap Execution Facility (SEF), and resolves reporting problems. The incumbent provides guidance and recommendations to reporting entities and market participants, CFTC staff and the general public. Creates reports and automated procedures to monitor and ensure that reporting entities submit data accurately. He/she examines error reports, analyzes discrepancies, and communicates with exchange personnel to assure the resolution of discrepancies and compliance with the Commission's regulations. Facilitates the creation of financial industry reports that are consumed by the general public. Develops tools and procedures to expedite the creation of those reports. Directs staff that assist in the creation of those reports. Conducts data analyses to facilitate CFTC's enforcement actions including referrals to the Division of Enforcement (DOE) and trials and administrative hearings on cases involving alleged reporting violations and speculative limits. He/She explains the CFTC data collection program in support of other CFTC enforcement activities.
What you need to qualify
CT – 14 Level: To qualify for the CT-14 level you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS/CT-13 level). Specialized experience is defined as that through which one has gained experience: - Analyzing and applying knowledge of the interrelationships between Financial Regulatory data systems, or rapidly acquiring such knowledge, to design and implement procedures that optimize data utility and safeguard data integrity. - Delivering proven results by leveraging analytic programming languages – particularly Python – in operational or production environments in the Financial Regulatory environment to streamline processes, automate reporting, and enhance data analysis. - Identifying extracting and integrating relevant information from multiple financial regulatory data sources; selecting optimal analytic methods; and anticipating emerging issues or future needs related to data quality and reporting compliance. - Designing, deploying, and maintaining dynamic Python-based analytic tools and automated solutions to support complex data monitoring or reporting functions and advance organizational compliance objectives. - Applying enforcement and/or compliance principles, concepts, methodologies, and laws in the Financial Regulatory environment to develop new approaches, methods, or procedures in data gathering and analysis techniques, and using these approaches to recognize and resolve discrepancies and/or inconsistencies among findings, and working to obtain and/or reconstruct missing or withheld documents and information. - Analyzing complex data to regularly and repeatedly generate industry facing reports which describes activity in the financial regulatory space. Demonstrated skill in tracing data related issues in external facing data back to their origin in data received by financial regulatory institutions, and then resolving those issues by working with the entities that provided the data.
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