Index Specialist

The position provides a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience across the full lifecycle of index administration—from data quality checks to index reviews, and process automation. You will play a key role in ensuring that our indexes meet the highest standards required by ETF issuers, asset managers, and institutional clients worldwide. This role is a great fit for candidates with experience or interest in indexing, market data, or the ETF ecosystem who want to grow within a multicultural team, learn all areas of index operations, and be involved in new index initiatives. Please note you should be available for early working hours for this role (starting the day at around 4am IST).

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Includes the following, other duties may be assigned as needed:

• Monitor market conditions, data feeds, and input sources to proactively identify and resolve all issues impacting index maintenance and perform daily quality assurance checks to maintain high data integrity. Please note this duty requires early working shifts.
• Research and monitor corporate actions (e.g. dividends) and complex events (e.g. M&As).
• Prepare and validate data for calendar-based and trigger-based index rebalances, ensuring accuracy and compliance with methodology rules.
• Respond to client inquiries on index composition, methodology, data, corporate actions or other related items.
• Prepare regular index data, reports and operational insights to internal teams.
• Support the creation and maintenance of operational dashboards and process documentation.
• Collaborate with internal teams to design, implement, and enhance automation for review processes, monitoring tools, data delivery and seamless operational workflows.
• Take a proactive approach in identifying opportunities to improve team efficiency and elevate service quality, contributing innovative ideas and solutions to enhance overall performance.
  
  

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in written and spoken English is required. German and other languages are a plus.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required. Competency in programming languages (such as Python, R, SQL) and process automation is a plus.
• Understanding of financial data sets and financial data applications is required.
• Strong communication skills and a team-oriented approach.
• Basic understanding of capital markets and digital asset (crypto) markets, with a strong interest in how traditional finance and digital assets intersect.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required.
• Ability to work 4am IST to 1pm IST on weekdays
  
  

Education And/or Experience

• Degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics or similar
• 0-5 years’ experience
  
  

MarketVector Indexes GmbH – A VanEck Company

MarketVector Indexes develops, monitors and markets the MarketVector Indexes, a focused selection of pure-play and investable indexes designed to underlie financial products. They cover several asset classes including hard assets and international equity markets as well as fixed income markets. MarketVector Indexes is the index business of VanEck, a US-based investment management firm and provider of the VanEck Vectors ETFs. Approximately USD 150 billion in assets under management are currently invested in financial products based on MarketVector Indexes. Many of those products are the largest in their investment category. MarketVector Indexes also develops and maintains customized indexes for third parties that aim to track specific investment themes. #MarketVector