Research Assistant, Securities Team

Salary

£20k + plus, according to experience, plus excellent benefits

Introduction

The Bank of England, as the United Kingdom’s central bank, exists to ensure both monetary and financial stability. Monetary and Financial Statistics Division (MFSD) collects monetary and financial data from banks and building societies operating in the United Kingdom. These data are used by, amongst others, the Monetary Policy Committee, the Bank’s financial stability area and the Office for National Statistics as well as overseas institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements.

Follow this link, http://externalboeweb/statistics/index.htm, for more information about the division, and its statistical outputs.


The Job:

Financial Statistics Group is looking for an enthusiastic research assistant to work in the securities team. The rates and securities team consists of five people and produces statistics and briefing on interest rates and capital issuance.

The jobholder’s main responsibility is to compile the capital issuance data and produce the capital issuance monthly statistical release. This involves liaising with a panel of data suppliers to ensure that the information supplied is accurate, running systems on a bespoke database to aggregate the individual data submissions and checking the final aggregate statistics. They will also produce the main outputs including an internet statistical release and data exports to various users and will be the contact person for public enquiries relating to capital issuance statistics.

There will also be an opportunity to contribute to the Capital Issues Project which is investigating how best to collect and compile capital issues data.


Skills/competencies required:

The jobholder has a high level of responsibility for published outputs so needs to be able to produce accurate statistics to tight deadlines. They also need the ability to prioritise different tasks and drive work forward.

Candidates need to be able to build up good relationships with our reporters. Strong IT skills, especially Excel, are needed as well as the ability to learn to use MFSD’s inhouse databases.


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