Accountant

Location

Newark, DE | United States

Job description

Kforce has a client that is seeking an Accountant in Newark, DE. Overview: The Index Calculation Agent team in Delaware is responsible for the daily price validation of fixed income instruments included in the Company's global fixed income flagship benchmarks, covering both developed and emerging markets. The team manages and runs the index calculation engine used for daily and monthly index operations, client reporting and publication generation. The team interacts daily with the Global Index Research Group, a part of the Company Corporate Investment Banking Research, across its global footprint (in New York, London, and Asia) to ensure that the index processes, requests, and systems are operating efficiently. Functions performed by the wider team in CIB include Fixed Income market research to produce robust cutting-edge benchmark products and custom solutions for institutional investors and ETF providers, across the globe; client interaction for strategic queries on index products; commercialization of index services and analytical tools to buy-side clients and vendors; implementation of new index analytics tools and platform for better client service. Essential Functions:

• Daily validation of bond prices
• Work with pricing vendor and technology team to resolve issues and ensure production is successful
• Generate and maintain month-end Index rebalance and composition reports by garnering information on new bond issuance and auction/buy-back activities
• Complete all daily and monthly tasks within deadline
• Resolve client queries promptly and professionally
• Participate and present in internal monthly team meetings
• Escalate all issues promptly and effectively to supervisor

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Salary

$24 - $26 per hour