Principal Analyst

Celent Capital Markets - Principal Analyst

For over 20 years, Celent has helped senior executives make confident decisions around their technology strategies to execute at scale. As the financial services industry rapidly evolves, there is more complexity, with new regulations, startups, technologies, and applications to stay on top of and prioritize. Celent helps you connect this ever-changing puzzle. We offer objective advice and clarity, backed by a database of thousands of solutions and award-winning global best practice use cases. With real-life domain expertise, we also guide you through the maze of emerging tech in the pursuit of value. Our people, data, insights, and relationships form the foundation for you to use Celent to make confident technology decisions in financial services. We are now a part of GlobalData.

Celent, the rserach and advisory firm previously part of Oliver Wyman, until the acquisition by GlobalData in 2024.

Who we are...

GlobalData operates an intelligence platform that empowers leaders to act decisively in a world of complexity and change.

By uniting proprietary data, human expertise, and purpose-built AI into a single, connected platform, we help organizations see what's coming, move faster, and lead with confidence.

Our solutions are used by over 5,000 organizations across the world's largest industries, delivering tailored intelligence that supports strategic planning, innovation, risk management, and sustainable growth.

The role...

We are looking for an energetic and ambitious leader to contribute to the research and client agenda for the Capital Markets sector within Celent as a key member of the team of analysts charged with creating content and delivering research reports, advisory, consultancy and product development initiatives for executives within sell-side, buy-side, market infrastructure platforms, Vendors solution providers and the surrounding ecosystem of market participants.

It is a role that requires the candidate to contribute their own fresh innovative content and ideas, while contributing to the team's production of research, presentations, data collection and curation, client events and webinars, interviews, surveys, products and briefings against major research and client projects.

What you'll be doing...

• Be a key contributor to the grow profitably the client base and revenue of our Capital Markets team
• Shape the technology research agenda and annual plan for the Capital Markets sector, engaging with client executives and the team to gather requirements for fresh and innovative content that is in-demand and thought provoking.
• Be an independent thinker within the team structure and accountable for ensuring frequent and impactful leading edge content production and client service delivery, coaching and developing junior team members to become improving analysts and industry specialists, contributing towards the team's overall result.
• Become a brand ambassador for Celent, as a high-profile Capital Markets technology strategy influencer.
• Improve Celent's influence and impact growing our network of industry practitioners and exploring mutually beneficial partnerships (with the media, conference organizers, industry trade bodies, academics, and other influencers). They will also need to find smart ways to leverage content, horizontal themes and intellectual property across Celent and Global Data.
• Work with business development and client service teams to identify further opportunities for growth and achieve higher levels of existing client satisfaction.
• Ensure the integrity and quality of your work, while also ensuring the protection of client confidentiality.

What we're looking for...

We are looking for someone who is excited by the opportunities presented by emerging technologies within the Capital Markets sector and who has an acute focus on business value, with a keen interest in how the market structure and technology solution landscape will evolve over the next few years. They will need to maintain an optimistic but grounded and pragmatic perspective on what's possible.

The candidate should have sell-side and or buy-side tech and business subject matter expertise and be able to build trusted relationships with senior executives across the Capital Markets sector, whether they are the COO, CMO, CTO, business executive or technology solution provider CEO.

This is a senior role within the team, and the compensation is commensurate with the level of experience and the requirements outlined below.

• Excellent academic credentials from a top university.
• MBAs or other advanced degrees (MS, PhD, etc.), in or with option in data or computer science is preferred.

Professional experience

• 8+ years' experience in a top financial institution (sell-side and/or buy-side) with responsibility for technology strategy or delivery; or
• 8+ years' experience in a management consulting firm, or other research & advisory firm with focus in capital markets financial institutions (sell-side and/or buy-side) throughout that time.

Skill and expertise

• 8+ years Sell-side and/or Buy-side subject matter expertise
• 3+ years Agentic AI/ML use cases, implementation and practitioner experience
• Data Science experience, especially with a recognised leading Vendor is also desired
• Intellectual curiosity and the drive to learn about and master new areas of technology
• Commercial and team leadership experience, with a collaborative approach to problem solving, and the ability to work in a global, culturally diverse environment
• Outstanding communication skills both written and oral
• Proven high impact public presence, speaking and facilitation skills
• Strong understanding of research methods, qualitative and quantitative
• Intellectual curiosity and the drive to learn about and master new areas
• Ability to work independently

In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. To find out more about the roles and benefits on offer in your region, visit careers.globaldata.com

GlobalData believes strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. GlobalData is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

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