Instrument Data Management - Intern

Your Team Responsibilities

The Manila Time Series team is part of the Instrument Data function under the wider Data Content Services group. The team performs quality assurance and maintains data integrity for both exchange-traded and over-the-counter instruments delivered by external vendors which are then utilized by MSCI Analytics products and risk platforms.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Project Lead: Work closely with the Project Lead to gain an understanding of the current data infrastructure, processes, and business requirements related to data quality assurance.

• Process Mapping: Develop detailed process maps to identify potential areas for automation, focusing on improving efficiency, reducing errors, and accelerating workflows within the data validation processes.

• Automation Opportunities: Identify and recommend at least 2-3 key areas where automation can be applied to streamline operations, increase speed, and improve overall process accuracy.

• Design Decision Trees: Design and implement scalable decision trees for automated data validation, ensuring consistency and accuracy across various data validation tasks and processes.

• Python Script Development: Create and optimize Python test scripts for validating large datasets, ensuring data accuracy and integrity, and reducing manual validation time by 70%-80%.

• Test Script Optimization: Continuously improve and optimize test scripts to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability while ensuring these can efficiently handle large datasets.

• Data Validation: Perform automated validation to ensure that data meets predefined criteria, achieving at least 95% accuracy.

• Operational Efficiency: Contribute to driving operational efficiency by reducing manual intervention, automating critical QA processes, and improving the overall speed and accuracy of data validation workflows.

• Reporting and Documentation: Provide regular updates on progress, document key findings, and present actionable insights to the Project Lead.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• Course: Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Information Technology (IT)
• Skills: Proficiency in SQL and Python is a must. Experience in handling big data and has a good understanding of data infrastructures

• Can join the Internship Program from June to August 2025

About MSCI

What we offer you

• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.

• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.

• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.

• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.

• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.

• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.

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At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose – to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

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