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What is BVAL?

Bloomberg's Evaluated Pricing (BVAL) business is a market leader in fixed income pricing and the pricing provider to the Bloomberg Indices. BVAL prices over 2.5 million bonds, multiple times daily for clients across buy side, sell side and custodial clients. Mutual funds, money managers, hedge funds, internal pricing groups, and auditors rely on BVAL to establish fair and independent fixed income asset valuations. We are known for:  

• Transparent methodologies that aid clients in the full investment lifecycle  
• Pricing data provided how and when clients want it  
• Legendary customer support  

The Role:  

 
BVAL Evaluators are capital markets experts responsible for employing relevant, innovative, and leading-edge valuation models that leverage Bloomberg’s in-house analytics to provide high-quality data for the front office, middle office, and operations. We are seeking a valuation specialist for the BVAL Municipal Evaluation team to help advance the BVAL offering, provide accurate pricing and excellent service to BVAL clients. The current team consists of a high performing group of professionals with extensive and varied experiences, including former traders, portfolio managers, and research analysts.  
 
We’ll trust you to: 

• Design and support valuation models and systems to provide clients with evaluated prices for Municipal Securities 
• Work closely with other BVAL team members, Business Development, and Engineering to develop innovative models and enhance our Muni Products offering  
• Assist clients who use BVAL prices for NAV, P&L and/or risk analytic purposes 
• Discuss markets, complex valuation models, and pricing questions with colleagues and clients  
• Collaborate with multiple groups across reporting lines and support downstream product including sales and business to identify and implement workflow improvements and operational efficiencies 

 
You'll need to have:  

• A minimum of 4 years of trading, portfolio management, securities valuations or research experience within the Investment Grade or High Yield Municipal bond universe. Additional experience with credit analysis and evaluation is a plus.  
• A deep understanding of the fixed income market, strong knowledge of market drivers, bond structures, fixed income analytics and pricing approaches 
• Demonstrated experience learning and navigating complex systems, including databases and analytical models  
• Excellent Excel skills, including the ability to create financial models, perform statistical analysis and work with large data sets to help design and support BVAL’s valuation models  
• Experience articulating complex valuation models in a clear and concise manner with internal and external constituents  
• Legal authorization to work full-time in the United States and will not require visa sponsorship now or in the future 

 
We'd love to see:
 


• Knowledge of the Bloomberg Terminal  
• Advanced technical skills such as VBA and/or Python  
• Experience trading, investing or analyzing of Municipal Securities 
• Direct or indirect experience working with engineers in a time-sensitive environment 
 
Does this sound like you?  

Apply if you think we're a good match and we'll get in touch with you to let you know next steps. In the meantime, check out http://www.bloomberg.com/professional. Enterprise Data page: https://data.bloomberg.com/  
 
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