The Program Management Office for Investments (PMOfI) is defining and executing how Investment Management should operate across process, organization and technology domains in order to accomplish the department goals and objectives. To that end, PMOfI is seeking for a an energetic, creative and intellectually curious individual with strong analytical skills to join our team as a Senior Investment Data Analyst.  This is a new role that will have the opportunity to design and implement processes that will support the timely delivery of complete and accurate investment data to IM stakeholders. Responsibilities will initially include design of business-as-usual production work and ad-hoc projects that support continuous improvement of data delivery processes.  The Senior Investment Data Analyst role resides within the IM Investment Operations organization and will partner extensively with members of the IM Portfolio Management team; corporate finance and technology stakeholders and external business partners, including asset managers.

High Level Responsibilities:

• Perform analysis of business process, procedures, data and rules
• Experience with data-centric architectures, multi-dimensional time series, and techniques to guarantee robust data integrity
• Demonstrated ability to identify and understand critical business features that drive value, and translate those into solid technical solutions
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to effectively and confidently interact with business and technical personnel, at all levels in the organization
• Deep database expertise, including logical design, physical design, performance design and tuning
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring skills
• Strong knowledge of the investment management industry, asset liability management, and risk management across multiple asset classes, public and private, including derivatives
• Candidates must combine an attention to detail with the ability to see the big picture
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively using verbal and written methods to all levels of an organization
• Proficient with standard documentation tools (Visio, Excel, Word)
• Capable of applying knowledge to handle all but the most complex problems independently
• Drives continuous improvement and efficiencies beyond own scope of responsibility

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required
• 8+ years of data experience with an understanding of systems and data management.
• 5+ years of investment data experience and data management
• Exceptional data analysis experience working with large data sets and multiple sources of data.  Expert user of excel and proficient with SQL/Oracle query tools.
• Can work with limited guidance on complex projects.  Anticipates change and is comfortable with multiple priorities 
• Strong quantitative orientation, analytical skills, a high level of intellectual curiosity, tolerance for ambiguity and seasoned judgment. 
• Must be able to explore multiple solutions to a problem and present and defend solutions based on an analysis of facts and an understanding of client needs
• Desire to learn and ability to apply learnings to business issues
• Self-starter with proven ability to organize and direct quality work efforts
• Ability to communicate well across all levels of the organization
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team based environment

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