Risk Management Analyst
Market and hedge fund ecosystem data play an important foundational role in our investment process, and contribute to our investment edge. We are looking for a highly detail and process-oriented, data management savvy team member to help enable the data-driven aspects of our investment underwriting, monitoring and performance evaluation processes. The right individual will ensure that hard-to-onboard information is appropriately collected, cared for, and input into our investment systems and processes.
The role is an excellent way for new graduates or highly competent business professionals without prior exposure to hedge funds (or financial data generally) to collaborate directly with all Absolute Return investment teams and get a hands-on introduction to the space.
The individual will be involved in the following critical activities:
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Ensuring timely and 100% accurate upload of monthly proprietary hedge fund Return and Exposure data into investment data warehouses and systems. This includes: assisting in identifying unexpected
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real-time data collection and/or quality gaps, and ensuring proprietarily-sourced data is received and stored according to agreed-upon timelines with industry hedge fund managers.
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Assisting in reconciliation of publicly available fund database information to GCM data stores, and facilitating decisions and recommendation documentation by hedge fund research teams about newfund data.
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Backloading select hedge fund data time series into GCM Investment Data Warehouse according to pre-agreed project plan(s).
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Backloading select Private Equity portfolio company data time series into GCM investment data
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warehouse according to pre-agreed project plan(s).
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Producing periodic automated reporting demonstrating completion and quality status of
aforementioned activities.
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Assisting with other ad-hoc data acquisition, upload, and management tasks, capacity permitting.
The ideal experience and critical competencies for the role include the following:
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Bachelor’s degree with a strong record of academic success is required.
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Solid Windows computer, data entry and management skills.
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Exceptionally strong process and detail orientations; you will find this role particularly satisfying if you find the creation and maintenance of large & and detailed data sets satisfying and find the examination of periodic changes in data and trend information interesting.
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Full proficiency in Microsoft Office product suite, expert in Excel a plus.
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Comfort learning other business-related software interfaces.
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Desire and aptitude to grow knowledge about alternatives investing, hedge funds and private equity.
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Basic familiarity and/or desire and aptitude to learn basic database interaction commands (e.g. SQL, SQL-like) is a plus but not required.
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Basic familiarity with investment ecosystem-related terms and concepts, e.g. returns, market value, investment asset classes, types of traded instruments, common income and balance sheet metrics is a plus but not required.