Investment Operations Analyst

Job Summary

The Investment Operations Analyst will play a key role in supporting the Investment Management office by ensuring timely, accurate, and scalable operational and accounting workflows. This role combines traditional investment operations responsibilities with portfolio accounting, cash management, and process oversight, alongside modern technical skills, including light coding, API-driven data extraction, and data-warehouse management. This position is crucial to building a modern, efficient operational infrastructure that empowers the investment team with accurate, accessible data. The Analyst will help accelerate Investment Management’s shift toward automation and analytics, reducing manual processes while improving the reliability and consistency of operational and financial information used for decision-making.

Duties & Essential Job Functions

Investment Operations

1. Onboards new investments, records transactions, and analyzes complex and non-traditional investments which involve non-standard contracts, cash flow processing, valuations, liquidity terms, various investment attributes, and document management throughout the investment lifecycle
2. Supports trade processing, cash management, capital calls/distributions, and performance reporting workflows, including coordination of reconciliations and data alignment with custodians and administrators.
3. Monitors accounting data integrity and reconciliation exceptions, identifies discrepancies, and ensures timely resolution with internal teams and external partners.
4. Assists in the preparation of financial and investment reports, dashboards, and periodic portfolio analytics.
5. Maintains staff confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential.

Data Integration & Automation

6. Pulls data from various systems (e.g., custodians, fund administrators, CRM, portfolio monitoring tools) via APIs, scheduled extracts, or custom scripts, ensuring alignment across operational and accounting data sources.
7. Evaluates data infrastructure and builds and maintains automated pipelines to ingest, clean, and validate data to support consistent downstream reporting and reconciliations.
8. Collaborates with technology partners to enhance data architecture, troubleshoot integration issues, and ensure system reliability for core operational and accounting functions.
9. Implements quality checks and exception reporting to improve data accuracy, financial control and operational efficiency.

Technical / Coding Duties

10. Writes and maintains light scripts (e.g., Python, SQL, or similar languages) to transform and move data between systems.
11. Supports the design and maintenance of datasets used for performance measurement, risk analytics, and investment reporting.
12. Creates documentation and standard operating procedures for data workflows and integrations with an emphasis on repeatable accounting processes and internal controls.
13. Performs other related duties as assigned.