Data and Reporting Analyst at Man Group – London, England, United Kingdom

Job Description

About Man Group

Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.

Headquartered in London, we manage $193.3 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

Purpose of Role:

This is a Front Office role that is embedded within the private structured credit fund – part of our Discretionary division.

The candidate’s primary responsibilities will include i) updating the business’ database as and when new information is posted, ii) ensuring the data has been properly cleaned and troubleshooting all errors and failures, iii) writing code to improve the analysis and retrieval of data, iv) managing reporting for deal and portfolio risk/KPI’s, v) working with the team’s quantitative analyst to expand automated analytics systematically, vi) working with portfolio management and marketing to expand and improve reporting to portfolio management, investment committee, sales, limited partners and prospective investors.

The candidate will work closely with the team’s portfolio and quantitative analysts based in London to ensure the team’s business information is available and accurate at all times.

The ideal candidate will grow into the position by bringing engineering, data visualisation and coding capabilities to the job, with the opportunity to expand your growth within various pillars within the fund.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Configure, Update, Maintain, Clean and Upload data tapes and credit events (received from banks in an excel format), into a SQL database ensuring the management of the full ETL pipeline
• Management of vast datasets, daily, ensuring monitoring of data discrepancies and maintaining accuracy of data
• Updating, Generating and Expanding the monthly and quarterly reports produced by the fund, ensuring data accuracy across reporting tasks alongside independent expansion of reporting metrics and charting through Python
• Configure and upload portfolio/deal data to an external valuation agent and ensuring data is correct and reflective of portfolio
• Point of contact for data access from CPM/Portfolio Management

Technical Competencies:

• Degree educated in a STEM subject with a minimum 1st class or upper 2nd (or equivalent) achieved
• Basic understanding of financial instruments eg. Bonds, CDS’ and CDO’s
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a data analyst/visualisation role
• Computer literate with intermediate skills within Python, utilising VS Code (or equivalent IDE), Jupyter and Github on a day-to-day basis, with Tbleau being preferable
• Collaboration, communication, organisation, and presentation skills together with the ability to confidently deal with multiple stakeholders
• Ability to write and communicate in a clear, concise and ‘audience-appropriate’ manner with prudent and detailed understanding of underlying data