Financial Data Analyst - GP Fund Solutions

Job Title: Financial Data Analyst

Company: GPFS is the fund administrator of choice for a wide range of clients in the US, UK, and EU. Every day, with every decision and every client interaction, our values serve as guideposts, to improve the quality of our work, and strengthen our employee and client relationships.

As a business that is all about people; culture isn't an initiative, it's an innate value that's critical to every decision we make. At GPFS, people come first.

At GPFS, diversity is a source of strength, both from our people and ideas. GPFS is a collaborative team-oriented organization where we support each other both personally and professionally. Our culture is defined by our behavior, our curiosity and our support of innovative ideas and perspectives.

Our inclusive culture supports and encourages our team members to try new things, share ideas openly and always ask the question why. It brings us together and makes the team stronger by inspiring all to connect, belong and thrive.

Location: Latham, NY

Job Type: Full-time

This position is part of a growing team at GPFS which focuses on providing comprehensive data and reporting solutions for Private Market clients. In this role you will focus on the ingestion, normalization, and enhancement of data (i.e., accounting, financial, regulatory) from multiple sources to support and maintain reporting needs for various organizational stakeholders.

Essential Duties:

• Utilize data cleaning techniques and tools to handle missing values, outliers, and inconsistencies in large and complex datasets.
• Understand and apply private market reporting concepts to data modeling and report automation.
• Carry out exploratory data analysis.
• Provide support for a range of reporting applications, including custom-built solutions and third-party tools to enable reporting across the organization.
• Optimize and maintain workflows related to data processing tasks.
• Reconcile reporting output to source documents.
• Drive process improvement or automation.
• Demonstrate attention to detail and accuracy.
• Prioritize and work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Research and resolve issues with various degrees of complexity.
• Work as a strong team member as well as an independent contributor.
• Flexibility to work hours needed to complete client deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree: in Finance/Economics, Mathematics
• Master's in data Analytics or related preferred
• 0 – 2 years of data analytics in a finance setting

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Excel / VBA
• SQL / SSRS
• R / Python
• Business Intelligence / visualization software
• Data Analytics experience in private market data 
• Statistics or computer science background 
• AI / NLP / LLM background a plus

Competencies

1. Intellectual curiosity - researching methods or ideas that could benefit the group or project.
2. Self-motivation - ability to work independently.
3. Analytical skills – understanding relationships within the data and disseminating information accurately.
4. Organized

1. Highly flexible - adapting to new formats, tools, and sometimes ambiguous work environment.
2. Results Driven - working through multiple iterations to achieve success.
3. Collaborative – working with multiple groups both within and outside the organization.

1. Detailed Orientated
2. Ethical

Work Environment

This role operates in a modern professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and photocopiers.

GPFS Vision

Our purpose is to create enduring relationships with our employees and clients by consistently delivering exceptional opportunities and service.

GPFS Value Statement

Investing in people and culture

Core Values

Camaraderie: Being supportive of one another and celebrating each other's successes

Excellence: Consistently delivering exceptional work and going above and beyond

Empowerment: Fostering a deep sense of agency and ownership over one's choices and actions

Innovation: The drive to think differently and solve problems creatively

Inclusion: Recognizing individual's unique strengths and perspectives with mutual trust and respect

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