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Market and hedge fund ecosystem data play an important foundational role 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 do this by ensuring 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 fund investment and portfolio construction to collaborate directly with all of GCM's Absolute Return investment teams and get a hands-on introduction to the space.
RESPONSIBILITIES
EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
CULTURE
In terms of cultural fit, the successful candidate will be self-motivated and energized by working amongst a group of thoughtful, smart and successful colleagues. He or she will enjoy being part of an organization focused on excellence and will be a naturally collaborative person who enjoys interacting with individuals at all levels. Additionally, he or she will be a strong team player with a proactive approach and the ability to exercise discretion and judgment.
ABOUT THE FIRM
GCM Grosvenor (Nasdaq: GCMG) is a leading global alternative asset management solutions provider for more than 50 years. We have $73 billion in assets under management that we invest across investment verticals including private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, ESG & Impact, and absolute return investment strategies.
Our team of over 530 professionals is dedicated to delivering an exceptional value proposition for our global clients. The diversity of our employees is a driving factor of success, and is critical to our ability to create and deliver value to our clients. GCM has been committed to the advancement of small, emerging, and diverse managers for 20+ years. We are proud to offer our employees a comprehensive benefits package focused on health and wellness, continuing education, and work-life balance.
The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Learn more at www.gcmgrosvenor.com
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F/D/V
Market and hedge fund ecosystem data play an important foundational role 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 do this by ensuring 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 fund investment and portfolio construction to collaborate directly with all of GCM's Absolute Return investment teams and get a hands-on introduction to the space.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensuring timely and 100% accurate upload of monthly proprietary hedge fund Return and Exposure data into GCM investment data warehouses and systems. This includes: assisting in identifying unexpected 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.
- 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 new fund data.
- Backloading select hedge fund data time series into GCM Investment Data Warehouse according to pre-agreed project plan(s).
- Backloading select Private Equity portfolio company data time series into GCM investment data warehouse according to pre-agreed project plan(s).
- Producing periodic automated reporting demonstrating completion and quality status of aforementioned activities.
- Assisting with other adhoc data acquisition, upload and management tasks, capacity permitting.
EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree with a strong record of academic success is required.
- Solid Windows computer, data entry and management skills.
- Exceptionally strong process and detail orientations; you will find this role particularly satisfying if you find the creation and maintenance of large & detailed data sets satisfying and find the examination of periodic changes in data and trend information interesting.
- Full proficiency in Microsoft Office product suite, expert in Excel a plus.
- Comfort learning other business-related software interfaces.
- Desire and aptitude to grow knowledge about alternatives investing, hedge funds and private equity.
- Basic familiarity and/or desire and aptitude to learn basic database interaction commands (e.g. SQL, SQL-like) is preferred but not required.
- 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 preferred but not required.
CULTURE
In terms of cultural fit, the successful candidate will be self-motivated and energized by working amongst a group of thoughtful, smart and successful colleagues. He or she will enjoy being part of an organization focused on excellence and will be a naturally collaborative person who enjoys interacting with individuals at all levels. Additionally, he or she will be a strong team player with a proactive approach and the ability to exercise discretion and judgment.
ABOUT THE FIRM
GCM Grosvenor (Nasdaq: GCMG) is a leading global alternative asset management solutions provider for more than 50 years. We have $73 billion in assets under management that we invest across investment verticals including private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, ESG & Impact, and absolute return investment strategies.
Our team of over 530 professionals is dedicated to delivering an exceptional value proposition for our global clients. The diversity of our employees is a driving factor of success, and is critical to our ability to create and deliver value to our clients. GCM has been committed to the advancement of small, emerging, and diverse managers for 20+ years. We are proud to offer our employees a comprehensive benefits package focused on health and wellness, continuing education, and work-life balance.
The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Learn more at www.gcmgrosvenor.com
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F/D/V
