Senior Global Fund Performance Associate, Preqin, a part of BlackRock
3+ days a week in office
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
Job no longer available
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
We are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees.
Role
Who you are
- Understanding of performance reporting and the alternative assets industry
- Experience in working with data analysts, engineers, and data scientists to develop and automate data pipelines using a mix of tools such as Python, Excel and Alteryx (e.g. extraction, cleaning, manipulation, review, and testing)
- Excellent Excel skills, including advanced functions and data manipulation
- Experience in answering client data requests and queries
- Proficiency in programming languages is a plus
- Grit and independence, with the ability to work autonomously and take ownership of projects
What the job involves
- The Global Fund Performance team is responsible for overseeing the collection, validation, analysis and dissemination of fund performance data in line with Preqin’s reporting standards
- This helps ensure Preqin’s platform provides great coverage of timely, quality and robust performance data on alternative assets
- This role sits in the Benchmarks function within the Global Fund Performance team. As a Senior Research Associate, your primary focus will be to support the end-to-end production of benchmark tools to enhance and refine benchmark-related products and tools, ensuring accurate and reliable data through rigorous testing and quality assurance
- Additionally, you will handle incoming queries, support regional initiatives and contribute to projects aimed at improving data coverage, quality and processes
- Reporting To: AVP, Global Fund Performance, Data
- Work closely with the Benchmark business unit, data analytics and engineering team to review and improve the methodology of benchmark-related products
- Support the end-to-end production of benchmark tools (Indices, HIRR, market benchmarks), including defining specifications of workflow development, conducting rigorous data extraction, review & manipulation, testing, and finally surfacing the data onto the platform
- Become a subject matter expert of Preqin’s benchmark tools, understanding the inner workings of the database and how this translates onto the platform
- Ensure the accuracy and reliability of the benchmark dataset through quality assurance checks and data validation
- Action on incoming queries, feedback and complex data requests via JIRA and other workflow streams from different departments such as Client Services and Sales, stepping in on client calls when required
- Identify and implement workflow improvements using tools like Alteryx, Salesforce, and Outreach
- Support regional initiatives and projects to enhance both the dataset and Preqin’s brand within the region
- Oversee and produce high-quality analysis for research reports, publications, blogs and presentations
- Contribute to ad-hoc projects across the team to help improve data coverage, quality and processes
- Conduct various quality checks across profiles such as data entry quality checks for offshore teams and systematic checks to identify potentially suspect figures
Application process
- Stage 1
- Introduction Call
- We will schedule a 30 minute call with a member of the recruitment team, for us to get to know you better
- The purpose of this call is to find out more about your experience and to give you the opportunity to ask any questions about the role, company, process
- We look forward to speaking with you!
- Stage 2
- 1st Stage Interview
- This will be a 1st stage interview - The purpose of this call is to delve deeper into your experience and to give you the opportunity to ask any questions about the role, company, process
- Stage 3
- 2nd Stage Interview
- This will be a 2nd stage interview - We will talk through your skills and experience and give you the opportunity to ask any further questions
- This whole process is as much about you getting to know us, as it is about us getting to know you
- Stage 4
- Final Interview
- This will be a final interview with potential future team members, giving you a chance to get to know each other and for you to really get to know our company culture
- Stage 5
- Offer
- After your interviews, if everything is positive, we will be delighted to progress to offer stage
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Preqin is a London-based investment data company empowering the alternative asset market with essential data and insights. Supporting customers throughout the entire investment lifecycle, Preqin provides them with critical information leading to analytical solutions.
Preqin has produced advanced methods of collecting private data for 20 years. Its products allow a customer base of over 200,000 professionals to streamline how they raise capital, source deals and investments, understand performance, and stay informed.
As a global company, Preqin is working with software providers, world-renowned institutions, and industry associations around the globe to build innovative products, tools, and research that helps connect data to critical decisions. It's had a successful history, and will look to continue on a strong growth path ahead.
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Company benefits
- Hybrid workplace & unlimited holiday allowance
- Parental leave: maternity & paternity leave policies
- Pension/retirement contributions: contributions are matched up to 14%, with only a 4% personal contribution needed
- Full medical insurance for you and your dependents, includes cover on pre-existing conditions.
- Annual health assessment
- Medicash and Dental Cover options
- Discounted gym membership
- Access to discount & reward programs
- Family forming benefit, to help you start a family on your terms.
Company values
- We are a fiduciary to our clients. This is the bedrock of our identity; it reflects our integrity and the unbiased advice we give our clients.
- We are One BlackRock. We work collaboratively to create the best outcomes for our clients, our firm and the communities where we operate.
- We are passionate about performance. We are relentless in innovating and finding better ways to serve our clients and improve our firm.
- We take emotional ownership. We have a deep sense of responsibility to our clients and to each other.
- We are committed to a better future. We are long-term thinkers, focused on helping people build a better tomorrow.
Company HQ
Victoria, London, UK
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Preqin, a part of BlackRock
- We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
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