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Hedge Fund Risk & Investment Analytics Analyst

Summary

Analyze hedge fund risk and investment data using SQL, Python, and dashboards to validate analytics, detect anomalies, and improve processes with AI/LLM opportunities.

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in “Hedge Fund Risk & Investment Analytics”. You have found the right team.

As “Hedge Fund Risk & Investment Analytics Professional ” within our dynamic team, you will be responsible for setting and improving our organizational objectives, and ensuring their consistent accomplishment.

Job Responsibilities

  • Partner with Risk and Data Analytics & Technology teams to manage data-driven projects and process enhancements.
  • Develop repeatable workflows (intake → validation → remediation → publish) with clear documentation and ownership.
  • Validate portfolio analytics dashboards to ensure accuracy, usability, and scalability of investment datasets.
  • Investigate anomalies to determine root cause (data, logic, calculation, mapping) and implement fixes.
  • Create quality checks and exception reporting to reduce recurring breaks and improve confidence in outputs.
  • Support hedge fund due diligence by validating, curating, and maintaining manager data quality (completeness, consistency, timeliness).
  • Produce analytics and data views that help stakeholders assess managers and identify trends/outliers.
  • Implement monitoring for completeness, outliers, breaks, and stale fields with thresholds, escalation paths, and audit-ready evidence.
  • Document remediation actions with clear ownership, controls, and repeatability.
  • Review statistical packages/tooling and recommend improvements for maintainability and fitness for purpose.
  • Identify high-value AI/LLM opportunities to accelerate analytics and data workflows (capture, flags, highlights, automation, query assistance).

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • At least 1 year of experience working with large datasets using SQL and Python.
  • Experience developing or improving data management processes (controls, monitoring, documentation, repeatability).
  • Experience at an investment firm.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative/analytical field (Finance, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong communication skills to translate data issues and technical choices into clear stakeholder updates.
  • Detail-oriented approach to detect inconsistencies and drive issues through to resolution.
  • Analytical skills to form hypotheses, test quickly, and validate outputs.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Experience with Tableau.
  • Experience with Streamlit.
  • Familiarity with RiskMetrics (or equivalent risk/analytics tooling).
  • Prior exposure to hedge fund manager/ due diligence analytics and datasets.
  • Experience applying or prototyping AI/LLM solutions for analytics and workflow acceleration.
  • Experience evaluating and improving statistical tooling for process fit and maintainability.

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