Vice President, Client Data Oversight

About Us:

PIMCO is one of the world's premier fixed income investment managers with more than 2,200 professionals around the world united in a single purpose: creating opportunities for our clients in every environment. Since 1971, we have brought innovation and expertise to our partnership with the institutions, financial advisors and millions of individual investors who entrust us with their assets. We aspire to cultivate performance and leadership through empowering our people, diversity of thought, and a commitment to an inclusive culture that engages in our global communities.

Position Description:

Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) is seeking a motivated, hands-on client data quality analyst for its Client Data Oversight team. In this role the incumbent will facilitate collaboration with the team that manages distribution data and IT resources to deliver business value through creating, maintaining, and presenting actionable client data insights.
The incumbent will partner with internal business members to ensure delivery of data projects by profiling datasets, communicating data model requirements, validating quality of data, and day-to-day oversight of the client data quality. This function facilitates client business growth for PIMCO through improved data quality / completeness and simplified data management.
The successful incumbent will possess strong analytics skills, a demonstrated ability to analyze data to enhance and operate processes that create and maintain data in the client data warehouse. This role requires a continuous analytical assessment of the client reference master data and CRM data to assess the effectiveness and quality of distribution data management efforts and ensure that client information is of the highest accuracy and completeness prior to populating PIMCO's internal systems and reporting applications.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead the client data profile quality efforts to assess and ensure ongoing accuracy of information across PIMCO and with suppliers and customers.
• Consolidate data providing a common view of a client while also offering the flexibility to meet business unit information needs.
• Develop data prototypes to confirm business requirements and expectations to IT.
• Develop and participate in the review of requirements, data mappings, use cases and other artifacts to communicate the system requirements to the technical team.
• Enrich the client data through routine uploads of new dimensional data.
• Provide client support for questions regarding data.
• Provide ad hoc querying support for data analysis by various client groups.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree required, preferably in a business- or technology-related field of study. A Master's Degree is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years professional experience with data analysis, including an understanding of entity relationship modeling and/or dimensional modeling.
• Minimum 3 years of experience within the Asset Management industry.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with key Data Management principles, master data management, reference data management, data cataloguing, policies/procedures, management information and/or data engineering.
• A high technical aptitude, including proficiency in SQL and relational database concepts, as well as Microsoft Office tools, including Excel.
• Competent in analytical tools such as R, Python.
• Proactively curious, self-sufficient professional able to convey complex ideas and datasets to actionable uses for CRM, reporting, and business analytics.

Additional Desired Skills/Experience:

• Prior Management Consulting experience from a top tier consultancy focused on the Financial Services industry.
• Experience with business intelligence tools such as Tableau or MicroStrategy.
• Working knowledge of the financial services industry.
• Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate across all levels, document requirements, and lead key requirement workshops.

Professional Skills Requirements

• Excellent communication (verbal and written), facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong attention to detail and quality, with the ability to keep larger goals in mind.
• Active learner and continuously eager to acquire new skills to succeed in a dynamic evolving environment.
• Results-oriented and entrepreneurial, proven ability to work creatively and analytically.
• Strong process-orientation with a client-servicing mind-set.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Highly motivated with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high energy, and demanding team-oriented environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently while managing multiple projects, assignments and/or responsibilities.

Benefits:

• PIMCO is committed to offering a comprehensive portfolio of employee benefits designed to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family. These benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day of employment.
• 401k Savings and Retirement Plan
• Work/Life Programs such as Flexible Work Arrangements, Parental Leave & Support, Employee Assistance Plan, and Educational/CFA Certification Reimbursement Programs.
• Community involvement opportunities with The PIMCO Foundation in each PIMCO office.