Data Collection and Validation Specialist

Alternative Path is seeking an Analyst – Data Collection to assist one of its clients, which is a well-known global Asset Management firm. Our client has a team whose job is to collect financial and non-financial data from various sources. This data gives various investment teams insights into different areas and helps them make better investment decisions.

In this role, you would be responsible for working with a team of data analysts and serving as a steward to periodically extract and validate data from various sources, like PPTs, charts, and graphs etc. You will also be responsible for managing the entire Data collection process.

Role Summary

Collecting data from various platforms and then analyzing and studying data patterns. Then, ingesting / sharing them with the respective audience through the database, S3 buckets, and various other mechanisms.

Role Overview

The data team at Alternative Path is seeking a creative and detail-oriented analyst to contribute to client projects. The team collects and analyzes data and shares the information and insights with various teams within the client’s organization, supporting their daily investment decisions.

The mission is to maintain operational excellence by delivering high-quality analysis. We are seeking someone who is self-motivated, self-sufficient, with a passion for data.

Requirements

In your role, you will :

➢ Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and collect the requirements.

➢ Responsible for creating processes around data collection from various sources.

➢ Extract financial, non-financial data from various data sources like PPTs, websites, databases, financial reports, various charts / graphs, etc.

➢ Identify potential mistakes and outliers in data based on defined data checks.

➢ Prepare various reports on send them to stakeholders

➢ Achieve process SLAs / metrics, productivity, and quality targets within the established timelines

➢ Ensure process guidelines are followed and met as documented

➢ Suggest enhancements to the process to make it more robust and efficient

➢ Report to the team leader on performance status and any escalations

Qualifications : Must have

➢ Proficient in working with Advanced MS Excel

➢ Must be a graduate (B.Tech / MBA / B.Com) with 2-3 years of experience in back office processing

➢ Must have a good understanding of Finance.

➢ Good communication skills. Preferred

➢ Knowledge of Python is good to have

➢ Knowledge of the Alternative Asset Industry.

➢ Knowledge of Database tools like MYSQL.