Asset Analytics Data Operations Analyst

Ares Management; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ares Insurance Solutions (AIS) is seeking an Analyst to support the Asset Analytics and Data Operations function, ensuring the quality and completeness of investment data used across investment management and forecasting processes.

The role involves investigating data anomalies, coordinating with Finance, Accounting, and Technology teams, and contributing to FP&A inputs, data governance, and model inputs for projections.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the quality, accuracy, and completeness of investment data across asset classes (public fixed income, structured products, private credit, mortgages, alt investments).
• Perform daily, monthly, and quarter-end reconciliations across investment accounting systems, portfolio management platforms, custodians, data warehouses, and analytical apps.
• Investigate and resolve reconciliation breaks involving positions, market values, book values, cash balances, accrued interest, investment income, ratings, security master attributes, and cash flows.
• Analyze data anomalies and reconciliation exceptions across sources and determine root causes (source feeds, accounting treatment, transformations, systems, timing, processes).
• Partner with Investment Operations, Accounting, Technology, and external providers to investigate and resolve data issues and validate remediation.
• Maintain reconciliation inventories, exception logs, and support docs to ensure transparency and auditability of the resolution process.
• Ensure data consistency across upstream/downstream systems supporting investment management, actuarial modeling, FP&A, regulatory and management reporting.
• Assist in establishing data quality controls, exception monitoring, and workflows to identify anomalies before impacting business processes.
• Support data validation for new security onboarding, portfolio transfers, acquisitions, system implementations, and data migration projects.

Job description

Ares Insurance Solutions (AIS) is seeking an Analyst to support the Asset Analytics and Data Operations function, ensuring the quality and completeness of investment data used across investment management and forecasting processes.

The role involves investigating data anomalies, coordinating with Finance, Accounting, and Technology teams, and contributing to FP&A inputs, data governance, and model inputs for projections.