NM Capital - Investment Data Analyst

Northwestern Mutual; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 76,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedules

Concierge service

Comprehensive benefits

Employee resource groups

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual is seeking a data analytics professional to support its investment transaction lifecycle in Milwaukee. The role emphasizes data management, performance measurement, and reporting to clients, with emphasis on accuracy and auditable results.

You will build Power BI dashboards, develop quantitative analyses, and collaborate with investment, finance, and investor relations teams to answer ad-hoc questions and support due diligence and quarterly reporting.

Qualifications

• Degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience
• 2+ years in analytics, investment, or performance measurement
• Experience with investment performance measurement and portfolio analytics
• Detail-oriented with data reconciliation skills
• Ability to design scalable analytical solutions

Responsibilities

• Manage, transform, and integrate portfolio data for quantitative analysis
• Develop investment performance measurement frameworks
• Build Power BI dashboards for portfolio management
• Partner with investment, finance, and IR for due diligence and reporting
• Document methodologies and data standards
• Assist users with troubleshooting eFront and data best practices

Skills

Python

Power BI

Snowflake

dbt

Excel

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Finance/ Economics/ Statistics/ Data Science/ CS/ Eng

Tools

Power BI

Snowflake

dbt

Python

Job description

About The Job

• This role will focus on the data associated with NMC’s investment transaction lifecycle; including deal sourcing, due diligence, valuation, portfolio monitoring, portfolio performance, and reporting to clients.
• Manage, transform, and integrate portfolio and benchmark data to support advanced quantitative analysis, ensuring information is accurate, auditable, and analytically robust.
• Develop and maintain investment performance measurement frameworks, including returns, benchmarks, attribution, and performance drivers at the asset, strategy, and portfolio level.
• Design and deliver custom analyses and models to answer ad‑hoc investment, portfolio management, and investor questions.
• Identify, define, and refine key investment metrics and analytical views that inform investment decisions and support positive business outcomes.
• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards that combine quantitative outputs and visual storytelling to support portfolio management and senior leadership.
• Partner with investment, finance, and investor relations teams to support due diligence, investor requests, marketing materials, and quarterly performance reporting.
• Engage users with analytically rigorous tools and datasets, creating a virtuous cycle where insights drive adoption and improved data quality.
• Configure eFront and assist users with troubleshooting and best practices.
• Contribute to the design and maintenance of AI‑ready datasets by optimizing and enhancing datasets for consumption by investment professionals.
• Clearly document analytical methodologies, assumptions, data standards, and repeatable processes.

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Two or more years of experience in a quantitative, analytics, investment, or performance measurement‑focused role.
• Experience with investment performance measurement, return calculations, or portfolio analytics.
• Strong data‑driven decision‑making mindset with comfort working in ambiguous, unstructured problem spaces.
• Process‑oriented approach with the ability to design scalable, repeatable analytical solutions.
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to challenge assumptions, methodologies, and existing analytical approaches.
• High attention to detail and a strong instinct to reconcile, validate, and pressure‑test data and results.
• Experience with Snowflake, Python, dbt, and PowerBI preferred.
• Strong proficiency in Python for data analysis, including pandas, numpy, and analytical workflows.
• Experience building custom investment analyses, performance calculations, and repeatable analytical pipelines.
• Proficiency in Power BI, including data modeling and integrating quantitative outputs into dashboards.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including modeling and validation of analytical results.
• Proficiency in Snowflake and dbt to query and build datasets.
• Ability to interpret, scrub, process, and clearly explain complex quantitative results to non‑technical stakeholders

Skills You Will Have

• Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
• Financial Market Monitoring: Consistently tracks and analyzes financial market data and news, evaluates trends and events that may impact investment portfolios or financial decisions, and makes informed decisions based on this information. Stays up to date on economic indicators, market news, and global events, and understands how they relate to investment opportunities and risks.
• Industry Knowledge: Demonstrates extensive knowledge of common practices, regulatory considerations, market trends and the competitive landscape within a particular industry / sector to better understand and address unique client requirements, challenges, and context.
• Risk Evaluation: Assesses the significance of identified risks, makes judgments about the significance of the risk in relation to the organization's objectives and assesses whether the risk is acceptable or not. Considers factors such as the organization's risk appetite, risk tolerance, and risk management resources to help decision-makers determine which risks require further action and which can be accepted or tolerated.

Compensation Range

Pay Range - Start

$75,600.00

Pay Range - End

$113,400.00

Structure 110

Geographic Specific Pay Structure

$83,200.00 USD - $124,800.00 USD

Structure 115

$86,960.00 USD - $130,440.00 USD

We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click learn more.

Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do.

Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.

Skills

• Risk Evaluation (NM), Industry Knowledge (NM), Financial Market Monitoring (NM), Attention to Detail (NM), Adaptive Communication (NM)

FIND YOUR FUTURE

We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first‑class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.

• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups