Job Description

The Opportunity

We are seeking an Investment Compliance Data Specialist to support investment compliance platform implementations and transformation initiatives across leading solutions including Charles River Development (CRD), Aladdin, Bloomberg, and related investment management platforms.

This role focuses on ensuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the data that drives investment compliance monitoring and reporting. The successful candidate will work closely with compliance, operations, portfolio management, and technology teams to validate data requirements, support system integrations, troubleshoot compliance-related data issues, and enable successful implementation of compliance monitoring capabilities across client portfolios and investment strategies.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of investment management data, compliance processes, and platform implementations, with experience supporting complex transformations involving security master, benchmark, issuer, account, and portfolio data.

Key Responsibilities

• Support investment compliance platform implementations, upgrades, and transformation initiatives by validating data requirements and compliance monitoring inputs.
• Analyze and validate security master, issuer, benchmark, account, portfolio, and reference data utilized by compliance monitoring platforms.
• Perform SQL-based analysis to investigate data quality issues, validate business requirements, and support implementation testing activities.
• Support data mapping, conversion, and integration efforts across compliance, portfolio management, accounting, OMS, EMS, and market data platforms.
• Conduct root cause analysis of compliance exceptions, monitoring discrepancies, and implementation defects to identify data-related drivers and corrective actions.
• Partner with compliance, operations, portfolio management, and technology stakeholders to ensure data supports intended compliance outcomes.
• Support System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), parallel testing, and production readiness activities.
• Validate complex investment data domains including positions, classifications, benchmark constituents, issuer hierarchies, look-through holdings, analytics, and derivative exposures.
• Assist in documenting data requirements, mapping specifications, reconciliation procedures, testing results, and implementation decisions.
• Support account onboarding, portfolio migrations, and compliance framework enhancements as part of broader implementation programs.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience supporting investment management, investment compliance, reference data, or compliance technology implementations.
• Strong SQL skills with experience analyzing and validating complex investment data sets.
• Experience working with investment data domains including securities, issuers, benchmarks, accounts, positions, classifications, and portfolio analytics.
• Understanding of how investment data supports pre-trade and post-trade compliance monitoring processes.
• Experience participating in implementation projects, platform migrations, onboarding initiatives, or compliance technology transformations.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Charles River Development (CRD), Aladdin, Bloomberg AIM, Sentinel, or related investment management platforms.
• Familiarity with compliance monitoring frameworks and investment guideline oversight.
• Experience supporting data integration, reconciliation, testing, and implementation validation activities.
• Knowledge of equity, fixed income, derivatives, and multi-asset investment products.
• Understanding of benchmark, issuer hierarchy, security classification, and look-through data concepts.

What We Look For

• Ability to bridge business requirements and technical implementation activities.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and quality.
• Ability to analyze complex issues spanning compliance, data, and technology domains.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced implementation environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical findings to business and compliance audiences.