Operations Analyst

Spectraforce Technologies
United States, Utah, Salt Lake City
Oct 30, 2024
Position Title: Operations Analyst Location: Salt Lake City, UT Duration: 5+ Months Job Description: The External Investing Group (XIG) Group provides investors with investment and advisory solutions, across leading hedge fund managers, private equity funds, real estate managers, and traditional long-only managers. The XIG Group manages globally diversified programs, targeted sector-specific strategies, customized portfolios, and a range of advisory services. Our investors access opportunities through new fund commitments, fund-of-fund investments, strategic partnerships, secondary-market investments, co-investments, and seed-capital investments. With over 400 professionals across eleven offices around the world, the XIG Group provides manager diligence, portfolio construction, risk management, and liquidity solutions to investors, drawing on clients' market insights and risk management expertise. We extend these capabilities to the world's leading sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, governments, financial institutions, endowments, foundations and family offices, for which we invest or advise on over (USD)400 billion. Global Reporting Analytics The XIG Global Reporting and Analytics (GRA) team is responsible for producing client and fund level reporting for hedge fund, private equity, and long-only manager asset classes. This includes data analysis and review of quarterly letters, underlying manager reports, monthly performance, and risk reports. Responsibilities and Qualifications Reporting responsibilities include data management and review, preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports, including quantitative and qualitative information related to performance, diversification, and portfolio holdings. The team works closely with the XIG investment and Platform Management teams. The team also works with other clients teams, including Client Service teams, Fund Accounting & Controllers, Technology, Legal and Compliance. Principle Responsibilities Produce reports that include the analysis, verification, and troubleshooting related to portfolio holdings, performance, new/realized investments, metadata, diversification, and commentary, etc. Review materials and reports generated by junior members of the team, for current and prospective clients Respond to requests from senior management, clients, and internal groups relating to funds, portfolio holdings, and portfolio performance Manage projects relating to new clients, managers, and mandates as well as lead initiatives focused on platform enhancement Publish and review client data on multiple platforms Basic Qualifications Ability to interpret financial statements used to verify client reporting materials Attention to detail and experience producing complex customized client materials with highest degree of accuracy Analytical background required to train and lead the analyst creating client materials Participation in client launch calls and coordination with other AIMS team to understand and manage terms of client engagements impacting client reporting Interface with performance experts on the XIG team, including regular interactions with senior management in both XIG and Asset Managment Operations Understanding of performance attribution and risk calculations in proprietary models used for client reporting Strong organizational skills to review a large volume of output within tight timeframes Candidate must be a team player, self-motivated and demonstrate a willingness to take on more responsibility Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required Advanced or highly proficient with Excel. Candidate is also expected to demonstrate adaptability to other software products