Client Reporting Senior Data Analyst

Company Description:
As a leading global investment management firm, AB fosters diverse perspectives and embraces innovation to help our clients navigate the uncertainty of capital markets. Through high-quality research and diversified investment services, we serve institutions, individuals and private wealth clients in major markets worldwide. Our ambition is simple: to be our clients’ most valued asset-management partner.
With over 4,400 employees across 51 locations in 25 countries, our people are our advantage. We foster a culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration to create an environment where everyone can thrive and do their best work. Whether you're producing thought-provoking research, identifying compelling investment opportunities, infusing new technologies into our business or providing thoughtful advice to clients, we’re looking for unique voices to help lead us forward. If you’re ready to challenge your limits and build your future, join us.
Ops Group Description:
The Institutional Client Reporting Team is responsible for the production of monthly, quarterly, annual and ad-hoc accounting and investment reports for institutional and mutual fund clients. These reports cover the full range of the firm’s investment capabilities, including Fixed Income, Equity, Index / Enhanced, as well as Alternative Investments, Blend, Multi-Asset strategies, with an expanding range of derivative content.
There are extensive interactions and exposure to many functions of the AB business, notably Client Relationship Management, the Portfolio Management Team, Global Product Development team along with Operations and Information Technology.
In addition to the production support, the team also works on projects related to new report development and automation.
Ops Job Description:
We are seeking a Client Reporting Analyst to join our Client Reporting Department within the Institutional Investment Management Operations Team located in Pune, India. People of color, women, and LGBTQ people are encouraged to apply. AB does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation. Gender identity, military or veteran status or any other basis that is prohibited by applicable law. AB’s policies, as well as practices, seek to ensure that employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants, based solely on job-related criteria.
Describe the role:
The Client Reporting Analyst is a key role for our firm by servicing the reporting needs of institutional and mutual fund clients. A large focus of responsibility is sending out monthly and quarterly reporting packages to clients. In supporting this mandate, the Client Reporting Team is also responsible for ensuring data integrity between accounting and reporting platforms along with fixed income portfolio analytics.
Describe the applications and business or enterprise functions the role supports:
The Client Reporting Analyst supports mostly the mutual fund business but does offer some support to the institutional and private client businesses. This is done through understanding and sourcing the data used to complete client reports.
The key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
 Preparing and reviewing custom reports on a monthly, quarterly or ad-hoc basis.
 Understanding the sources of data for mutual funds and complying with material, non-public rules around information sharing.
 Data analysis and quality control in regards to projects and department enhancements.
 Respond to ad-hoc requests, issue resolution and provide answers to advisor/associate inquiries.
 Updating process documents.
 Client Reporting projects, including the Vermilion reporting tool implementation.
What makes this role unique or interesting (if applicable)?
This is an opportunity to join and support a business unit that has direct client impact which is looking to implement new technology (Vermilion Reporting software) to become more efficient while mitigating risk as business demands continue to grow. The strategic plan for the reporting group includes transitioning to and developing a new client reporting platform while retiring current reporting applications and tools.
What is the professional development value of this role, i.e. what learning and professional growth does the role offer the candidate?
The analyst will learn about AB’s equity and fixed income portfolio analytics and characteristics for client reports along with advanced performance attribution. The analyst will have hands-on experience on a variety of fixed income, equity and derivative securities and products.
The analyst will be able to improve their time management skills and gain more exposure working within a team. The analyst will gain exposure to the fixed income business as the clients investing in our fixed income products require the most complicated reporting support. They will work on their time management skills as they will need to work on and manage multiple tasks/projects/deliverables at one time.
The analyst will be able to improve their communication skills as they will have frequent contact with other groups within the firm to provide information and resolve issues. They will be able to work on communicating effectively to complete tasks.
Job Qualifications (The ideal candidate should have the following):
Qualifications, Experience, Education:
 4 year undergraduate degree preferably in business related discipline
 2 years of work experience in a function that has some related financial analysis
 Prefer some experience in data management areas
 Previous internships working in financial services
Skills:
 Knowledge of multiple asset classes and how they can be used in portfolios
 Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically MS Excel tools and functions
 Communicate effectively, work well in a team setting, and be able to effectively handle changes with a positive outlook.