We are global private markets specialists delivering tailored investment solutions, advisory services, and impactful, data driven insights to the world’s investors. Leveraging the power of our platform and our peerless intelligence across sectors, strategies, and geographies, we help identify the advantages and the answers our clients need to succeed.
Position Overview
The Junior Analyst will be based in Baltimore and will support StepStone’s Portfolio Analytics and Reporting (‘SPAR’) Department with a focus in data governance and client service reporting for the venture capital asset class. The Junior Analyst will enforce data integrity best practices and maintain the appropriate infrastructure for data extraction, transformation, and loading (“ETL”) across two of StepStone’s proprietary applications. This role will also support the venture capital group in quarterly reporting for internal and external stakeholders. This will be a Full-time (40 hours per week) 16-week paid opportunity with a possibility to extend for additional 16-week terms or transition to a permanent role.
Essential Job Functions:
- Work closely with the venture capital SPAR team to coordinate the various aspects of the ETL process
- Develop a deep understanding of both reporting applications and perform tasks such as creating new records, running data integrity checks, and maintaining a reliable mapping of records across systems
- Assist with the quarterly performance reporting process
- Leverage data to prepare reports in response to internal and external inquiries\
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Investor Relations, and Marketing Teams to prepare special reporting for marketing materials and ad-hoc limited partner requests
- Execute multiple large-scale periodic data uploads in an accurate and timely manner
- Run periodic data integrity checks to ensure there are no discrepancies across systems
- Produce periodic progress reports of various KPIs including new records created, status of data uploads, gaps in record mapping, and others
- Other duties as required to ensure data records are complete and mapped across systems
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics or Accounting related field
- Demonstrated record of academic success
- Experience in financial services; Private Markets experience preferred
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Extremely strong attention to detail to maintain data integrity
- A highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work both independently and within a team context
- Ability to operate in a demanding and fast-paced environment and balance multiple tasks
- Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Intermediate Excel knowledge including pivot tables and lookup functions
- Familiarity with Database & Data Visualization solutions
- Experience in SQL and/or Python a plus
Salary is $25 per hour
About us
Working out of 26 offices in 15 countries, StepStone has a truly global viewpoint. As people are our biggest asset, we offer resources to help our employees reach their full potential. Our principles are based on integrity, transparency, respect and creativity, which together define how we do business.
Join us
When you choose to work at StepStone, you'll find a group of professionals who are passionate about anticipating changes, solving problems and working together to make it all happen. Our integrated global team shares insights into how managers think and operate, as well as how they might perform.
StepStone offers a competitive compensation package including salary and incentive compensation for all full time hires, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits which include comprehensive healthcare, strong retirement plan, a mental health well-being program, paid time off, student loan repayment program for our US office locations, and several wellness initiatives.
Disclaimer / Policy Statements
At StepStone, diversity, equity and inclusion are an integral part of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees and allows them to be heard, regardless of title or tenure. Our organizational community features multiple Employment Resource Groups representing our dedication to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, StepStone does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
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StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions and advisory and data services to our clients. StepStone’s clients include some of the world’s largest public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies, as well as prominent endowments, foundations, family offices and private wealth clients, which include high-net-worth and mass affluent individuals.StepStone partners with its clients to develop and build private markets portfolios designed to meet their specific objectives across the private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate asset classes.
