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Investment Data Analyst (Contract) | W2 ONLY
Contract Type: W2 Contract
Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid)
Industry: Investment Management
Employment Type: W2 Only
Strictly No C2C Arrangements
Apollo Solutions is partnered with an investment management firm who are looking for an experienced Data Analyst to support its investment data platform and front-office data operations.
This role is ideal for someone who understands how high-quality investment data underpins portfolio management, research, and trading decisions.
You'll play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of critical investment datasets while working closely with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, data engineering, and technology teams.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and resolve investment data issues across reference data, market data, pricing, fundamentals, and corporate actions.
- Analyse and validate complex corporate actions, ensuring downstream investment systems remain accurate.
- Investigate data discrepancies, perform reconciliations, and determine business impact.
- Support security master data, instrument identifiers, and cross-reference mappings across multiple data sources.
- Build and maintain investment-ready datasets used by research and portfolio management teams.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve data quality controls, validation rules, and monitoring processes.
- Work with multiple financial market data providers to compare, validate, and enrich investment datasets.
- Identify recurring data issues and contribute to long-term process improvements.
- Collaborate with investment professionals to ensure data definitions align with real-world investment workflows.
Experience
- Experience working with investment data within an institutional asset manager, hedge fund, asset owner, or quantitative investment environment.
- Strong understanding of security reference data and identifiers such as ISIN, SEDOL, CUSIP, or FIGI.
- Hands-on experience managing or analysing corporate actions.
- Professional experience using SQL and Python for data analysis and validation.
- Familiarity with leading financial data vendors such as Bloomberg, FactSet, Capital IQ, MSCI, ICE, CRSP, Worldscope, IBES, or similar platforms.
- Experience developing or supporting data quality, reconciliation, or monitoring processes.
- Understanding of investment workflows and how data supports portfolio management, research, or quantitative investing.
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to investigate and resolve complex data issues.
- Strong communication skills and experience working across business and technology teams.
- Experience supporting systematic or quantitative investment strategies.
- Exposure to modern data platforms and orchestration tools.
- Knowledge of portfolio analytics, factor data, or investment research processes.
If you have a passion for investment data and enjoy solving complex data challenges in a fast-paced investment environment, please apply with an updated resume.