Business Analyst - Data Capture, Accounting & Operations

Job Description

Job Description

Business Analyst – Data Capture, Data Management, Accounting & Operations

Firm: $20bn Alternative Investment Firm

Location: Greenwich, CT (on-site)

Overview

Seeking a Business Analyst to enhance the firm’s data-capture, data-management, accounting, and operational workflows. This role will partner closely with investment teams, portfolio operations, accounting, valuation, and risk management to build scalable processes that ensure accurate and timely information across global platform. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, analytical, and comfortable working in a fast-paced private equity and credit environment where precise data is essential for decision-making, reporting, and

value creation.

Key Responsibilities

Data Capture & Process Design

 Map, document, and assess data flows across investment teams, accounting, operations, and portfolio oversight functions.

 Develop standardized processes for capturing deal pipeline information, position-level investment data, loan/credit documentation, financial reporting packages, and operational KPIs.

 Implement automated or semi-automated data ingestion from portfolio companies, third- party administrators, data vendors, and internal systems.

 Partner with technology and external providers to build scalable templates and workflows for recurring data submissions and quality checks.

Data Management, Governance & Integrity

 Maintain firm-wide data definitions, business rules, and metadata for investment, fund, and portfolio operational data.

 Establish and uphold data-governance standards across systems such as CRM, portfolio-monitoring tools, data warehouses, accounting systems, and valuation models.

 Collaborate with accounting and valuation teams to ensure alignment between investment data, financial records, GAAP reporting, fair-value measurements, and internal dashboards.

 Perform ongoing data-quality monitoring and reconciliation between key systems (e.g., accounting vs. portfolio monitoring vs. investment team models).

Support for Investment, Accounting & Operations Investment / Deal Team Support

 Improve capture and tracking of investment pipeline, IC materials, diligence data, underwriting assumptions, and post-close performance metrics.

 Enhance data availability for valuation processes, scenario analyses, covenant tracking, risk flags, and quarterly review cycles.

 Ensure investment teams have consistent, accurate data for ongoing ownership oversight.

Accounting; Valuation Support

 Work closely with accounting teams to streamline the flow of position-level data, transaction activity, and valuation inputs into accounting and reporting systems.

 Support the integration of financial statement data from portfolio companies for monthly/quarterly close processes.

 Help ensure proper reconciliation between investment team models, valuation templates, and accounting systems.

 Assist with improving processes related to cash movements, capital account activity,P&L allocation, and fair value adjustments.

Operations Portfolio Monitoring

 Enhance operational data collection from portfolio companies, including liquidity metrics, operational KPIs, restructuring materials, and turnaround progress tracking.

 Support operations teams with process automation for information intake, dashboarding, and recurring reporting cycles.

 Ensure reliable data for performance monitoring, operational reviews, and value-creation initiatives.

 Facilitate integration between operations data, accounting systems, risk tools, and investment dashboards.

Reporting, Analytics & Insights

 Partner with BI teams to build dashboards and analytical tools used by senior leadership, investment professionals, and operations teams.

 Provide insights from operational, accounting, and investment data to support decision- making and identify opportunities for efficiency or value enhancement.

 Ensure that reporting aligns with investment, operational, and fund-performance frameworks, including IRR, MOIC, cash flows, value bridges, and credit metrics.