Your Role
In your role as a Data Specialist, you will be squarely focused on ensuring that new data from the global financial markets and other points of interest is successfully added to AQR’s research pipeline. Your work will be instrumental in kicking off the research lifecycle, providing your colleagues with the raw information they need to generate the keen economic insights that underpin our investment success.
Responsibilities include:
- Direct oversight of the daily data load and validation process
- Potential to expand your technical expertise and gain more experience and training in Python, SQL and machine learning
- Monitor and manage the daily process
- Monitor arrival and economic validity of new data
- Interact with data loading and checking systems both programmatically and via GUI
- Assess data validation exceptions
- Research and interpret the effect of economic and/or corporate events on data related to: markets, financial instruments, economic indicators, financial analysis measures, etc.
- Conclude whether flagged values must be approved or represent true errors that require follow up
What You Bring
- Knowledge of or experience in some of the following:
- SQL, Python
- Economic events and related indicators
- Financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, derivatives, futures
- Financial statement analysis and corporate finance
- Portfolio management (factor investing)
- Statistical measures and analysis
- Data validation, cleansing, normalization, ETL
Who You Are
- Organized and able to work under daily deadlines
- Able to prioritize and optimize own workload as a function of unexpected events and existing parallel/serial workflows
- Ability to balance/optimize finding own solutions and asking for help
- Good communicator who is able to be persistent and effective in following up on issues that block the process which require input from others in order to be solved.
We believe that the next innovation to transform our business could come from anyone at AQR. Expect to be recognized not only for your diligence and hard work today, but for your vision for tomorrow. We are mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and artists, passionate about advancing financial research and pushing the limits of today’s technology.
AQR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EEO/VET/DISABILITY
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