Associate/avp, Data Solutions

Location:
Singapore, SG

Job Function: Investment Services Private Markets & Finance

**Job Type**: Permanent

Req ID: 14721

**Investment Services Private Market and Finance Department**

The Investment Services Private Market and Finance Department is responsible for investment services for the private market and financial management across the GIC group. It is responsible for providing operations and reporting support to the private market business of GIC as well as budgeting, accounting, payment processing, cash management, tax and financial & management reporting services to all departments, corporate management companies and the global offices of the GIC group. It is involved in deal structuring and closing, transaction processing, administration and accounting of investment holding companies, review of financial controls for asset operations, cash & securities reconciliation, valuation, and financial reporting for assets under management, and external debt financing.

**Data Solutions & Analytics**

Data Solutions & Analytics’ (DSA) vision is to unlock the value of Private Market’s information assets and make it readily available to support decision-making and informed action. We provide best-in-class data stewardship, sourcing, ingestion, analytics, and governance across the private market asset classes in GIC. Partnering with investment, technology, and investment services groups, it leads the transformational sourcing, designing, build and use of the next generation of data management capabilities and infrastructure for GIC’s Private Market business.

We are hiring an Associate/Assistant Vice President for DSA, to push our business agenda and implement transformational projects in data solutions and management.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Manage data operations processes to bring in asset-level data on GIC’s private markets investments into the GIC environment, including handling of operational and non-routine queries/requests from business users and external information providers
- Design, develop and implement sustainable processes and controls to ensure consistent high standards of data quality and governance
- Review existing processes and implement improvements to achieve robust ways of processing data and advancement in productivity
- Investigate and resolve data exceptions and data quality issues. Identify roadblocks in achieving high standards of data quality and design solutions to enable better outcomes
- Implement data projects that improve the efficiency of data operations, including but not limited to data collection outsourcing and working with business to optimize data collection processes

**Requirements**:

- At least 3 years of relevant experience in data solutioning and management, project management and process re-engineering
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & Engineering, Finance or equivalent
- Exposure to financial services industries and or data outsourcing projects, specifically private markets is a huge bonus
- Possess knowledge and strong passion in data governance and management
- Ability to engage with business to understand business needs and translating them into data solutions
- Strong communication and people engagement skills to be able to interact internally within team and externally across functions
- Possess strong learning agility, self-driven, pro-active, and great sense of purpose to relook on existing data usage
- Comfortable in attaining new skills through use of new technology tools and systems
- Strong analytical skills and ability to work with large volume of data

**Our PRIME Values**
**Our PRIME Values**
GIC is a values driven organization. GIC’s PRIME Values act as our compass, enabling us to fulfil our fundamental purpose and objectives. It is the foundational bedrock which governs our behaviors, our decision making, and our focus. It informs both our long-term strategy as a firm, and the way we relate to our Client, business partners and employees. PRIME stands for Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent