Overview
The D. E. Shaw group seeks a senior associate with exceptional commercial and analytical skills to join its Management Reporting team within Financial Operations. The team is responsible for delivering high-impact analysis and executive-ready insights to the firm’s senior leadership, with a particular focus on compensation and management company economics. This role offers the opportunity to shape the team’s analytical capabilities and influence how senior leadership evaluates business-related compensation decisions.
What You'll Do Day-to-day
- Partner closely with senior leadership on high-priority, bespoke analyses tied to compensation, management company economics, and other commercial and strategic questions relevant to senior leadership decision-making.
- Apply keen commercial judgment to frame issues, structure analyses, and interpret results in a decision-useful way, navigating ambiguity and presenting findings in a clear, leadership-appropriate format.
- Help scale the team’s capability to support senior leadership by identifying gaps, strengthening the analytical approach, and proactively expanding the team’s impact.
- Lead team initiatives in generative AI integration, process improvement, technology adoption, and automation.
Who We're Looking For
- Seven to ten years of experience in management company finance, compensation consulting, or internal strategy roles at large alternative asset managers.
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior decision-makers through reframing analyses and providing new perspectives on complex problems.
- Proven track record of producing rigorous analysis with imperfect or incomplete data, with experience defining scope in ambiguous situations and building or expanding team capabilities to address emerging needs.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize and present complex findings for senior audiences.
- The expected annual base salary for this position is $190,000 to $230,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.
