The Role
This role will sit within the Product Data team, reporting into the Head of Product Data Solutions. The team consists of fixed income data experts whose primary focus is to ensure that security and portfolio level analytics of the highest caliber and can be quickly and efficiently disseminated to investors across customized partitions and aggregations. The team’s objectives are to source critical data, improve data quality, rigorously and proactively research data errors in order to ensure their timely resolution, minimize inconsistent data sets, enhance transparency, automate recurring reporting deliverables, and improve firm wide consumption of fixed income data.
The Product Data Analyst serves as a key contributor to the production, validation, and delivery of fixed income portfolio analytics used across client reporting, marketing, consultant databases, and investment communications. The role combines fixed income expertise, data analysis, and process improvement to ensure portfolio analytics are accurate, scalable, and readily available to internal and external consumers. The successful candidate will proactively identify data issues, investigate root causes, implement solutions, and drive continuous improvements in data quality and reporting processes.
We’ll Trust You To
- Produce and deliver complex portfolio analytics and custom fixed income data aggregations for clients, consultants, and prospective investors.
- Partner with Product Specialists, Marketing, and Client Reporting teams to research portfolio characteristics, market trends, and investment outcomes supporting client communications and marketing materials.
- Design and implement scalable solutions to automate recurring analytics, reporting, and data delivery processes.
- Provide an ongoing evaluation of portfolio level aggregation methodologies to ensure analytics are fairly and accurately represented
- Ensure monthly production quality assurance of marketing data sets
- Produce, review, and quality assure various types of standard and custom client reporting
- Cross train with other team members to create expertise and learning opportunities across the Product Data & Information team
- Investigate data anomalies and exceptions, perform root-cause analysis, and partner with internal and external data providers to resolve issues.
- Evaluate the validity of exception rules and security level analytics
You'll Need To Have
- Advanced Excel skills required.
- Experience working with large datasets using SQL, Python, or similar analytical tools.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data validation skills.
- Ability to communicate complex fixed income concepts and analytics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong attention to detail with a demonstrated commitment to data quality.
- 3-7 years of experience in investment management, fixed income analytics, risk reporting, performance measurement, market data, or related functions.
- Strong understanding of fixed income instruments, portfolio analytics, and risk characteristics.
- Experience investigating data quality issues and improving data management processes.
- Experience working with large financial datasets and analytical platforms.
- Prior experience in portfolio analytics, risk management, performance measurement, investment operations, or market data functions preferred.
- Experience with securitized products, structured credit, or mortgage-backed securities is a plus.
- Bloomberg, FactSet, Aladdin, Yield Book, or similar financial systems experience is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree is required.
- Pursuit towards or completion of a financial industry designation (CFA, FRM, CIPM, CAIA, PRM) or Master’s degree preferred.
Why Lord Abbett?
Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.
- Principles-Based - We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
- Performance-Oriented - We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
- Purpose-Driven - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.
We have been ranked #1 in Barron’s Best Fund Families for 2024 and have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments for five consecutive years.
Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $120,000-$140,000 . Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.
Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance.
Benefits: Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett
Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicant’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.
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