<p>Mercer is seeking candidates for the following position based in the Mumbai office.<br /> </p><p><b>Senior Manager – </b><b>Investments (Data Management/Performance Measurement)</b></p><p><br /><b>What can you expect?</b></p><ul><li>An exciting opportunity to join one of Mercer’s largest and most rapidly growing business areas – Investment Solutions.</li><li>As part of our Global Data Team, the successful candidate will play a key role in the transformation of our data capabilities globally.</li><li>Mercer is one of the fastest growing investment solutions entities globally, and our client base has grown substantially over recent years with further growth to come.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>What is in it for you?</b></p><p>As a Marsh McLennan Company colleague, you will also receive additional benefits such as:</p><ul><li>A competitive salary</li><li>Employee friendly policies</li><li>Health care and insurance for you and your dependents</li><li>Healthy Work life balance</li><li>A great working environment</li><li>Flexible benefits packages to suit your needs and lifestyle.</li><li>Future career opportunities across a global organization</li></ul><p><b>We will count on you to:</b></p><ul><li>A solid understanding of the Capital Market Domain, including middle and back-office functions is required, knowledge of the front office is plus.</li><li>Ability to communicate complex issues in a simple and coherent manner.</li><li>Be the lead analyst for data projects related to investment performance.</li><li>Address issues that arise in the day-to-day production of investment performance data.</li><li>Provide expert level understanding of the data management, performance calculation and reporting capabilities of Mercer’s vendor applications.</li><li>Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to ensure that data is trusted and performance ready.</li><li>Provide deep domain expertise related to investment performance measurement and attribution.</li><li>Work with business teams to put together actionable requirements for development teams and collaborate closely with the technology team to deliver solutions.</li><li>Ability to perform data analysis, identify data challenges, and provide insights using domain knowledge to address these challenges in the short and long term.</li><li>Experience of the end-to-end investment performance measurement and attribution process. </li><li>Thorough understanding of the data sets needed for investment performance measurement and attribution.</li><li>Hands on experience with the data life cycle related to performance; from initial receipt of data, through ingestion, DQ and population/hydration of database/warehouse to the configuration of calculations and reports to communicate investment performance.</li><li>Deep understanding of the conceptual foundations of investment portfolio performance measurement, attribution, appraisal, and GIPS standards.</li><li>Strong technical skills - SQL in particular.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>What you need to have:</b></p><ul><li>Minimum 10-14 years of experience working in a team supporting relevant functions.</li><li>Understand & Process complex data sets so as to carry daily/periodic task along and for purposes of delivering/providing trusted data to Data Warehouse</li></ul><p></p><ul><li>Knowledge of Investment Management application modules such as Data warehouse, DATAMART, and reporting tools is essential.</li><li>Work on exception captured by placed quality checks and conducting RCA on the issue to maintain consistency of data on client holdings, transactions, Prices etc. </li><li>Familiarity with ETL tools for importing new data from external/internal sources is desirable.</li><li>Exposure to project management tools like Jira Kanban and Confluence is desirable.</li><li>Experience in creating test cases, including negative testing and regression testing, is a plus.</li><li>Familiarity with unit funds/NAVs and understanding of fund structure, share classes, asset classes, etc., would be beneficial.</li><li>Pro-active & self-learner and carries right attitude towards challenges to bring or suggest Process Improvement Idea.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>What makes you stand out?</b></p><ul><li>Knowledge and experience gained in implementing financial data solutions in particular Eagle and FactSet.</li><li>Industry qualifications - CFA or CIPM.</li><li>Willingness to support and mentor colleagues.</li><li>Understanding of Data Management routines & procedures.</li><li>Understanding of the financial services industry, specifically Investment Accounting.</li><li>Understanding of the software product management lifecycle and/or investment performance measurement and analysis.</li><li>Experience of business process improvement in asset management – for example, performing data investigations to determine root cause of data quality issues.</li><li>Expertise and demonstrated experience of Eagle Pace or similar applications.</li><li>Strong SQL skills and a basic understanding of relational models are highly beneficial.</li><li>Proficiency in Advance Excel, Word, PowerPoint is preferred. Experience with Visio and process flow mapping is desired.</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.mercer.com/" target="_blank">Mercer</a> believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being. Mercer’s more than 20,000 employees are based in 43 countries and the firm operates in over 130 countries. Mercer is a business of <a href="https://www.marshmclennan.com/" target="_blank">Marsh McLennan</a>(NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with more than 85,000 colleagues and annual revenue of over $23 billion. Through its market-leading businesses including <a href="https://www.marsh.com/" target="_blank">Marsh</a>, <a href="https://www.guycarp.com/" target="_blank">Guy Carpenter</a>and <a href="https://www.oliverwyman.com/" target="_blank">Oliver Wyman</a>, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment. For more information, visit <a href="https://www.mercer.com/" target="_blank">mercer.com</a>. Follow Mercer on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/mercer" target="_blank">X</a>.</p><p>Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, caste, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.</p><p>Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.</p><p></p>