Project Description:

This role sits within a small team (5) supporting Public Markets activities within a Singapore sovereign fund.
The role is responsible for driving and coordinating delivery of Public Markets data, reporting and analytics initiatives, working closely with front office, middle office, investment operations and technology/data teams.
The successful candidate will combine strong project management and stakeholder management capabilities with practical understanding of Public/Private Markets and investment data. The role requires the ability to take initiatives from problem definition and requirements through planning, execution, testing, implementation and BAU transition.

Responsibilities:

Lead and coordinate Public/Private Markets data, reporting and analytics projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring clear scope, milestones, dependencies, deliverables and ownership.
Work with front and middle-office stakeholders to understand business problems, define project objectives and translate investment requirements into actionable project deliverables.
Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, milestones, logs, dependencies and delivery tracking, proactively identifying risks and driving resolution.
Coordinate across business, data, technology and operations teams to ensure requirements, data dependencies, development, testing and implementation activities remain aligned.
Facilitate requirements gathering, prioritisation and scope management, ensuring project outcomes remain aligned with business priorities and agreed objectives.
Drive UAT, issue resolution and implementation readiness, coordinating business validation and ensuring identified defects or data issues are appropriately tracked through to closure.
Provide regular project status reporting and stakeholder updates, highlighting progress, key decisions, risks, issues, dependencies and areas requiring escalation.
Apply Public/Private Markets domain knowledge to challenge requirements, identify gaps and validate whether proposed solutions and data outputs are consistent with investment and operational processes.
Support BAU transition and post-implementation stabilisation, ensuring delivered solutions have appropriate documentation, controls, ownership and support processes.
Where required, remain hands-on in data analysis and SQL-based investigation to support project delivery, troubleshoot issues and validate investment data and reporting outcomes.

Mandatory Skills Description:

6–8 years (indicative) of relevant experience in:
Project management / delivery roles within asset management, investment management, banking or financial services OR business/data analyst roles with significant responsibility for delivering investment, portfolio or data-related projects.
Demonstrated experience in end-to-end project delivery, including project planning, stakeholder management, requirements, dependencies, risk/issues management, UAT, implementation and BAU transition.
Strong business analysis, project management and stakeholder management capabilities with practical understanding of Public Markets and investment data
Understanding of investment data concepts such as positions, transactions, P&L, exposures and portfolio data, sufficient to effectively manage projects involving investment data and reporting.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across front office, middle office, operations, technology and data teams and drive alignment across different stakeholder groups.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, including the ability to understand data issues, assess root causes and drive issues to resolution.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and fast-moving environments, taking ownership of deliverables and driving progress with limited guidance.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to present project status, articulate risks and dependencies, facilitate decisions and communicate complex investment/data topics to different audiences.
Working knowledge of SQL sufficient to independently investigate data issues, validate requirements and support project delivery.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

Experience delivering Public Markets portfolio monitoring, investment reporting, data platform or analytics projects.
Experience working with Tableau or similar BI tools.
Experience with Snowflake or other data platforms / analytical data layers.
Experience managing projects using JIRA, Confluence or similar project delivery tools.
Experience with data migration, data quality, reconciliation, UAT and implementation activities.
Experience working in Agile / iterative delivery environments.

Quantitative Business analyst (strong in SQL / Python / BI)