Data Analyst, Transaction Management

Pacific Investment Management Company LLC
Newport Beach, United States of America
16 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 93K

Job location

Newport Beach, United States of America

Tech stack

Microsoft Excel
Data analysis
Python
SQL Databases
Strategies of Testing
Trade Promotion Management
Transaction Data
Transaction Processing (Computing)

Job description

We are seeking a detailoriented Transaction Management Data Analyst & Controls professional to support the firm's global transaction management transformation. This role focuses on data analysis, reconciliation frameworks, and certification criteria used to validate transaction accuracy, lifecycle completeness, and migration readiness as trade processing workflows move from legacy to strategic platforms.

The analyst serves as a critical qualitycontrol checkpoint, ensuring transaction data is complete, accurate, and productionready before downstream consumers-including accounting, position management, performance, and risk-are migrated or reliant on new workflows., * Design and execute endtoend reconciliation frameworks to compare transaction lifecycle data across legacy and target platforms, including trade capture, confirmation, and settlement states.

  • Define and maintain certification criteria and acceptance thresholds to validate transaction completeness and accuracy across asset classes, regions, and booking entities.
  • Perform detailed rootcause analysis on transaction breaks, mismatches, and lifecycle discrepancies, distinguishing among system behavior differences, control gaps, timing issues, and data quality failures.
  • Develop and maintain controls, exception reporting, and monitoring dashboards to support continuous validation throughout migration and stabilization periods.
  • Partner closely with the Transaction Management transformation lead, Technology, Accounting, and Operations teams to document and remediate upstream data and workflow issues.
  • Support testing cycles (UAT, parallel runs, migration rehearsals) by validating transaction logic, lifecycle progression, and reconciliation outcomes.
  • Prepare clear, evidencebased certification and signoff materials for senior stakeholders, audit teams, and migration governance forums.
  • Monitor transactionrelated exceptions during test and migration phases, escalating material issues and driving resolution within defined SLAs.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in trade management, transaction processing, investment data reconciliation, or operational controls within asset management, investment banking, or prime brokerage environments.
  • Strong analytical skills with handson experience performing transactionlevel reconciliations across multiple systems and asset classes.
  • Solid understanding of trade lifecycle events, including allocations, confirmations, settlements, amendments, resets, novations, and FX impacts.
  • Familiarity with migration certification, UAT methodologies, and parallel testing for trade or middleoffice platforms.
  • Proficiency with data analysis tools (e.g., Python, SQL, Excel) and experience developing exception reports or reconciliation dashboards.
  • Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce auditready documentation and clear certification summaries for senior stakeholders.

Benefits & conditions

PIMCO follows a total compensation approach when rewarding employees which includes a base salary and a discretionary bonus. Base salary is the fixed component of compensation that is determined by core job responsibilities, relevant experience, internal level, and market factors. The discretionary bonus is used to award performance and therefore is determined by company, business, team, and individual performance.

Salary Range: $ 87,000.00 - $ 93,000.00

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement

PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other basis such as medical condition, or marital status under applicable laws.

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About the company

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients' capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world's largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns. Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.

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