Reference Data Analyst

Company Profile

Founded in 1977, GMO is a global investment manager committed to delivering superior long-term investment performance and advice to our clients. We offer investment strategies and solutions where we believe we are positioned to add the greatest value for our investors. These include multi-asset class, public equity, public credit, and liquid alternative offerings.

We manage approximately $68bn for a client base that includes many of the world’s most sophisticated institutions, financial intermediaries, and private clients. Industry-wide, we are well known for our focus on valuation-based investing, willingness to take bold positions when conditions warrant, and candid and academically rigorous thought leadership. Jeremy Grantham, GMO’s Co-Founder and Long-Term Investment Strategist, is renowned as an expert in identifying speculative investment bubbles and also as a leading climate investor and advocate.

GMO is privately owned and employs over 430 people worldwide. We are headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in Europe, Asia and Australia. Our company-wide culture emphasizes commitment to clients, intellectual curiosity, and open debate. We celebrate and respect our differences, while embracing and valuing what each of us brings to work, as we know that diverse teams in an inclusive, caring environment achieve higher engagement and better client results.

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We are looking for a Reference Data Analyst to join GMO’s Data Engineering and Operations team. The candidate will join our Technology group, within a team focused on the maintenance and validation of financial reference data in GMO’s internal systems. This person will work with data representations of investable securities in a wide range of asset classes, monitor existing data quality frameworks, build business requirements for new data processing, and ensure proper dataflow between firm wide systems and reports. The position exposes the candidate to GMO’s various investment and operational teams and offers a wide range of career path opportunities.

The ideal candidate will bring prior operational experience within an Asset Management firm and demonstrate a passion for technology with a strong interest in engaging with technical domains to drive innovation and efficiency.

The position will be based in Boston where GMO is currently operating in a hybrid work model, with the current expectation that this person will be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week and the balance of the week working either in the office or remotely (to be discussed with the candidate).

GMO is committed to the recruitment, employment, and promotion of all candidates equally, regardless of an individual's gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability (except where such disability is a bona fide occupational disqualification) or any other classification protected under federal, state or local law.

GMO will not offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity.

This is a reasonable, good faith estimate of the current salary range for this role.