Data Management Analyst
MFS Investment Management
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- New grads and up to 2 years · Bachelor's degree
- Must know
- ValuationStakeholder managementAccountingExcel
- Nice to have
- Bloomberg
- Work
- On-site in Boston
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
- Stakeholder management49%Excel45%Accounting11%Valuation1%of 99 similar entry-level jobs posted in the US this week
- Listed
- Nov 9, 2026 · still open
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About the Role
The Data Management Analyst serves as a business-side analyst supporting security reference data and valuation activities. The individual will partner with stakeholders to ensure data quality, resolve issues, and enhance processes that support investment and operational needs. Under management oversight, the Data Management Analyst will coordinate with onshore and offshore resources to deliver accurate, timely, and consistent investment data services across multiple platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Create and maintain security master data for fixed income, equity, and derivative instruments.
- Validate security attributes using approved vendors and offering-document sources.
- Maintain market identifiers, classifications, ratings, terms, coupon schedules, maturity details, and accounting attributes.
- Perform daily data-quality controls and resolve exceptions affecting trading, accounting, valuation, and reporting.
- Partner with technology and other operational teams to resolve data issues.
- Coordinate workflows and handoffs with global team members, including offshore resources.
- Apply strong mathematical, analytical, and problem-solving skills with consistent attention to detail, with the ability to escalate to management as necessary.
- Provide periodic coverage through 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time to support valuation deadlines.
- Take on special projects and additional responsibilities as requested.
- Work to find processes that will enhance efficiencies within the team.
- Assist in creating new processes and resolve day-to-day issues by working with the manager.
- Create strong operating procedures while also training peers on new efficiencies that the team has taken over.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Proficiency with business applications and technology systems, including Microsoft Excel; ability to compare data from multiple sources, with database knowledge and macro-programming capability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or math-related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 0-2+ years of Financial Services industry or data quality experience.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, exercise sound judgment, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with consistent attention to detail.
- Strong written, oral, interpersonal, and partnership skills, with the ability to build productive working relationships across organizational levels and within a global team structure.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
Preferred Skills, Qualifications & Experience
- Experience with Bloomberg and/or other third-party applications is a plus.
- Experience with Eagle Investment Systems/Charles River Investment Management System.