Burgiss is a global, market-leading provider of data and analytics solutions for investors. With over 30 years of expertise in alternative investments, we offer unrivaled data, analytics, and transparency that enable asset owners, asset managers, and financial intermediaries to evaluate and manage complex portfolios. Burgiss’ solutions serve 1,000+ clients...
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About the Role
In this role you will be responsible for the identification, aggregation and reporting of private equity fund transactional data as well as private company characteristics and financial statement metrics. Data is compiled through the examination and analysis of fund manager reporting and other resources. This information helps our institutional asset owner clients better understand their portfolio composition as well as measure investment performance and risk.
This is a great opportunity to join a vibrant, fast growing and dynamic Data Operations Team that helps set the gold standard for research quality private capital data.
Key Responsibilities
- Detailed review and analysis of private capital fund financial reporting and online resources to accurately identify relevant fund and company level financial data
- Capture, enhance and maintain large volumes of financial data
- Develop an in-depth understanding of fund valuations, capital flows, performance reporting methodologies, financial statement metrics and industry classification standards
- Perform audits and other quality control functions for the content set
- Comply with all data policies, standards and processes
Skills & Attributes
- Detail oriented, analytical and inquisitive mindset
- Strong numerical ability and excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
- Highly organized and self-disciplined
- High levels of focus and the ability to work with and accurately process large volumes of financial data
- Positive attitude and desire to learn
Experience & Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Commerce) - Majors in Finance, Accounting, Business Management & Information System preferred
- 1-3 years of relevant work experience preferred
- Familiarity with financial markets, accounting practices and private capital
- Working knowledge of MS Excel. Experience with database applications advantageous.
- A suitable work from home setup, in the form of a reliable internet service and a dedicated, properly equipped workspace.
Life at Burgiss
At Burgiss, you can expect:
- Competitive salary
- Medical aid
- Pension enrolment
- Group risk benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Fun social and engagement calendar
- Corporate socially responsible employer
- Possibility of working flexibly from home and office (after probation)
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About the Role
The primary responsibility of this position is to request missing financials from General Partners, making use of both verbal and written communication mediums while creating working relationships with Managers. Additionally, responses received from request efforts are required to be reviewed and processed within a specific time while continuously striving toward efficient and timeous retrieval of outstanding/ requested financials.
Role based in Stellenbosch and new joiners will be expected to work from the office. Flexible working may be permitted after probation.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain sound working relationships with General Partner points of contact. Review internal data requests for potential inaccuracies prior to communicating externally. Escalate potential issues to appropriate departments if and when they arise while ensuring timeous resolution and responsiveness.
- Update internal tools with a high degree of accuracy
- Effectively process incoming communication and follow up timeously where required.
- Complete assignments while maintaining established quality standards and SLAs.
- Request missing financials from General Partners via both verbal and written communication channels.
Experience & Qualifications
- Relevant business qualification and/ or experience
- 2+ years working experience in a similar environment
- 2+ years client servicing experience
Life at Burgiss
At Burgiss, you can expect:
- Competitive salary
- Medical aid
- Pension enrolment
- Group risk benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Fun social and engagement calendar
- Corporate socially responsible employer
- Possibility of working flexibly from home and office (after probation)
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About the role:
We are seeking a talented, entrepreneurial QA Analyst to contribute to the Engineering team in an energetic, fast-paced environment. The role will be required to execute on analysis, create test plans and execute on test cases. This is a full-time position.
We use the latest technologies: .NET Core, Docker Containers, Angular 11+, Azure, Kubernetes, SASS, Node.js, RESTful APIs, SQL Server, MongoDB, JavaScript API for Office, Git
Job description:
- Responsible for requirements analysis, creating Test plans, Test scenarios/cases, and Executing test cases
- Collaborate with other Engineering team members and product team
- System/Integration/Regression testing
- Understand the architecture of the current applications and their maintenance
- Production Release and support, whenever required
- Ad-hoc tasks as required by the management
- Meet project deadlines through collaboration with team members
- Ability to communicate with all project team members and stakeholders
- Knowledge in Agile methodologies and ability to work in a team
- Private equity/Financial Services Domain Experience
Required/Desired Qualifications:
- 3 -5 years’ experience with Manual/Automation testing (Selenium)
- Knowledge in JavaScript - Beginner
- Experience/knowledge in Test Automation Framework - Cucumber, BDD
- Knowledge in Continuous Integration tools - TFS / Jenkins
- Proficiency in testing REST APIs with tools like - Ready API, Postman
- Experience in Database Testing and writing SQL Queries. Ability to write/understand Stored Procedures
Advantageous:
- Experience in Performance and Load Testing
- Experience in Security Testing
Life at Burgiss
At Burgiss, you can expect:
- Fully Remote within South Africa - (Required to be onsite at least once a quarter - travel and accommodation will be covered by Burgiss).
- Competitive salary
- Medical aid
- Pension enrolment
- Group risk benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Fun social and engagement calendar
- Corporate socially responsible employer
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About the role:
The Analyst, Onboarding will provide operational support to prospects, clients, and internal functional areas around administration of user access levels within Burgiss platforms. The role will require good communication skills as interacting with other functional areas and clients will be part of the daily workflow.
Responsibilities:
- Setup and administer user access levels within Burgiss platforms: responsible for granting and revoking user access in different applications following the set processes, security, and corporate standards; resolve access related issues
- Assist the creation and maintenance of documentation (processes, procedures, manuals etc.) in the user access management area
- Provide operational support to internal users at Burgiss
- Set up access to demo/trial environments, working alongside the ‘Senior Analysts, Onboarding’, for clients and prospects within Burgiss platforms
- Meet personal and team deadlines through collaboration with team members.
Required Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics or similar with a proven track record of academic excellence.
- Previous experience with software tools user administration.
- Proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel.
- Highly self-motivated with strong attention to detail.
- Comfortable with learning to use new software and adopt new technologies.
- Ability to interact with clients and colleagues in a professional manner (in English, both written & verbal).
Life at Burgiss
At Burgiss, you can expect:
- Competitive salary
- Medical aid cover
- Pension enrolment
- Group risk benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Fun social and engagement calendar
- Corporate socially responsible employer
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About the role:
This role will support the development and management of best-in-class private capital data and data-driven content across Burgiss solutions. If you have a passion for financial data and have exceptional attention to detail with strong analytical skills, this is a great opportunity to join a vibrant, fast growing and dynamic team that helps set the gold standard for research quality private capital data.
Key Responsibilities:
- Gather, create and maintain requirements for all Burgiss data initiatives to ensure maximum integrity and usability of Burgiss data assets for transparency services, as well as market intelligence, benchmarks and other derived works. This includes but is not limited to the maintenance of data tracking policies & procedures applied across all Burgiss datasets, which include complete information on private capital funds and their underlying investments, as well as direct investments in buyout, venture capital, real estate, so on.
- Serve as client-facing subject matter expert to support Sales and Client Service as necessary, and prepare/maintain professional data and analytics-driven publications, presentations and any related product collateral.
- Assist in the development and management of market leading data and analytics-driven content across Burgiss solutions, including transparency services, market intelligence, benchmarks, and other derived works.
- Work closely with other functional teams including Data Operations, Applied Research, Marketing, Client Service and others to inform, educate and learn in order to ensure on-target goals and maximum business impact.
- Research independently and via client consultations in order to maintain the Burgiss Private Capital Classification System, the set of taxonomies used to classify private capital across all levels of investing, including funds, their underlying holdings, and direct investments.
- Participate in ad hoc projects of strategic importance to the firm.
Required Qualifications and Experience:
- 2-3 years of experience working on portfolio analysis, performance measurement, and/or portfolio reporting tools
- Experience analyzing datasets in SQL
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics or similar with a proven track record of academic excellence
Preferred:
- 1-2 years of experience working on private capital portfolio analysis, performance measurement and/or reporting, preferably in a product or consulting function
- Master’s degree in Finance, Economics or similar
- CFA or CAIA charter holder
- Domain expertise in private capital markets
- Experience with private capital reporting
- Data visualization skills
Required Skills & Attributes:
- Domain expertise in the area of portfolio analysis, performance measurement and/or portfolio reporting.
- Ability to manipulate and analyze datasets using SQL.
- Great attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and exercise judgment in effectively carrying out assigned projects.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication & presentation skills.
- Expert knowledge of Excel (Power Pivots & VBA are a plus) and PowerPoint.
Life at Burgiss
At Burgiss, you can expect:
- Competitive salary
- Medical aid cover
- Pension enrolment
- Group risk benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Fun social and engagement calendar
- Corporate socially responsible employer
- Hybrid working model (after probation)
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About the role:
The Derives Works Analyst will assist with the management and audit of Burgiss Data and all related activities ensuring Data and Universe Analytics products are supported by research-quality data. If you have a passion for financial data and have exceptional attention to detail with strong analytical skills, this is a great opportunity to join a vibrant, fast growing and dynamic team that helps set the gold standard for research quality private capital data.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist with the management of the Burgiss Manager Universe dataset productions through collaboration with Engineering, Product Management, Operations and other functional groups
- Manage production of licensed data files for clients
- Audit randomly selected samples of Burgiss Data (e.g. holdings transactions, entity profiles, entity fundamentals, etc.) to derive and report on data integrity KPIs including data accuracy, completeness and policy compliance.
- Develop and maintain data policy expertise
- Propose and implement changes to current methodologies, algorithms and calculations to continually improve on the existing production process
- Create and maintain all supporting documentation
- Participate in ad hoc projects of strategic importance to the firm
Required Qualifications and Experience:
- 2-3+ years of experience working in financial data management
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics or similar
- Excellent technical skills including Excel, SQL, and databases
Skills & Attributes:
- Exceptional attention to detail, analytical and inquisitive mindset
- Strong numerical ability and excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
- Highly organized and self-disciplined
- High levels of focus and the ability to work with and accurately process large volumes of financial data
- Positive attitude and desire to learn
Life at Burgiss
At Burgiss, you can expect:
- Competitive salary
- Medical aid cover
- Pension enrolment
- Group risk benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Fun social and engagement calendar
- Corporate socially responsible employer
- Possibility of working flexibly from home and office (after probation)
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About the role:
The Senior Analyst, Product Owner will work in a fast-paced, agile approach environment engaging with a variety of investment and technology professionals inside and outside the firm. This is a great opportunity to work closely with a highly professional team of engineers and designers to build a great product!
Responsibilities:
Generate requirements for product initiatives:
- Work closely with internal stakeholders to gather and define business requirements
- Work closely with the product and design teams to design practical solutions for business requirements
- Create and develop functional requirement documents including data migration rules, business rules, workflow diagrams, wireframes, user stories and other deliverables to support development.
- Design and document test cases where appropriate. =
Support technical execution and delivery of product initiatives:
- Work closely with engineering team to implement technical solutions given defined business and functional requirements.
- Work closely with quality assurance to ensure designed functionality requirements are met.
Support cross-functional teams:
- Work closely with Data Ops, Data Product, and Global Client Coverage to advise, guide, and support these teams to address client needs.
- Work on ad-hoc projects of strategic importance to the firm.
Required Qualifications, Experience & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Sciences, Engineering or similar,
- Investment Management experience is essential,
- 3 years in a product management role working on enterprise web applications, OR,
- 3 years of experience working on portfolio analysis, performance measurement, and/or portfolio reporting tools
- Domain expertise in the area of portfolio analysis, performance measurement, accounting, and/or portfolio reporting.
Preferred Qualifications, Experience & Skills:
- 5+ years in a product management role working on enterprise web applications
- 5+ years of experience
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