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Get to Know the Opportunity
Voya Investment Management is seeking a highly motivated self-starter Senior for the Investment Data & Analytics Team. The individual will report to the SVP, Investment Data & Analytics. Success in this role requires a strong analytical mindset, excellent problem-solving skills and high attention to detail. This role will be responsible for applying knowledge as a subject matter expert of investment data workflows to assist in daily workstreams such as portfolio and benchmark setups, commission rate adjustments, investment data system configurations, as well as strategic initiatives to support investment management.
The Contributions You Will Make

• Project Coordination: Lead projects within the Investment Data & Analytics team to assist Voya Investment Management with implementation on various systems, predominantly BlackRock Aladdin.
• Investment Solutions: Liaise with vendors and investment teams to propose and assist in solving creative solutions to support the investment business. Represent team with knowledge of key processes and systems to support developing accurate, sustainable solutions.
• Portfolio Setup & Maintenance: Liaise with client service and investment teams to ensure that portfolios have appropriate core attributes and are maintained on an ongoing basis. Subsequently, ensure these are updated in respective systems owned by the Investment Data & Analytics team.
• Team Development: Provide leadership and mentorship to a team of investment support and data professionals. Foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team. Set clear goals and expectations and empower team members to achieve their full potential.
• Investment Data Concepts: Applying knowledge of investment data concepts to support day-to-day functions.
• Trade Workflow: Be able to assist with processes requiring an understanding of trade workflow.
• Data Flow: Become knowledgeable in data workflows to become Subject Matter Expert in OMS data flows (primarily BlackRock Aladdin).
• Transaction Costs: Assist in modification of commissions on equity trades.
• Data Resolution: Investigate data quality issues affecting investment data; coordinate resolution with other groups as required.
• Data Requests: Promptly respond to investment data requests from key customers, including traders, portfolio managers, sales, and client service personnel.
• Problem Solve: Investigate data issues, applying a root cause analysis approach to ensure the root cause is understood and documented. Identify steps to solve the issue going forward utilizing a root cause analysis approach.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Liaise with various groups, including Risk, Investment Teams, Compliance, etc. on daily production and key initiatives.
• Vendor Engagement: Drive relationships and communication with key vendors to establish recurring touchpoints to raise outstanding items and key topics. Drive the coordination of enhancements within the investment platform with the vendor.
• Benchmark Process: Work with investment teams on solutions around benchmarking and providing appropriate indices. This includes helping with creating solutions for custom indices, as well as respective rebalance processes and nuances around feeds from index vendors to BlackRock Aladdin. Ensure respective benchmarks are set up timely and maintained. Work alongside the investment teams to perform analysis on benchmark rebalances to ensure the data is comprehensive and accurate.
• Focus on Continuous Improvement: Bring a fresh perspective on existing issues, processes, and controls to develop and recommend new and improved controls and procedural enhancements.

Minimum Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in economics, Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Highly effective communicator with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Ability to solve problems, execute process improvements resulting in robust processes.
• Demonstrated knowledge and/or ability to learn investment products.
• Ability to train, lead, build and mentor staff. Set objectives for the team to foster and encourage growth.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled tools - Experience using or willingness to adopt AI-driven workflow, analytics, or reconciliation tools to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and decision support.
• Cultivate key relationships across the organization to ensure connection amongst various teams throughout Voya Investment Management.
• Represent the team in key discussions.
• Ability to collaborate across teams to devise comprehensive solutions.
• Ability to multi-task, set direction and thrive in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Highly motivated self-starter with a strong work ethic that is eager to develop and learn.
• An analytical mindset, strong project management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• 4-6 years' experience in a similar capacity within investment management preferred. Experience in investment management required. Experience with BlackRock Aladdin, preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills required, SQL skills & API knowledge preferred.
• Interest or progress toward CFA, a plus.

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Compensation Pay Disclosure:
Voya is committed to pay that's fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate's geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$90,000 - $120,000 USD
Be Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That's why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan - with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan - employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off - including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time - 40 hours per calendar year

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Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

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Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
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