Data Associate, Transaction Management

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute end-to-end 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 root-cause 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, evidence-based certification and sign-off materials for senior stakeholders, audit teams, and migration governance forums.
• Monitor transaction-related exceptions during test and migration phases, escalating material issues and driving resolution within defined SLAs.

Qualifications

• 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 hands-on experience performing transaction-level 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 middle-office 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 audit-ready documentation and clear certification summaries for senior stakeholders.

Pay

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

Benefits

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.