Specialist, Account Data Management & Governance

New York, NY

Full time

R0012599

Neuberger’s focus on Enterprise Data Governance is rooted in its commitment to enabling smart, data-driven decisions that uphold the firm’s core principles. Effective governance ensures data is high quality, well-understood, and readily available to support informed decision-making across the organization. This role owns account data quality, controls, and process discipline across the account lifecycle — onboarding, fund launches, transitions, terminations, exception monitoring/resolution, and technology implementation.

This is a hands-on role requiring day-to-day data maintenance work, including researching and resolving data exceptions and breaks across systems (e.g., trading platforms, Data Warehouses, Visualization Systems, and Golden Sources), and working directly with data owners to align fields and definitions across systems. The role has a growth path toward broader ownership of account lifecycle processes and offshore workflow oversight as the function matures over 1–3 years.

Responsibilities

Data Quality & Exception Resolution

• Manually investigate and resolve mismatched account data across systems, working directly with data owners to align fields and definitions.

• Download and reviewdata exceptionsdaily;and reach out to account owners to resolve breaks.

Account Onboarding & Data Setup

• Oversee the New Account team's daily new Aladdin account opening.

• Submit,reviewand approveNew Account Application (NAA) updates

• Assist the New Account Opening team with openingInstitutional,Intermediary,Subadvised, and CIT Trust accounts.

• Manage account openings at custodian portals.

• Maintain Aladdin data through updates in ADAM and Blackrock Portfolio Toolkit.

• Establish consistent entity recordsand account reference dataacross systems.

Data Governance and Standards

• Support theAccountDataSteward in definingand executingthe account data roadmap.

• Define and supervise governance of critical data elements.

• Add new Account Business Terms intoGlossary+to support enterprise data cataloging.

• Add new rules to the Data Platform Portal, including rules thatutilizelookup tables.

• Review Data Warehouse discrepancies and drive resolution.

• Perform ERISAand other regulatoryflagcontrolsdata review.

• Performuseraccess screeningfor account master data.

Technology Partnership & Continuous Improvement

• Identifyand project manage account data enhancements across key systems and stakeholders.

• Submit stories to technology and attend grooming sessions to shape upcoming enhancements.

• Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) forsubmittedstories.

• Submit stories for newDatacticsrules to support automated exception detection.

• Collaborate on cross-functional projects where account data is used.

Stakeholder Coordination & Reporting

• Lead aweekly account data meeting with key stakeholdersto review open items and exception trends.

• Organize the AccountOwnersQuarterly Discussion/Update call, providing updates on progress against the roadmap.

• Prepareand presentquarterlyupdatefor Enterprise Data Governance (EDG)leadership.

• Partner acrossfront office (Sales, Portfolio Management) and control teams (Operations,Finance,Legal &Compliance, Technology), and offshoreteams on account data initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• 5-8+ years of relevant experience

• Experience with reference data, security master, or account master data.

• Experience documenting and mapping business processes.

• Project management and business analysis experience.

• Strong data analysis, profiling, and discovery skills.

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent work efforts independently.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Proficiencyin MS Excel, Visio (or equivalent), and PowerPoint.

• Comfort with hands-on manual data investigation and exception resolution.

Preferred

• Hands-on experience with Aladdin,Datactics, and/orVantageIQ.

• Data governance experience in financial services.

• Fund launch or fund onboarding experience.

• Investment operations background.

• 5+ years of asset management experience.

• Experience with data cataloging tools (e.g., Collibra) or lookup-table-drivenrulesengines.

• Exposure to offshore team coordination.

Location: New York City; hybrid with a minimum of three days per week in office.

Applicants must be authorized and have the right to work in the country where the role is located without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Compensation Details

The salary range for this role is $125,000-$150,000. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in the job posting location. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, business sector, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, market benchmarking data, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. This job is also eligible for a discretionary bonus, which, along with base salary and retirement contributions, is part of our total comprehensive package. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, retirement, life insurance and other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, production, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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Founded in 1939, Neuberger is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. From offices in 40 cities worldwide, the firm manages $567 billion in client assets (as of March, 2026) across a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally.

Tenured, stable and long-term in focus, the firm has built a diverse team—including 790-plus investment professionals and more than 2,900 employees in total—united in their commitment to delivering client outcomes and investment excellence. It is our people who define our culture and have enabled us to be recognized by Pensions & Investments as the first or second "Best Place to Work in Money Management” for last eight consecutive years (firms with 1,000+ employees).

Neuberger believes strongly that all employees are entitled to be treated with respect and dignity, and to work in a professional and safe environment. These values are the cornerstone of our firm. We prohibit any form of harassment, whether mental, verbal or physical. We do not tolerate the support of terrorist groups, acts of terrorism, or threats of violence. All who wish to be employed by the firm are expected to uphold these principles.

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