Automation Data Analyst - FinOps

About Pagaya  

Pagaya is a financial technology company reshaping the asset management space using machine learning and big data analytics to manage institutional money. With a focus on fixed income and alternative credit, Pagaya offers a variety of discretionary funds to institutional investors including pension funds, insurance companies and banks.

Pagaya’s unique technology platform — Pagaya Pulse — runs on a suite of artificial intelligence technologies and state-of-the-art algorithms to deliver a consistently high and scalable performance edge. The company was founded in 2016 by seasoned finance and technology professionals with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. 

The team manages over $5 billion in assets on behalf of institutional investors around the world. 

Our Team

Our team comprises over 500 professionals in New York and Tel Aviv with expertise in artificial intelligence, data-rich alternative assets and asset management. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams -- people you can be proud to work with!

Who We Are

• Continuous learning. It’s okay to not know something yet, but have the desire to grow and improve.
• Win for all. We put our mission over ourselves to make sure all participants in the system win.
• Debate and commit. Share openly, question respectfully, and once a decision is made, commit to it fully.
• The Pagaya way. Use first principles thinking to support our needs, but is unique to Pagaya.

Role Description  

As a financial analyst you will analyze Pagaya’s complex data sets and derive meaningful insights on Pagaya’s assets. You will work with various stakeholders in order to provide valuable analysis to answer financial, business and data questions. You will be part of a team working on providing automated solutions for operational teams in different verticals. You will define data needs and suggest improvements to the different financial processes. You will run end to end projects within the financial operations department.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and analyze large datasets across multiple internal/external sources using Python and various tools (BI tools, SQL, and Excel)
• Demonstrate the ability to present and provide meaningful business insights from data
• Perform ad-hoc analysis to support business decisions
• Manage and run cross-company financial projects
• Suggest improvement of processes by implementing changes and automation
• Learn and understand the business and suggest improvements
• Support ongoing data analysis requests by means of python coding running on big data sets
• Evaluate, drive and operationalize Pagaya’s financial efforts through all of its financial instruments and investment channels

Qualifications

• +2 years of experience as an analyst
• +1 year of experience with Python and SQL - A MUST
• Finance, Economics, Statistics or a related degree, MBA – advantage
• Able to learn new subjects quickly, capable of self-management and deliver on time and of quality
• Good knowledge of financial and statistical concepts
• Great analytical skills
• Independent and out of the box thinker
• Very high level of English (verbal and written)
• Full control in Office programs - Advanced Excel
• Experience in data modeling ETL development and data warehousing – advantage
• Experience in BI tools such as tableau, looker, Power BI or similar – advantage

Pagaya is an equal opportunity employer. Pagaya is encouraging diversity and actively seeking applicants from all backgrounds, as are committed to creating a diverse workforce together with an inclusive environment for all. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, skills, and business needs.