Prudential

PGIM Fixed Income - Director, Data Analytics

Posted on: 1 Feb 2021

Newark, NJ

Job Description

* PGIM is the diversified asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU). With $1.4 trillion in assets under management, and 38 offices spanning 16 countries, PGIM is among the worlds top-10 largest asset managers. Comprised of seven self-governing asset management divisions, each PGIM business offers a distinct workplace culture that aligns with the firms ultimate objective: to provide premier service to our clients while fostering an inclusive workplace culture that is rooted in trust, respect and equality.

Our Business:

PGIM Fixed Income is a global asset manager offering active solutions across all fixed income markets. With 950 employees, the company has offices in Newark, London, Letterkenny, Amsterdam, Munich, Zurich, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Our business climate is a safe inclusive environment, centered around mutual respect, intellectual honesty, transparency and teamwork. Our leaders are focused on talent & culture; dedicated to fostering growth & development at all levels to develop the industry leaders of tomorrow.

Our Role:

In PGIM Fixed Income, our technology group is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with exciting changes on the horizon under new senior leadership. We are looking for a lead business intelligence resource to align with senior leaders in creating a Center of Excellence for all new visualization and data analytics within the various departments in Fixed Income. Our ideal candidate will have proven experience in leading teams in building dynamic analytics report/dashboards for financial end-users. The right candidate for this role will identify this challenge as a unique and valuable opportunity to help drive our global technology transformation, so if this sounds interesting, then PGIM could be the place for you.

Your Impact:

* Align with senior leaders in establishing a new BI Analytic Center of Excellence within PGIM Fixed Income, determining the ideal BI tech stack for our end-users
* Lead a small team of BI specialists with backend platform expertise and front-end consultancy capability
* Transform complex reporting needs into technical specifications, including calculations, custom groups, parameters, filtering criteria, aggregations etc. Breakdown complex requirements into user stories, and drive delivery with the product team
* Recommend best practices from both a technical and process perspective as related to Tableau development
* Groom large datasets for optimal performance and maintainability
* Troubleshoot issues as they occur, identify criticality and impact, and provide appropriate workarounds
* Oversee and handle all support, ticket resolution, feature requests and defect tracking

Your Required Skills:

* 7+ years of Tableau application development experience, including visualizations, parameters, and report optimization
* 3+ years of experience in a BI Lead role, including implementation of best practices and SDLC concepts
* Demonstrated experience with leading, coaching and developing a team of technical resources
* Expertise across multiple BI platforms and data visualization tools include Tableau and Power BI
* Solid exposure to ETL toolsets used to extract data into queryable format ready to analyze such as Alteryx
* Strong experience with performance tuning business intelligence and database platforms for maximum performance in each technical configuration
* Expertise with multiple database platforms including relational databases (ie. SQL Server and Oracle) as well as cloud-based data warehouses such as Amazon Redshift and Snowflake
* Experience with both server and desktop-based data visualization tools
* Expertise with managing and mining very large internal and external data sets
* Good experience with sourcing external data sets to meet business needs
* Demonstrated experience with testing business hypotheses, asking the right questions to provoke thoughts from business users and ultimately using data to test and validate hypothesis
* Very strong experience with quickly building data visualization worksheets and dashboards to analyze, view and interpret data sets
* Demonstrated experience with using predictive, prescriptive and descriptive data analytics to test, question and solve business problems
* Have a consulting mindset when working with internal clients across multiple departments of the organization
* Ideally familiar with financial services datasets across investment, product and distribution functions - not essential but highly desirable
* Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with a strong preference in a Data-centric major.
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Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.

We recognize that our strength and success are directly linked to the quality and skills of our diverse associates. We are proud to be a place where talented people who want to make a difference can grow as professionals, leaders, and as individuals. Visit www.prudential.com to learn more about our values, our history and our brand.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status , medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.

The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ and its affiliates.

Note that this posting is intended for individual applicants. Search firms or agencies should email Staffing at staffingagencies@prudential.com for more information about doing business with Prudential.

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES:
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, which may include an assessment, please call (800) 433-8960, prompt 4 or email accommodation.h&w@prudential.com.

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Prudential

Newark, NJ

Prudential Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services. It operates through PGIM, U.S. Workplace Solutions, U.S. Individual Solutions, and International Insurance divisions. The PGIM division offers an array of asset management and advisory services related to public and private fixed income, public equity and real estate, commercial mortgage origination and servicing, and mutual funds and other retail services to institutional, private, and sub-advisory clients, as well as to insurance company separate accounts, government sponsored entities, and the general account.

The U.S. Workplace Solutions division provides a range of retirement investment, and income products and services to retirement plan sponsors in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors; and group life, long-term and short-term group disability, and group corporate-, bank-, and trust-owned life insurance in the United States, primarily to institutional clients for use in connection with employee plans and affinity groups.The U.S. Individual Solutions division develops and distributes individual variable and fixed annuity products, principally to the mass affluent and affluent markets; and individual variable, term, and universal life insurance products to the mass middle, mass affluent, and affluent markets in the United States.

The International Insurance division develops and distributes individual life insurance, retirement, and related products to the mass affluent and affluent markets in Japan, Korea, and other foreign countries, as well as middle income and mass affluent markets. The company offers its products and services to individual and institutional customers through its proprietary and third-party distribution networks. Prudential Financial, Inc. was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

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