Finance Data Analytics Manager/Senior Associate

BAIN CAPITAL OVERVIEW

With approximately $185 billion of assets under management, Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private investment firms. We create lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Over four decades we have strategically grown our platform to focus on Private Equity, Growth & Venture, Capital Solutions, Credit & Capital Markets, and Real Assets. Today, our team includes 1,880+ employees in 24 offices on four continents. 

We partner differently to help people and companies embrace possibility and realize potential. Founded as a private partnership in 1984, we have fostered a culture of innovation, entrepreneurialism, and agility, empowering our people to define and own their career trajectories. Today, our partnership approach enables us to pursue strategic growth, build enduring relationships with a robust external network, and collaborate across our integrated platform to connect the deep and diverse expertise that unlocks breakthrough insights.

Our people are the heart of our advantage. Colleagues at all levels have a seat at the table as they tackle business challenges with a principal investor mindset. By asking incisive questions, respectfully challenging one another, and remaining intellectually agile, we work together to achieve exceptional outcomes. 

PRIVATE EQUITY OVERVIEW

Bain Capital Partners is the private equity affiliate of Bain Capital. Over the past 31 years, The Private Equity Group has made over 280 investments and has 15 active global buyout funds. Our private equity activity primarily includes leveraged buyouts and growth capital invested across a wide variety of sectors. Bain Capital has found that a combination of a strong management team, sound fundamental business analysis, and a focused strategy can substantially improve a company’s income as well as its long-term strategic value.

Bain Capital Partners seeks opportunities to invest in market leading companies poised for dynamic change and to back outstanding management teams to implement that change. We believe the most critical ingredients in a company’s success are the management team and the alignment of management incentives with those of the investors. Our portfolio companies have significant management-equity ownership as a key part of the investment strategy. Bain Capital professionals are significant investors in each transaction, which achieves an alignment of goals with portfolio company management teams.

The group has developed significant expertise in several business areas including technology, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and industrial and consumer products.  Transaction types include leveraged acquisitions, expansion capital, growth buyouts, turnarounds, consolidation plays, private buyouts, public company recapitalizations, convertible preferred investments, and financial restructurings.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Help drive the data strategy and product as it relates to integrations, governance, ingestion, warehousing, and automations in collaboration with investment professionals, finance, IR & technology.  Communicate strategic vision regularly through detailed, written product requirements, roadmap documents and presentations.

• Partner with ends users in Finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders to configure Chronograph and/or Anaplan in order to meet process and functional requirements for existing & future use cases.

• Define & communicate the ongoing application and process support model consisting of business users, IT personnel, and 3rd party resources as applicable.

• Build capabilities of business users and IT personnel in Chronograph and/or Anaplan through training, knowledge transfer, and day to day issue resolution

• Work with vendor partners to advocate for desired enhancements and to stay informed of new product/platform capabilities as they become available

• Help drive continuous functional & technical improvement across the Chronograph and/or Anaplan platforms.

• Enhanced Business unit cross functional reporting with intuitive standardization, validations, audit controls, and automatic roll-forwards with Chronograph and/or Anaplan-enabled datasets

• Identifies future opportunities to leverage the platform across other corporate functions and business units and incorporate into data strategy roadmap

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors or advanced degree in computer science, information technology, and/or finance/accounting

• Accounting, private company valuations, and/or financial planning & analysis experience in a corporate or consulting capacity preferred

• 2+ years of demonstrated hands-on experience using Chronograph and/or Anaplan, preferably involving full lifecycle design & implementation

• Strong understanding of data management concepts

• Self-motivated and willing to work, learn and take ownership in an energetic, fast pace team environment

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Private equity, venture capital, alternative investment asset industry finance or technology experience preferred

• Prior experience in data integration, Data Analytics & Visualization/BI solutions preferred

• Prior technology consulting experience strongly preferred

Bain Capital is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.