Data Intern

Job Title: Data Intern

Company: GPFS is the fund administrator of choice for a wide range of clients in the US, UK, and EU. Every day, with every decision and every client interaction, our values serve as guideposts, to improve the quality of our work, and strengthen our employee and client relationships.

As a business that is all about people; culture isn’t an initiative, it’s an innate value that’s critical to every decision we make. At GPFS, people come first.

At GPFS, diversity is a source of strength, both from our people and ideas. GPFS is a collaborative team-oriented organization where we support each other both personally and professionally. Our culture is defined by our behavior, our curiosity and our support of innovative ideas and perspectives.

Our inclusive culture supports and encourages our team members to try new things, share ideas openly and always ask the question why. It brings us together and makes the team stronger by inspiring all to connect, belong and thrive.

Location: Latham, NY - In office 100%

Job Type: Full Time (40 hour weeks)

This is a paid internship opportunity

As an Intern, you’ll gain the insights and financial training you need to get your career started. This is a paid internship, designed to give you hands-on experience. You’ll work alongside some of the best in the industry, a growing team at GPFS which focuses on providing comprehensive data and reporting solutions for Private Market clients. As an intern, you’ll participate in several projects.
You will be assigned a data team mentor to help you build on your classroom learning and develop lifelong skills.

Essential Duties:

• Support the cleansing, preparation, and enhancement of large / complex datasets for clients and internal teams.
• Carry out exploratory data analysis.
• Support reporting environment by maintaining and updating reports and records as needed.
• Reconcile reporting output to source documents.
• Identify areas for process improvement or automation.
• Demonstrate attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong multi-tasking and organizational skills in a project-based environment.
• Ability to research and resolve issues with various degrees of complexity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work as a strong team member as well as an independent contributor.
• Flexibility to work hours needed to complete client deliverables.

Qualifications

• Degree: 4 Year with master’s preferred
• Years of experience: 0-3

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Excel / VBA
• SQL / SSRS
• R / Python
• Business Intelligence / visualization software
• Finance or Economics background a plus

Competencies

• Intellectual curiosity - researching methods or ideas that could benefit the group or project.
• Self-motivating - ability to work independently.
• Analytical skills – understanding relationships within the data and disseminating information accurately.
• Organized
• Highly flexible - adapting to new formats, tools, and sometimes ambiguous work environment.
• Results Driven - working through multiple iterations to achieve success.
• Collaborative – working with multiple groups both within and outside the organization.
• Detailed Orientated
• Ethical

GPFS Vision

Our purpose is to create enduring relationships with our employees and clients by constantly delivering exceptional opportunities and service.

GPFS Value Statement

Investing in people and culture

Core Values

Camaraderie: Being supportive of one another and celebrating each other’s successes

Excellence: Consistently delivering exceptional work and going above and beyond

Empowerment: Fostering a deep sense of agency and ownership over one’s choices and actions

Innovation: The drive to think differently and solve problems creatively

Inclusion: Recognizing individual’s unique strengths and perspectives with mutual trust and respect

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