Position Management Data Associate

PIMCO•Newport Beach, CA

23h

About The Position

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients’ capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world’s largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns. Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients. Role Overview We are seeking a detailoriented Position Management Data Analyst & Controls professional to support the firm’s platform transformation by leading position data analysis, reconciliation frameworks, and certification activities across legacy and target platforms. This role is central to ensuring position data integrity and P&L accuracy ahead of downstream consumer migration, serving as a qualitycontrol checkpoint throughout the transformation lifecycle. The analyst will work closely with senior position management, accounting, and technology stakeholders to validate position parity and ensure confidence in migration outcomes.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in position management, investment data reconciliation, or operational controls within a global asset management, asset servicing, or prime brokerage environment.
Strong analytical skills with handson experience designing and executing multiasset position and P&L reconciliations.
Familiarity with position parity testing, UAT methodologies, and migration certification for investment book of record platforms.
Solid understanding of position lifecycle inputs, including trade economics, settlements, corporate actions, FX revaluations, and cost basis methodologies.
Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Excel, with experience developing exception reporting and control dashboards.

Responsibilities

Design and execute endtoend reconciliation frameworks comparing position and P&L outputs across legacy and target platforms.
Define and maintain certification criteria and acceptance thresholds to validate position parity across accounts, strategies, asset classes, and legal entities.
Perform detailed rootcause analysis on position breaks and P&L discrepancies, distinguishing among system behavior differences, sourcing gaps, lifecycle timing issues, and data quality failures.
Develop and maintain automated controls, exception reporting, and monitoring dashboards to support continuous validation.
Partner closely with the Position Management Product Owner, Technology, and Accounting teams to resolve upstream data issues impacting reconciliation outcomes.
Prepare evidencebased certification and signoff materials for senior stakeholders, auditors, and migration governance forums.
Monitor intraday position breaks and EOD reconciliation exceptions, escalating material issues and driving timely resolution within defined SLAs.