Summer Student - Investment Data & Analytics

Voya Financial • Atlanta, GA

3d • $23 • Hybrid

About The Position

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future. We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today. Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision. Are you ready to join a company with a strong purpose and a winning culture? Start your Voyage – Apply Now Position Summary Voya Investment Management is seeking a highly motivated self-starter Associate Analyst within the Investment Data & Analytics Team. Success in this role requires a strong analytical mindset and a high attention to detail. This role will be responsible for overseeing daily analytics reports to ensure accuracy. This role also plays a crucial role as part of a team supporting data and analytics as part of the investment process.

Requirements

• Progress toward Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Highly effective communicator with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Ability to problem solve, execute process improvements resulting in robust processes.
• Demonstrated knowledge and/or ability to learn investment products.
• Ability to collaborate across teams to devise comprehensive solutions.
• Ability to multi-task, set direction and thrive in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Highly motivated self-starter with a strong work ethic that is eager to develop and learn.
• An analytical mindset, strong project management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel skills required; SQL skills, a plus.

Nice To Haves

• Interest or progress toward CFA, a plus.

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Engagement: Liaise with various groups, including Risk, Investment Teams, Compliance, etc. on daily production and key initiatives.
• Key Projects: Partake in conversations related to team projects and initiatives.
• Data Requests: Ensure prompt responses to investment data requests from key customers, including traders, portfolio managers, sales, and client service personnel.
• Reporting: Responsible for producing recurring and ad hoc fixed income analytics reports to internal and external stakeholders, applying knowledge of fixed income to assess accuracy.
• Vendor Engagement: Liaise with key vendors to establish recurring touchpoints to raise outstanding items and key topics. Drive the coordination of enhancements within the investment platform with the vendor.
• Investment Data Concepts: Partake in conversations to develop knowledge of investment data concepts including aspects of Duration, Yield, and overall ability to tie the structure of the asset to the analytics that are produced within an analytics model.
• Focus on Continuous Improvement: Bring a fresh perspective on existing issues, processes, and controls to develop and recommend new and improved controls and procedural enhancements.
• Data Structure: Develop understanding of existing SQL data warehouse and work with data vendors and IT to expand and enhance data structures. Complete thorough testing for data changes and oversee changes to production data streams.
• Snowflake Transition: Support transition to snowflake through validation of production data.
• Streamline reporting: Improve existing data requests by automating through Excel, SQL, and APIs. Build out dashboards to easily visualize and pull large sets of data for proposal data requests.
• Data Quality: Troubleshoot data discrepancies between various data sources, create quality checks to proactively ensure data quality.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees