Senior Associate - MDM Operations

Our Company

Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $224 billion in assets under management.  The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, private equity, real assets and listed equities.  The firm has over 1500 employees and offices in 26 cities worldwide.

We are committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

For additional information please visit our website at www.oaktreecapital.com.

Position Summary

As MDM operations associate within Oaktree's Data Management/Solutions team, you will be acting as SME for consolidating master data across key domains such as Security Master, Legal Entity Master, Issuer Master, Account Master, Credit agreements, deals etc. and This role is pivotal in understanding private credit operations, deal onboarding. You will be tasked with building robust operational processes that support the firm’s data-driven decision-making while ensuring that data operations are fully integrated into our futuristic centralized MDM model for future growth.

Key responsibilities

• As a MDM Operations Senior Associate, you will be joining our Data Operations team in Hyderabad office closely working in US timings with onsite business team i:e LA team to ensure you are in sync with the key stakeholders to expand MDM Operations for the upcoming master data needs.
• This is role will play a critical part to build a “Golden Record” for supporting Oaktree’s private credit business (Borrowers, Facilities and Sponsors) —one of the firm’s largest and most sophisticated investment strategies.
•  Hands-on exposure in creation, maintenance, validation and support of instrument master data domains, operational workflows, Matching and Survivorship, Hierarchy construction, enrichment and stewardship to efficiently govern MDM lifecycle across the enterprise.
• High ownership & autonomy: Collaborate with global stakeholders (primarily Los Angeles-based) while independently driving problem identification, solution design, execution, and communication.
• Develop and implement MDM Ops operating model right from people (ownership), processes (workflows) and leverage modern technology (MDM automation) by effectively coordinating with business and technology teams and own delivery end-to-end to support data management life cycle
• Identify and perform MDM ops automation/re-usable capabilities such as Entity resolution, Covenant Breach Alerting (Attribute Management), Administrative Agent changes (Reference data), Private credit Nuance (complex SPV structures)
• Strong exposure in MDM deal onboarding process/operations right from extracting the pricing grid, exception management(Override/Exception master record), Borrowing Base Extraction/Calculation for Asset Based Lending, Closing day operational handshake (Pre closing status),Validation/Reconciliation, prevent accidental edits on core Facility Master data and act as single source of truth for priced, collateralized and reported.
• Develop and implement MDM data workflows (fast ingestion, transformation, analytics, APIs), semantic models, mdm operations dashboards are designed for long-term scalability and efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with data engineering/tech teams to define and implement mdm operational processes that align with data pipeline architectures, ensuring robust and scalable data solutions.
• Define and develop a robust data quality rule(s) across mdm data domains and critical data assets that proactively monitors and resolves quality issues, partnering with data owners and data stewards throughout the organization.
• Look for performance optimizing techniques, diagnosing data issues, performing root cause analysis, and working directly with technical teams or business stakeholders to remediate issues and develop corrective actions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in MDM operational life cycle, data quality and monitoring the mdm jobs/daily loads, alerting, triaging issues and stakeholder management.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of mdm data operations, ensuring that data flows through end-to-end data pipelines efficiently and accurately, with minimal disruption to downstream consumers.
• Collaborate with technology and governance teams to ensure upstream data issues are addressed and that validation processes are updated as necessary to ensure long-term data integrity.
• Develop performance metrics and KPIs to measure the effectiveness of mdm data operations, ensuring alignment with business goals and continuous improvement.
• Monitoring the job schedules on daily basis, sending alerts to downstream teams for any mdm data delays/SLAs, diagnosing issues from job status/logs
• Triaging the mdm data issues by coordinating with business/data solutions teams for permanent fixes and come up with clear-cut Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and sharing across all the users for closing the loop
• Documenting best practices around master data domains/datasets, master data catalog/lineage, release management, mdm data load runbooks, issue resolution and data/system performance health checks
• Familiar with MDM tools such as Semarchy, Azure Profisee MDM or Open source/In house MDM a plus

Personal Attributes

• Relationship Building; works effectively with strong, diverse teams of people with multiple perspectives, talents, and backgrounds.  He or she is known for doing what is best irrespective of politics and is comfortable with consensus building (at multiple levels) and soliciting constructive feedback; ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of participants including upper management, clients, other departments, and 3rd party providers.
• Communication; strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills; ability to present complex material.
• Independence & Collaboration; experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment; must be able to drive work effectively with limited supervision (at times) while representing department and executive management interests and concerns.
• Work Ethic; focus on continual development, performance, accountability, and self-motivation.
• Flexibility & Organization; adapt to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities; proven ability to multi-task and efficiently manage time across competing activities/resources; able to effectively prioritize, execute tasks, and thrive in a high-pressure fast paced environment.
• Intellectual Curiosity; energized by learning new things and engaging across a wide range of issues; must have strong problem-solving skills; understand the importance of attention to detail, adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products; displays a technical aptitude that lends itself to learning and mastering new technologies.
• Driving Results; sets aggressive timelines and objectives to drive results, conveys a sense of urgency, and drives issues to closure; is a self-starter committed to achieving results and has a strong sense of ownership and follow-through.
• Judgment; makes recommendations and decisions that balance a variety of factors.

Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days in a week from office, 2 days can be work from home)

Shift timings: 8PM - 5AM (Night Shift)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related field.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service,  marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment.

This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.

For positions based in Los Angeles

For those applying for a position in the city of Los Angeles, the firm will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.