Morgan Stanley India | Data Operations - Private Markets, Associate, Investment Management

Key responsibilities

• As a global investment manager with significant scale, continued growth, an increasingly diverse investment platform, and growing demand for data, analytics, and AI, we have a compelling opportunity to reimagine how data is organized, governed, architected, and consumed across the firm.
• We are seeking an Associate, Data Operations — Private Markets to support the execution of the data operating model across MSIM's Private Markets platform.
• The role will perform day-to-day oversight and control of data received from external fund administrators and internal platforms, helping ensure that critical investment and operational data is complete, accurate, timely, traceable and fit for use across the organization.
• The role will require the Associate to understand both the data and the underlying business processes, enabling issues to be investigated beyond the initial exception and resolved as close to source as possible.
• Execute data quality and control processes across critical Private Markets data received from fund administrators, third-party providers and internal platforms, assessing completeness, accuracy, timeliness and consistency.
• Investigate and resolve data exceptions, identifying root causes, documenting findings and remediation, and escalating material or unresolved issues to the Vice President with clear analysis and recommendations.
• Perform reconciliations and variance analysis across relevant investment and fund data, including positions, cash, capital activity, P&L and other accounting or operational data, as applicable.
• Support data governance activities, including maintenance of Critical Data Elements (CDEs), business definitions, data ownership, sourcing information, lineage and data-quality requirements.
• Engage fund administrators and internal data providers to resolve data and delivery issues, track outstanding items and drive timely remediation.
• Execute and test data-quality rules and tolerances, identify recurring exception patterns and support enhancements to controls and exception-based workflows.
• Maintain clear evidence and audit trails for data-quality reviews, exceptions, remediation and approvals in accordance with established control standards.
• Support continuous improvement and automation initiatives by identifying opportunities to eliminate recurring data issues, reduce manual processing and strengthen preventative controls.
• Partner across the Private Markets platform with Operations, Technology, Data Governance and other data consumers to support onboarding, change initiatives and ongoing data-quality requirements.
• Produce data-quality and operational reporting, including SLA performance, exception volumes and trends, recurring issues and remediation status.
• Operates with a strong sense of ethics and integrity in interactions with others and decision making.
• Takes ownership and accountability for the quality and completeness of work.
• Collaborates effectively across teams and works constructively with internal and external partners to resolve issues.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of Private Markets products and operating processes, ideally across private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure or other alternative investment strategies.
• Experience working with investment, fund accounting or operational data supplied by fund administrators, third-party service providers or internal platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to investigate data exceptions, reconcile information from multiple sources and identify root causes.
• Understanding of core Private Markets fund and accounting data, including capital activity, positions, cash, trial balance/general ledger, P&L, fees and NAV-related data.
• Familiarity with data governance and data-quality concepts, including CDEs, business definitions, lineage, data-quality rules, issue management and controls.
• Strong attention to detail and a disciplined control mindset, with the ability to maintain clear documentation and evidence of reviews and decisions.
• Advanced Excel skills; familiarity with data analysis or query tools such as SQL is beneficial.
• Experience with Private Markets or fund accounting platforms such as eFront, Investran or comparable platforms is preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across global teams and with external service providers.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business, Information Systems or a related discipline; CA, CPA or equivalent qualification or progression toward a relevant professional qualification is beneficial.
• Applies strong attention to detail while understanding the broader business process and downstream implications of data.
• Communicates findings clearly and concisely, including the ability to explain complex data issues and recommended actions.

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm founded in New York in 1935, known for investment banking, sales and trading, wealth management and investment management.

Its teams in India support the firm's global businesses. For chartered accountants this means corporate controllers, external reporting, regulatory reporting, tax and risk roles.

• Industry: Investment banking, wealth and investment management
• Headquarters: New York, USA
• In India: Teams in Mumbai and Bengaluru supporting global businesses