Director Lead Data Scientist - Investments

Church Pension Group (CPG) is a financial services organization that serves the Episcopal Church, located in Midtown Manhattan. CPG was founded in 1917 to provide pension benefits to eligible clergy of the Episcopal Church. Since then, its mission has expanded to include life and disability insurance, health benefits, property & casualty insurance, and publishing.

The Director, Lead Data Scientist will help define and build the future of data and analytics within The Church Pension Fund's Investments department. As a partner to the Chief Investment Officer, asset class leads, and the risk and performance reporting team, the Director will shape how CPF uses data to generate investment insights, evaluate portfolio opportunities and risks, and support decision-making. The role is intended not simply to respond to data requests, but to identify opportunities, develop new approaches, and influence the evolution of CPF’s investment process through data.

CPF oversees approximately $20 billion across a diversified portfolio of public and private investments. CPF partners with a wide range of external investment managers and holds interests in several hundred individual funds, generating a vast array of data ranging from top-level portfolio Net Asset Values to detailed information about individual holdings within venture capital, real estate, public equity, and other funds. CPF’s access to top-tier investment managers generates an unusually high-quality and differentiated data set. CPF is currently creating an internal data warehouse, initially focused on holdings-level data for private funds, with plans to expand the range of information over time. The Director will play a leading role in determining how this platform evolves and in building the processes, analytical capabilities, and visualizations that enable CPF to derive greater value from its investment data.

Along with working closely with members of the Investments department, the Director will partner with Church Pension Group’s data engineering team. The data engineering team will maintain primary responsibility for development work on the data warehouse, with the Director serving as a bridge between Investments and the IT team to translate investment needs into data and technology priorities and solutions. Through these partnerships, the Director will have substantial ownership over the strategic direction and application of CPF’s investment data and analytics capabilities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the Investments department’s data warehouse, working with asset class specialists to assure data quality
• Develop an overall view of the Investments department’s data resources, combining the data warehouse with other vendor tools
• Determine, in collaboration with the CIO and other members of the Investments team, the strategic direction for CPF’s data analysis capabilities
• Use business intelligence tools to drive value from the data warehouse and other databases, creating and maintaining regular reports at the level of the overall portfolio and individual asset classes
• Respond to ad hoc requests and inquiries about CPF’s data, for example to identify trends in portfolio-company valuations within private investment funds or sector and factor exposures within the public equity allocation
• Carry out modeling and stress-testing work at the portfolio and asset class levels
• Form well-supported hypotheses about exposures and risks within CPF’s portfolio and present them to asset class specialists, the risk team, and the CIO
• Liaise with the Investments department’s vendor specialist to optimize CPF’s data access and flow while managing resources prudently
• Work with the data engineering team within Church Pension Group’s Information and Technology Services department to facilitate advances in the data warehouse and ensure smooth functioning of the overall data layer
• Collaborate with data engineering to facilitate cross-vendor data quality checks and reconciliation
• Effective performance of the essential functions of this position requires regular in-person, on-site interaction with colleagues, both for purposes of relationship building and meaningful collaboration.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of institutional investment topics
• Expertise in business intelligence and database management tools
• Familiarity with coding languages used for data analysis
• Strong understanding of data visualization and reporting techniques and tool-kits
• Strong communication skills and interpersonal skills, including the ability to convey complex information clearly and to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Ability to conduct research both independently and under direction

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Educational background in data science, preferably including a master’s degree in the field or a related field (e.g., mathematics or finance) with a data science concentration or certificate
• 10+yrs years of relevant experience, preferably within an investment organization or a data provider

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Extensive use of a computer keyboard is a demand of the position to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Currently, hybrid work environment, which requires working in CPG’s office Tuesdays through Thursdays and flexibility to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. Church Pension Group employees must maintain a professional, compassionate, and trustworthy work environment always. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable someone with a disability to perform the essential functions of the job within this environment.

Salary Range: $255,000 - $285,000

Flexible Benefits available to eligible employees:

• Medical (including Vision)
• Dental

Core Benefits automatically provided to eligible employees:

• Employer funded defined benefit pension plan (five year vesting)
• Employee Life Insurance
• Spouse and Dependent Life Insurance
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Short-Term Disability (STD) coverage
• Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage (elected as either pre-tax or after-tax)
• Business Travel Accident Insurance
• Worker’s Compensation
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retiree health insurance (eligible after 10 years)
• Retiree life insurance

Elective Benefits available to eligible employees:

• 401(k) with matching contributions (immediate vesting)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Commuter Benefits
• New York’s 529 College Savings Program (NY State residents)

Educational Assistance Program available to eligible employees

Parental Leave available to eligible employees

Time Off available to eligible employees: Vacation, Sick, Personal and Holidays

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. Please understand that, as a general policy, CPG does not sponsor visas.

CPG is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to fair hiring practices and do not discriminate against job applicants or employees based on any protected characteristics.

We also celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.