73 Strings | Senior Product Analyst | bangalore

OVERVIEW OF 73 STRINGS:

73 Strings is an innovative platform providing comprehensive data extraction, monitoring, and valuation solutions for the private capital industry. The company's AI-powered platform streamlines middle-office processes for alternative investments, enabling seamless data structuring and standardization, monitoring, and fair value estimation at the click of a button. 73 Strings serves clients globally across various strategies, including Private Equity, Growth Equity, Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Private Credit.

As of today, 73 Strings has developed a unique AI-augmented platform and solutions that aim to assist experts in their day-to-day operations:

• 73 Extract: transforms unstructured data into structured, actionable information. This breakthrough allows for a fresh perspective on your data, enabling more informed and strategic investment decisions.
• 73 Monitor: automates structured data collection, offers enhanced visualization capabilities, and seamlessly gathers portfolio company financial data in multiple languages.
• 73 Value: digitalizing valuations in equity and credit and control your valuation insights with AI, advanced analytics and tailored workflows delivering faster, more accurate, and audit ready valuations.
• Clients of 73 Strings hail from Europe, the US and the Middle East, and include alternative investment funds, fund administrators and management companies, as well as corporates, banks, advisors, and other finance professionals. Over the last year, 73 Strings has added clients with a combined AUM of $9 trillion.

In June 2023, 73 Strings completed a series A funding that was led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, Blackstone's early-stage strategic investment arm, and Fidelity International Strategic Ventures (FISV), with participation from Broadhaven Ventures. This demonstrates prime confidence in 73 Strings’ innovative technology and market potential.

The company has offices in Paris, London, New York, Toronto, London, Riyadh, São Paulo and Bengaluru.

THE TEAM:

The current leadership of 73 Strings has extensive professional expertise in the valuation of private assets and understand the importance of informed decision-making when it comes to managing capital:

• Yann Magnan, Co-Founder and CEO : Previous experience at E&Y (Valuation Advisory) and Duff & Phelps, most recently as head of EMEA and member of the Global Operating Committee.

• Abhishek Pandey, Co-Founder and Deputy CEO : Previous experience at Corporate Finance (Deloitte, Grant Thornton) and Duff & Phelps most recently as Managing Director in India.

• Vinod Vijapur, Co-Founder and CTO : Previous experience in banking at HDFC Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and at BoAML, most recently as Head of APAC Regional Applications – Program Management.

• Sambeet Parija, Co-Founder and CPO : Previous experience at Duff & Phelps as part of the valuation team in India having led several strategic projects across different sectors.

• Jazmin Hogan, North America Lead: Previous experience at the Blackstone, Apollo and Kohlberg & Co, most recently as Director of Valuations and Analytics.

• Celine Bes, EMEA Lead, Previous experience in Investment Banking and Valuation at Goldman Sachs and Private Equity and Transaction Advisory at E&Y.

The team is supported by a global network of advisors formed by highly seasoned veterans with combined 300+ years of financial advisory and private markets experience.

ROLE AND BACKGROUND:

Senior Product Analyst:

The Senior Product Analyst will play a critical role in delivering cutting-edge data analysis and visualization solutions tailored to the product team. Your extensive expertise in analytics and data visualisation will be instrumental in transforming complex financial datasets into actionable insights for both internal teams and clients. This role requires you to collaborate closely with product leaders. Your technical proficiency in SQL, Power BI/Tableau, Python, A/B Testing and experience in product analytics will be essential in driving innovation, enhancing data processes, and ensuring seamless delivery of data-driven solutions to clients and stakeholders. This role requires working closely with product team to enhance product performance, conducting deep-dives, RCAs and impact assessments, assisting team in GTMs, enabling tracking of performance via dashboards for leadership and product managers.

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 6-7 Years

Education: Preferred Tier college

Responsibilities:

• Product Analytics : provide insights into feature adaption, leading/laggin metric to track product performance.

• KPI creation and monitoring : work with PMs to build the right set of KPIs and prepare dashboards which enable self-serve RCAs.

• Conduct impact assessments : conduct impact assessments of new feature/product launches providing actionable insights to the product team. Work with engineering team to ensure right data points are being captured and is available for tracking performance.

• Advanced Dashboard Development : Build dynamic, highly interactive Power BI dashboards, focusing on advanced visualization techniques such as waterfall charts, financial heatmaps, tree maps, and dynamic slicers for real-time financial data insights.

• Data Modeling : Design highly efficient, scalable, and normalized data models in Power BI that integrate various financial data sources (SQL Server, Azure, APIs). Implement star and snowflake schema designs to enhance performance in a finance-centric data warehouse.

• Performance Tuning : Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in Power BI reports and datasets, optimizing data load processes, query folding, and model relationships. Leverage best practices such as incremental data refresh, and parameterized queries to manage millions of rows of financial data.

Technical Skills Required:

• Product Analytics: Knowledge of key product analytics concepts, including user behavior tracking, funnel analysis, retention analysis, and cohort analysis, using tools such as Mixpanel, Amplitude, or Google Analytics.

• A/B Testing Methodologies: Proficiency in designing, executing, and analyzing A/B and multivariate tests to measure the impact of changes in product features or user interfaces. Familiarity with statistical concepts such as hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and p-values.

• SQL: Strong SQL skills, including experience writing advanced queries, stored procedures, and optimizing data extraction from relational databases like SQL Server and Azure SQL.

• Power BI Desktop & Service: Expert-level proficiency in Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, including Power Query, Dataflows, and Workspace management.

• ETL Processes: Experience with Power Query M for building efficient ETL pipelines to transform raw financial data into structured formats. Knowledge of query folding and performance optimization during the ETL process.

• Cloud Integration: Experience working with cloud-based data platforms (Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics) to connect, ingest, and process financial data at scale.

• Power BI REST API: Familiarity with Power BI REST API for automating report deployment, dataset management, and report embedding into custom applications.

• Version Control & DevOps: Experience with Git for version control and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Preferred Financial Expertise:

• Financial KPIs & Metrics: Expertise in modeling complex financial KPIs such as Return on Investment (ROI), Total Shareholder Return (TSR), Profit Margins, and other advanced financial metrics within Power BI.

• Time Series Analysis: Experience with time intelligence for forecasting financial trends, managing fiscal calendars, and running historical data comparisons across different financial periods.

• Regulatory Compliance: Familiarity with financial compliance and regulatory reporting (IFRS, GAAP.