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Manager, Data Governance role at Bain Capital—lead data governance initiatives across Credit & Special Situations.
Drive data quality, automation, and AI tools integration while leading cross-functional teams.
BAIN CAPITAL OVERVIEW
With approximately $215 billion of assets under management, Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private investment firms. We create lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Over four decades we have strategically grown our platform to focus on Private Equity, Growth & Venture, Capital Solutions, Credit, and Real Assets. Today, our team includes 1,985+ employees in 24 offices on four continents.
We partner differently to help people and companies embrace possibility and realize potential. Founded as a private partnership in 1984, we have fostered a culture of innovation, entrepreneurialism, and agility, empowering our people to define and own their career trajectories. Today, our partnership approach enables us to pursue strategic growth, build enduring relationships with a robust external network, and collaborate across our integrated platform to connect the deep and diverse expertise that unlocks breakthrough insights.
Our people are the heart of our advantage. Colleagues at all levels have a seat at the table as they tackle business challenges with a principal investor mindset. By asking incisive questions, respectfully challenging one another, and remaining intellectually agile, we work together to achieve exceptional outcomes.
BAIN CAPITAL CREDIT AND SPECIAL SITUATIONS OVERVIEW
Bain Capital Credit & Special Situations are independently managed affiliates of Bain Capital, with a collective $55 billion in assets under management. We invest across the full spectrum of credit strategies, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, direct lending, structured products, non-performing loans, and equities. Through our numerous funds, we have the ability to invest in every level of a company’s capital structure from secured debt to equity, and we can also provide capital to growing companies with unique financing needs.
Our investment process is characterized by detailed business and financial analysis and a culture of vigorous debate. We combine a consulting-based approach to industry, competitor, and business analysis with an in-depth examination of a target company’s financial performance and capital structure. Our goal is to select the best industries, the best companies, and the best relative value among the many securities each company offers. Bain Capital Credit has a world-class team of investment professionals with extensive experience analyzing and managing high-yield investments.
CENTRAL DATA GOVERNANCE TEAM – MANAGER
The successful candidate will join Bain Capital’s Central Data Governance Team as a Manager and report to the Credit & Special Situations Data Governance Team Lead. This role will be responsible for the design, implementation, adoption, and maintenance of a spectrum of data governance capabilities and solutions. These capabilities include but are not limited to data process redesign/modernization projects, data issue management, data quality management, data catalog management, data health KPI’s and metrics reporting, and visualization tool and AI-enablement. This role will work very closely with a variety of functions such as Investment and Trade Operations, Finance, Data Analytics & Reporting, Portfolio Management, Investor Relations and Information Technology. This is an exciting and impactful opportunity to lead and drive transformational changes for the Credit and Special Situations businesses.
Key responsibilities are to:
- Analyze and drive efficiency around end-to-end workflows
- Map out processes from data collection to end-user reporting with enhanced quality controls
- Prioritize and oversee key IT projects that impact data and reporting, as well as drive effective project planning and execution
- Partner with key business stakeholders to design systems architecture and implement data strategies across systems landscape, including deal pipeline, accounting system, portfolio company monitoring system, valuation and revenue models, as well as data warehouse completeness and end user reporting consumption
- Ensure appropriate data architecture, completeness, quality and transparency to enable automated reporting using visualization reporting tools (e.g. Power BI) and approved AI reporting tools
- Be a change agent in reducing manual processes and developing consistent approaches to where mappings, calculations and data aggregations should be stored in the systems
- Partner with key business stakeholders and use traditional SQL or machine learning to build reasonability tests and create alerts via a central data quality framework (e.g. Monte Carlo)
- Document key data terms, processes and protocols to create transparency and foster appropriate data use and process efficiency and governance via a central data catalog framework (e.g. Atlan)
- Act as a Data Management Office that identifies data and reporting challenges, track and root cause data issues, and design proper remediation controls, actions and process redesigns to avoid future occurrences
- Serves as a sounding board for key stakeholders across functions
- Develop and track progress of data and reporting health KPI’s / metrics
- Build scalable data and process solutions that integrate with both business-specific and firmwide reporting needs
The primary measures of success in this role are:
Mitigation of data errors in reporting to investors and in internal portfolio analytics/models and management reporting
Data and process flow redesign and automation
Improved data quality and transparency
Enablement of automated reporting via flexible visualization tools and approved AI tools
Integration of AI tools into processes and using AI tools to gain tangible efficiencies
Key elements to success in this role are:
Leadership and ability to be a change agent; can-do attitude
In-depth understanding of underlying data, systems and root cause analysis
Ability to map out, document, and rationalize processes
Experience / background specific to Private Credit and Equity with heavy exposure to data management and systems in either Finance, Operations or Data Governance capacity
QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven experience collaborating effectively with multiple stakeholders/internal customers
- Strong communication and relationship management skills across several key functions
- Strong process discipline – ability to design new processes and improve existing ones
- Self-starter with a deadline-driven mindset
- A strong understanding of multiple asset classes – it is a plus to specifically have experience with fixed income, private equity, private credit, liquid credit and distressed assets
- Comfort with a data-intensive and demanding environment
- Experience in Finance, Operations or standing up or maintaining a data governance program at a similar firm
- 10+ years of experience in asset management or closely related field
Why Join Us
At Bain Capital, you’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment that values innovation and excellence. You’ll be part of a high-performing team that leverages data to drive strategic decisions and investment insights across global markets.
Compensation:
- Expected Annual Base Salary: $125,000 - $140,000
- Actual base salary will be determined by a wide range of factors including but not limited to role, function, level, experience, qualifications and geographic location. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based upon factors such as individual impact, team and firm performance. Bain Capital offers a competitive benefits package designed to support employees’ health, financial security, family needs, and overall well-being.
Bain Capital is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.