Company Description
WELCOME TO MARS CAPITAL
Mars Capital Finance Ireland DAC (“Mars Capital”) is part of Arrow Global Group Limited, which is one of Europe’s leading integrated asset managers with €70bn Assets Under Management (“AUM”) and 2,000 employees across five jurisdictions.
Mars Capital was established in 2015 and is a Regulated Credit Servicing Firm, authorised by the by the Central Bank of Ireland and located in Dublin 2. Mars Capital has the capacity and regulatory authority to service loans secured against properties and has €8bn AUM, experiencing significant growth in recent years. We provide services that span the full lifecycle of a loan post origination, from drawdown through to loan administration, asset management, enforcement as well as syndication, securitisation, and standby servicing.
We value our relationship with our clients and believe that our deployment of dedicated, Dublin-based project and asset management teams give us a competitive advantage over other competitors who operate a shared services model across their portfolios. Placing the customer first in a simple and efficient manner in line with our regulatory obligation is our number one priority.
Our local strategic ambition is to provide value accretive services to institutional clients, while building better financial futures for our customers, clients, communities and colleagues.
Our Culture and Way of Working
We’re entrepreneurial, fast-paced and decisive, working together safely and supportively. We trust our colleagues to make the right decisions and are brave enough to acknowledge mistakes and to learn from them. Celebrating success, we reward those who help us to achieve exceptional long-term results.
We’re inclusive and encourage our colleagues to be themselves. Our culture supports the difference that makes each of us unique. We’re open and eager to embrace new ways of working and have a diverse community, enriched by our local identities that works collaboratively to build a unified and dynamic organisation.
We believe that a supported flexible working approach helps us to retain valued colleagues, enhance wellbeing, increase motivation and encourage a healthy work/life balance. If you’re interviewed, ask about the flexibility involved in this role.
Our Values
Our stakeholders expect us to act in an ethical and responsible way and this is at the heart of how we conduct our business. Our values support this philosophy, and we seek out and reward behaviours that will make us more sustainable, responsible and successful. Our values are- we succeed together; we do the right thing; we’re trusted and valued; and we’re brave and creative. You’ll hear more about these throughout the interview process.
Our STAR Awards provide a fantastic platform to send a special thank you to a colleague who may have gone above and beyond to help you and the business succeed, or someone who has been brave and creative with their own approach to how they work. Values orientated, our Recognition Scheme plays a pivotal role in aligning and celebrating our culture, and simply wouldn’t exist without colleague participation and input.
Our Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) Commitment
We’re committed to investing responsibly and supporting our local communities and charitable organisations. Every colleague is encouraged to take a paid day each calendar year to volunteer for our nominated charities. Internally we are very proud of our four colleague-led engagement groups, who run events/initiatives, that promote our culture and values which is a key part of the life blood of this business.


Job Description

• Clean and check quality of data files received from third-party providers ready for database imports
• Build checks required across different data sources to ensure consistency and completeness
• Proactively drive third-party providers to improve data output, both in terms of quality and accuracy
• Promote data governance and strive to continuously improve data quality including availability, usability, and consistency
• Consult, influence and build relationships with all key internal and external contacts
• Ad hoc analysis and reporting on the investment level including requests from the business and client
• Modelling scenario analysis
• Gain understanding of the portfolios and underlying assets
• Provide a critical bridge between third-party providers, Asset Management teams and the client
• Understand and prepare weekly and monthly performance reports to support business planning and day-to-day management of the portfolio
• Maintain dialogue and work closely with Asset Management teams and the client, understanding and predicting requirements
• Assist the development and implementation of effective and consistent systems, as required

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of data quality issues, data transformations. Best practice in data manipulation and cleansing
• SQL essential experience
• Excellent understanding of working in an Asset Management or financial services business and interpreting data
• Strong analytical skills and numeracy, with high levels of accuracy
• Ability to understand complex data and present it in a clear and understandable way
• Able to manage and organise large volumes of information
• Ability to link different data sources and come up with an overall/overarching story
• Proven ability to mine and manage large populations of data from multiple and diverse systems
• Able to plan all action steps to conclude assignments on time
• Structured approach to problem solving
• Strong critical thinking skills, intuitively curious and an ability to diagnose data issues
• Advanced MS Excel skills (Power Pivot, Power Query, VBA)
• S Automation (SSRS, SSIS) and QL knowledge is desirable
• Experience with data visualisation / reporting tools (Tableau, Power BI, etc)
• Experience of dealing with senior management and stakeholders
• Experience of working in a fast paced, changeable environment

Additional Information
Central Bank of Ireland (“CBI”) Fitness & Probity Regime
Some of our roles are Control Functions (“CF”) as defined by the Central Bank Reform Act 2010. If a vacancy is for a CF role, it will be indicated above. For CF roles, appointment will be conditional on Mars Capital being fully satisfied that the appointee meets the requirements as set out in the Fitness and Probity Standards 2018 issued by the Central Bank of Ireland. In the case of proposed appointees to Pre-Approval Control Functions, this includes prior approval by the CBI of such appointments.
D&I statement