BAIN CAPITAL OVERVIEW
With approximately $185 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 & Capital Markets, and Real Assets. Today, our team includes 1,880+ 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 PRIVATE EQUITY OVERVIEW
Bain Capital Partners is the private equity affiliate of Bain Capital. Over the past 31 years, The Private Equity Group has made over 280 investments and has 15 active global buyout funds. Our private equity activity primarily includes leveraged buyouts and growth capital invested across a wide variety of sectors. Bain Capital has found that a combination of a strong management team, sound fundamental business analysis, and a focused strategy can substantially improve a company’s income as well as its long-term strategic value.
Bain Capital Partners seeks opportunities to invest in market leading companies poised for dynamic change and to back outstanding management teams to implement that change. We believe the most critical ingredients in a company’s success are the management team and the alignment of management incentives with those of the investors. Our portfolio companies have significant management-equity ownership as a key part of the investment strategy. Bain Capital professionals are significant investors in each transaction, which achieves an alignment of goals with portfolio company management teams.
The group has developed significant expertise in several business areas including technology, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and industrial and consumer products. Transaction types include leveraged acquisitions, expansion capital, growth buyouts, turnarounds, consolidation plays, private buyouts, public company recapitalizations, convertible preferred investments, and financial restructurings.
DATA GOVERNANCE DIRECTOR – GLOBAL PRIVATE EQUITY - FINANCE
The successful candidate will join Bain Capital’s Boston office as a Director, with a mandate to establish a data governance framework, build new policies & procedures, and redesign process and data workflows to support the Global Private Equity business. Data Governance is a new function for the Private Equity business and this is a unique and impactful opportunity to lead and drive transformational change. This role will work very closely with key functions such as Finance & Fund Operations, Data Analytics & Reporting, Investor Relations and the Information Technology team.
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 strategy across systems landscape, including deal pipeline, accounting system, portfolio company monitoring system, valuation and revenue models, as well as the Central Data Lake and Reporting tools.
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 machine learning to build reasonability tests and create alerts
Document key processes and protocols to create transparency and foster appropriate data use and process efficiency and governance
Practically apply data governance tools and technologies such as an automated data quality engine and data dictionary
Act as a Data Management Office that identifies data and reporting challenges, serves as a sounding board for key stakeholders across functions, tracks issues and designs remediation / control efforts
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
The candidate will lead a dedicated Data Governance team of 2 FTEs, including this role, which may expand over time depending on the need for further centralized data resources, as well as efficiencies gained.
The team will work closely with colleagues across Private Equity Finance, Private Equity Investment Operations, as well as Data Governance, IT and Investor Relations colleagues that support the broader firm.
Key elements to success in this role are:
Leadership and ability to be a change agent
In-depth understanding of underlying data, systems and root cause analysis
Ability to map out and document processes
Experience / background specific to Private 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
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
Compensation:
Expected Annual Base Salary $160,000 – 190,000
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.