Data Operations Associate - Financials in Belfast

About 9fin

9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission‑critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high‑value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue‑chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best‑in‑class retention driven by deep workflow adoption.

The role

At 9fin, we’ve built a dedicated Data Operations team in Belfast to enhance our data processing capabilities. You’ll be part of a highly skilled team focused on ensuring high‑quality, lightning‑fast data is delivered to our platform, enabling our clients to act with speed and confidence. You’ll work closely with teams in New York, London, and Belfast across Leveraged Finance, Structured Credit, Private Credit, and Distressed Debt.

What you’ll work on

• Associate - Financials Team: Providing fast, reliable financial and corporate data across a wide range of financial markets is no small task. Our team uses cutting‑edge technology to source, analyse, and publish the most relevant information for our clients.
• Leverage Proprietary Tech: Use our in‑house software to extract financial data from a vast range of documents, ensuring accurate, timely updates for companies under 9fin’s coverage.
• Deliver Actionable Insights: Stay ahead of financial reporting for thousands of tracked companies, rapidly identifying key metrics from earnings reports and providing clients with meaningful insights.
• Ensure Accuracy & Quality: Use cutting‑edge technology to extract and validate financial tables, maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and data integrity.
• Analyse Financial Health: Map newly reported figures to existing financials, creating a comprehensive and real‑time view of a company’s financial position.
• Manage Capital Structures: Build and maintain capital structure tables to support detailed financial analysis.
• Standardise Financial Data: Identify and tag key financial terms, ensuring a consistent and comparable dataset across all financial data on 9fin.
• Drive Business Innovation: Work on exciting new projects, including restructuring, private credit, DBC data, and more, helping to shape the future of financial intelligence.

About You

We’re looking for people with a keen eye for detail and an interest in company financials—whether you’re a recent graduate, have experience in finance, economics, accountancy, audit, or another analytical role. If you have some or all of the following attributes, we’d love to hear from you:

• Team player: You thrive in a collaborative environment, supporting those around you to help the whole team succeed.
• Growth mindset: You’re always looking to develop your skills and believe that dedication and hard work lead to improvement.
• Financial acumen: Whether from an accountancy, audit, or finance background, you have experience working with financial data, or the ability to learn quickly. Familiarity with financial statements or credit analysis is a plus but not essential.
• Attention to detail: You have strong analytical skills and can spot patterns, inconsistencies, or key insights in company financials.
• Accuracy under pressure: You can interpret information quickly and construct effective solutions to complex problems, often working to tight deadlines.
• Challenge the status quo: You’re not afraid to suggest better ways of doing things and take an active role in improving processes.
• Clear communicator: You can express ideas concisely, whether in writing or conversation, ensuring clarity and accuracy in your work.

We’re open to candidates from a range of backgrounds – if you’re curious, analytical, and enjoy working with financial data, we’d love to hear from you!

Our benefits

We’re a scaling start up and we enjoy sharing our success. When the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth, and a platform to truly excel.

• Financial & Insurance: Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market), Equity options, Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%), Private Medical Insurance, Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness, Group Life Assurance, Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes.
• Time off: 25 holiday days per year, Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days), Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work, Work abroad for up to 3 months a year, 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service, Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available.
• Training & Culture: Professional learning and development budget, AI experimentation budget of £800 per employee to trial AI tools, Bi‑annual team socials, Summer and Winter company social events.

9fin is an equal opportunities employer. At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.