Business Analyst

Location: London

Reporting Line: Co-Managing Director

Level for Referral Policy: Junior

Who We Are

Founded in 2002 as a pioneering hedge fund, Marble Bar has built its reputation on intellectual discipline, research, data-driven insight and a deep understanding of investment behaviours. Since its founding, the firm has helped portfolio managers identify repeatable processes within their investment practice and sustain their edge in constantly evolving markets. For over twenty years, we have successfully identified exceptional managers and created environments to help them generate durable returns.

What We Do

In 2016 we launched The Partners Business and opened our integrated architecture to independent hedge fund managers, supporting them initially as they navigate the fragile early stages of building their businesses. We are a shared operating system purpose built to support hedge fund managers at every stage of their lifecycle, from launch and early operational resilience to performance development, capital formation, and long-term scale. This has established Marble Bar as the leading home for exceptional managers wishing to create unique and independent investment firms with the freedom to focus on investing.

Your Role

This is a high-impact, multi-disciplinary position sitting at the intersection of financial modelling, commercial deal structuring and investment talent assessment. The successful candidate will work directly with senior leadership to strengthen the firm's analytical and decision-making infrastructure – both at the enterprise level and in support of Marble Bar’s core activity of identifying, onboarding and growing the Partners Business. This is a generalist analytical role for someone who is equally comfortable building bottom-up operational models, structuring partnership economics and interrogating an investment manager's track record. Strong quantitative and programming skills, combined with the communication ability to present findings clearly to senior stakeholders, are essential.

Your Key Areas of Impact

• Enterprise Financial & Operational Modelling
  • Build and maintain bottom-up financial and operational models of the firm, incorporating headcount, cost, revenue and capacity assumptions.
  • Support improved budgeting, forecasting and objective-setting processes across the business.
  • Design and implement an activity-based costing framework, costing the use of central resources provided to each Partner.
  • Provide clear visibility into deal-level, cost-centre and partnership-level profitability.
  • Develop capacity and throughput models to assess operational infrastructure and support planning for portfolio growth.
  • Support the design of a KPI and OKR-driven performance monitoring system, establishing metrics that track progress against strategic objectives.
• Partnership Deal Modelling & Structuring
  • Build bespoke financial models to analyse and stress-test the economics of proposed partnership arrangements with new and existing Partners.
  • Model revenue share, fee structures, capital allocation and hurdle rate mechanics across a range of deal scenarios.
  • Produce clear deal summaries and scenario analyses to support Deal Committee presentations and internal investment decisions.
  • Maintain and develop a modelling framework that can be applied consistently across new partnership opportunities.
  • Work closely with senior leadership and legal to translate commercial terms into quantitative model assumptions.
• Investment Talent Diligence & Assessment
  • Conduct quantitative and qualitative due diligence on prospective Partner investment managers, assessing track records, investment strategy, alpha generation and risk profile.
  • Produce detailed performance analytics reviews within the Partners due diligence process, including strategy assessment, historical portfolio and trading history analysis.
  • Profile prospective Partners including assessment of expected returns, risk characteristics, capacity and optimal market environments for their strategies.
  • Develop and systematise analytical frameworks to assess track records with varying degrees of data completeness.
  • Identify initial areas of opportunity for portfolio management and trading behaviour improvement in prospective and existing Partners.
• Data, Reporting & Analytics Infrastructure
  • Build and maintain databases and structured datasets covering Partner Firm performance, deal economics and operational metrics.
  • Develop and automate reports, dashboards and presentations for senior management and Partner Firm stakeholders using Python and BI tools.
  • Work with developers and the risk/analytics team to continuously improve reporting capabilities and deliver novel analytical tools.
  • Support the IR and Capital Development teams with data and analytics outputs for investor due diligence processes.

What We Are Looking For

• Ability to deliver advanced financial and operational modelling, demonstrating bottom-up, scenario based and activity-based costing approaches.
• Prior exposure to investment manager due diligence, fund analysis or alternative strategies (equities, credit, macro).
• Experience structuring or modelling commercial deals, partnership economics or fee arrangements.
• Strong data management skills including SQL databases and structured data pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis, modelling automation and workflow scripting (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy).
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to present complex quantitative findings clearly to senior and non-technical audiences.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams with competing deadlines.
• Familiarity with AI and natural language models is a plus.

The role is based in London with an expectation of 5 days per week in the office.