Data Migration Specialist

Country-limitedCaribbean hours OK
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The posting is explicitly open to Barbados residents with no work authorisation requirement stated. The role is 100% remote and the stated UTC offset of -4 aligns with Jamaica (UTC-5) by approximately one hour, permitting substantial overlap during standard business hours. The residency preference is stated as preference, not requirement, and the target user meets all technical and language criteria.

“Barbados” Geographic scope — Caribbean named explicitly; included subject to G3 (which passed above).
“Stated location / restrictions: Barbados Source-provided allowed countries: Barbados” Geographic scope — Posting is explicitly restricted to Barbados, and target user resides in the anglophone Caribbean (Jamaica at UTC-5, one hour offset from Barbados at UTC-4).
“100% remote work.” Physical presence — No physical presence requirement; fully remote role eliminates any commuting or relocation barrier.
“Source-provided allowed UTC offsets: -4” Timezone — Barbados operates at UTC-4; Jamaica operates at UTC-5 (one-hour offset). Standard business hours in UTC-4 (e.g., 08:00-18:00) overlap substantially with UTC-5 business hours, exceeding the 4-hour minimum threshold.
“Preference will be given to a Barbados resident.” Work authorization — No work authorisation requirement is stated. The residency preference is explicitly optional ('preference'), not mandatory, and applies within the Caribbean context where work authorisation restrictions do not apply to intra-regional employment.
“Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.” Language — No language beyond English is required. All technical documentation, reporting, and communication are in English.

About the role

Overview

  • FundCount is a growing international fintech company with a 20-year history and a
  • global office and staff footprint. We provide a unified software solution for investment,
  • general, and partnership accounting and analysis. Our product delivers operational
  • efficiency and insight to investment management professionals — family offices, fund
  • administrators, and alternative fund managers.
  • The Data Migration Specialist (DMS) is a member of the Implementation team,
  • responsible for transitioning the data required to build an operational database in
  • FundCount . The Implementation team handles the efficient and accurate onboarding of
  • new FundCount clients and their training. Our clients are single- and multi-family offices,
  • fund administrators, and hedge funds who hold a wide range of public and private
  • securities and general ledger transactions. The DMS plays a critical role in ensuring
  • historical data is transferred efficiently and reconciled with official records.

Our Product

  • All portfolio and partnership accounting activity in FundCount is aggregated within one
  • software system and flows through a single general ledger. Investment information is
  • consolidated, accurate, and instantly available, providing the insight and foundation
  • needed for in-depth analysis that drives decision-making. Our clients are single- and
  • multi-family offices, fund administrators, private equity firms, and hedge funds.

Responsibilities

  • Apply expert Excel and related database programming/management skills to export
  • and organize data from legacy systems for import into FundCount .
  • Perform data validation tests to understand and improve data quality.
  • Document data flow through legacy system antecedents and other databases.
  • Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis where necessary in recommending
  • process improvements.
  • Assist in the creation of new — and the maintenance of existing — data import and
  • export interfaces between FundCount and 3rd-party systems and services.
  • Develop Excel-based macros and scripts to automate data collection, analysis, and
  • reporting.
  • Build validation and reconciliation reports and dashboards to confirm migrated data
  • ties out to official records.
  • Work on multiple data migration implementation projects simultaneously.
  • Interface with internal staff to implement data migration tasks.
  • Manage data migration testing and reporting.
  • Help identify design and interface process improvements.
  • Create systems integration documentation.
  • Submit the results of work into the Jira tracking system, properly describing and
  • organizing each task according to the company’s established workflow.

Technical Skills

  • The core technical toolkit for this role spans spreadsheet automation, business
  • intelligence, data querying, and scripting. Strong candidates are hands-on across the following areas:

Spreadsheets & Data Automation

  • Advanced Microsoft Excel — complex formulas, pivot tables, lookups, and data validation.
  • Excel VBA / macros — automating data collection, transformation, and reporting.
  • Excel VBA / macros — automating data collection, transformation, and reporting.

Business Intelligence & Reporting

  • Microsoft Power BI — building reports and dashboards for validation and analysis.
  • DAX — authoring measures and calculated columns.
  • Data modeling in Power BI — star-schema design, relationships, and table structure.

Databases & Querying

  • SQL — writing queries to extract, profile, and validate data.
  • Working knowledge of relational database structure and data-integrity concepts.
  • Comfort with structured data formats used in import/export interfaces (XML, CSV, JSON).

Programming & Scripting

  • Python scripting — data transformation, automation, and batch processing.
  • General scripting aptitude and a genuine interest in applied programming.
  • Java and JavaScript — nice to have, not required.

Critical Success Factors

  • 2+ years of relevant experience creating reports for business users of ERP systems.
  • Advanced MS Excel knowledge and an understanding of SQL queries.
  • Understanding of the principles of analyzing large data sets and identifying patterns to define rules.
  • Ability to learn new things quickly and work both independently and as a member of a project team.
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Nice to Have

  • Experience in the accounting, financial, economic, or banking sector; investment, trading, and hedge fund accounting knowledge.
  • Knowledge of jXLS (report and template generation).
  • Familiarity with version control (Git / GitLab) for managing scripts and templates
  • Familiarity with Jira or similar systems for task/issue management.
  • A broader interest in applied programming and process automation.

Our Offer

  • Full-time, 40 hours per week.
  • 100% remote work.
  • Competitive salary in USD + bonuses.
  • Preference will be given to a Barbados resident.

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  • EmploymentNot stated in posting
  • Hiring scopeBB
  • Time zoneCaribbean hours OK
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Posted2mo ago

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