Finance Data Office - Director

Team Profile:

Finance Data Office provides advisory service to Finance senior management and various teams across Finance. It has three areas:

• Data Sourcing - what data does Finance need and how good is it
• Standard and Compliance - what should be common across our data and is our data there yet, and compliance to data policy
• Issue Management - what are the problems with our data, what are the root causes, where our data issues are concentrated

The team is spread across different continents Europe (London), America (New York) and Asia (Manila).

Responsibilities Include but not limited to:

• Accountable for end-to-end Issue Management and Resolution lifecycle of a data related issue and execution of strategic data plan and policy to improve data quality
• Partner with Business SMEs, Data Stewards and other stakeholders to identify data quality issues, confirm risk level, understand functionality, determine patterns, complexity, develop and execute plans for managing and closing issues.
• Facilitating the issue remediation process across various teams in finance, data & technology, to articulate issue facts, materiality, impact and track direct benefits
• Accountable for escalation of Data issues to FDC via Data champions and the Data Councils
• Support, facilitate and strengthen the Issue Management and identification of risk concentration across Finance, including the establishment of key documentation and controls as budget allows for
• Prepare presentation materials for FDC and working group meetings including status updates and implementation planning
• Work across control functions to support the implementation of Policies, Standards and Processes required as part of the Governance Framework

Skills and experience required:

• Strong, data-oriented, and problem solving skills
• Ability and willingness to work with virtual teams across varying regions towards the achievement of common goals
• Demonstrated relationship management and advisory skills with sponsors, key stakeholders and team members
• Aptitude for working in a swiftly changing, dynamic environment and demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity
• Strong attention to details at both micro and macro levels
• Good presentation and communication skills to support decision-making and actions
• Self-motivated personality with high standards for quality of work and accuracy
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Word)
• Product knowledge across all asset class (Derivatives and SFTs)

Qualifications preferred:

• Atleast 5-10 years of combined experience in financial services industry specifically within banking, finance and/ or data governance
• Bachelor's/University degree or Master's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or Information Systems. Alternatively, an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Good understanding of capital market products and knowledge of capital/ liquidity reporting concepts (COREP, LCR, NSFR etc) would be beneficial
• BAU / production issue management and resolution
• Dealing with Front Office, Market risk, Credit risk, Operations and IT support