Associate - Data Quality - BFS

Data Quality Associate

Responsibilities Include but not limited to:

- Tracking, adjudication and reporting of Data Issues

- Facilitating the issue remediation process across various teas in Finance, by hosting and facilitating conference calls amongst SMEs required to drive items to closure

- Working across teams 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 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

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).

Qualifications 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

- Aptitude for working in a swiftly changing, dynamic environment

- Strong attention to details

- Excellent communication skills

- 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:

- University degree (BSc or BA) in accounting, finance, or a related discipline

- Postgraduate qualification / studying towards: ACT, ACA or equivalent

- 3+ years of work experience in a Finance / investment banking preferred

- Finance ; capital or liquidity reporting (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