Senior Business/Data Analyst- Asset Management in London

Energy Jobline ZR; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London seeks a Senior Business/Data Analyst to support data strategy execution in asset management. The role involves engaging with stakeholders to understand data needs, delivering analytical artefacts, and investigating data quality. Ideal candidates have experience in data projects within asset management and a strong knowledge of financial products. The position offers up to £100,000 plus a performance bonus in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Experience of working on Data projects in the Asset Management Industry.
• Aptitude for analysis and requirements gathering.
• Good understanding of data governance concepts.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Operations stakeholders to understand their data requirements.
• Deliver analysis artefacts including detailed requirements and data flows.
• Investigate Data Issues and identify root causes.

Skills

Data analysis

Requirements gathering

Financial products understanding

Data governance

Data Quality dimensions

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Job description

Overview

Senior Business/Data Analyst - Asset Management
London- hybrid working
Up to £100,000 + 5% annual performance related bonus

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This opportunity is to join a British multinational financial services and asset management company headquartered in London. Its products and services include investment management, lifetime mortgages (a form of equity release), pensions, annuities, and life insurance.

Overview: An exciting opportunity to support operations with the execution of their data strategy, the delivery of their vision and business goals.

This role is part of the Data Solutions team, under the leadership of the Data Solutions Partner for Operations supporting the team in expanding and improving business capabilities and executing change. The Data Solutions team engages with key business areas and business partners with data use cases to guide them, support them in designing and achieving their business objectives with data in a way that is sustainable, risk aware and compliant with market and company standards.

As data is a key enabler asset, the team engages with the business to assess the impact of small- or large-scale changes on their activities and their data consumption, content, architecture and data usage within. The Data team, by working closely with the data users within the Investments team, helps identify data requirements driven by business activities and changes to those, including changes to enterprise data assets. Based on a deep understanding of the user activities and data needs, the team then supports the design and delivery of solutions most suited to meet requirements.

The role requires close collaboration with the Data Solutions team and business stakeholders, Technology, Architecture while delivering value through data to Operations. She/He is expected to map out impacted processes with data domains, flows, attribute level requirements, support designs and prototypes, identify key risks and gaps, and work with our partner (STT Alpha), business capability owners and Data Operations to ensure delivery of the required capability and a smooth transition into business-as-usual.

The ideal candidate has an up-to-date understanding of asset management processes, key activities within Operations data.

Principal accountabilities

• Engage with key Operations stakeholders, data users in the business to understand their data requirements, goals and challenges both in the context of BAU and Change.
• Understand and communicate customer needs, articulate that to internal and external service providers (including STT CRD), validate proposed solution with internal customers, technology, Data.
• Work closely with SMEs, members of the CDO Team, Technology and the Change team. Build a strong and effective relationship with key stakeholders - Business users (investments), Data Solutions and Operations teams, Solutions, Data and Business Architecture, Engineers.
• Balance effective design with deployment of strategic / tactical components to suit each scenario
• Deliver analysis artefacts incl. detailed requirements, data flows, service descriptions with defined acceptance criteria and manage engagement with internal and STT delivery teams.
• Ensure that proposed designs are scalable, repeatable, and sustainable. Consider and agree BAU support and services as part of the solution.
• Follow data risk and governance practices while developing solutions, highlight any risks inherent in the proposal. Log and raise risks formally.
• Organise, cleanse, align, and correlate vast, complicated data sets to gain insight, complete analysis.
• Investigate Data Issues and identify root causes for data issues collaborating with all Data Stakeholders to enable a complete understanding of the problem and solution. Keep up to date on live issues and work with the key teams to resolve them.
• Develop appropriate data controls, DQ as part of solutions
• Participate in data domain related methodology discussions, follow existing data standard practices and policies. Work with and contribute to design forums, in particular Tech and Data Design Authority and its community.

Experience, knowledge and interpersonal skills:

• Experience of working on Data project/s in the Asset Management Industry.
• Aptitude for analysis and requirements gathering, data solution and operating model definition
• Demonstrate a good understanding of financial products, business capabilities, data domains, data vendors, data models,
• Collaborative approach to working with business users, architects, the Data Management Team, external delivery partners and subject matter experts alike, to establish the facts, and ensure good communication of requirements.
• Experience of working within a large-scale change programme
• Good understanding of data governance concepts including data domains, data ownership, data stewardship and application of critical data element standards and definitions
• Experience and knowledge of Data Quality dimensions and how to define DQ rules, metrics, validation processes and DQ Dashboards
• Ability to work quickly, against a deadline/changing deadline while maintaining quality.
• Ability to analyse complex data flows and map data movement at data attribute level, across operational business processes
• A vibrant personality with a genuine and personal interest in data related business and technology current affairs
• Excited and motivated to work in 'Data' and able to evangelise the benefits of taking a data led approach to creating business value.
• Proven resilience to project challenges and adjustments to direction and scope - a positive and open approach to life with a delivery mind-set
• Pro-active contributor, willingly take ownership, self-manage and self-start on allocated activities.
• Experience of managing a diverse group of stakeholders, managers, and subject matter experts, building positive and productive relationships.
• Experience of working in a highly flexible and collaborative team environment. A team player and contributor
• Structured and methodological approach to problem solving.
• Ability to confidently present information and engage with a wide range of people and backgrounds.
• A desire to succeed and provide value to the organisation

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This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.

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