Strategic Investment Data & Reporting Lead

As Northern Lgps; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern LGPS is building a new investment reporting and data governance function from a standing start. As Manager - Data & Reporting, you will own the reporting relied upon by partner funds, Board and regulators, while governing the investment data that underpins it.

Working across Investment Operations, Risk, Compliance and Technology, you will establish reporting disciplines, design golden sources and lead a small team to deliver trusted, well-governed information for oversight and

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience producing institutional or client investment reporting, including periodic reporting packs for external audiences.
• Experience overseeing an outsourced performance measurement or reporting provider, including validating provider output.
• Working knowledge of investment data, including security and entity masters, benchmarks and classification data.
• An understanding of the distinction between the investment book of record and accounting book of record.
• Experience of data governance disciplines, including data catalogues, golden source designation, data lineage and data quality rules and thresholds.

Responsibilities

• Own production of the quarterly partner fund reporting pack, shareholder and disclosure reporting support, and responses to ad hoc partner fund data requests.
• Establish and manage the reporting calendar, cut-offs and dependencies across contributing functions, alongside reporting requirements and change management.
• Ensure reports issued externally are subject to appropriate four-eyes review and documented sign-off.
• Own monthly Board and committee management information and consolidate operational management information across relevant functions.
• Oversee externally produced investment performance measurement and attribution, validating and signing off provider output before release and dissemination to partner funds.
• Maintain a clear boundary with Investment Risk for independent performance validation and commentary.
• Establish and maintain Northern's investment data catalogue, covering definitions, owners, sources and lineage, while coordinating data governance across operating functions.
• Designate and maintain golden sources, resolve conflicts between legacy systems and partner fund practices, and document the source of record for positions, cash, valuations and performance.
• Monitor function-level data ownership and quality obligations and provide clear reporting on data governance to relevant governance forums.
• Own security, entity, counterparty, benchmark, classification and private markets static data masters, alongside monitoring market data feeds and escalating failures.
• Establish data quality rules and thresholds, overseeing daily exception monitoring, investigation, resolution tracking and escalation.
• Own the reporting inventory, version control and retention arrangements.
• Take functional ownership of the reporting platform, working closely with the IT Investment Applications Lead.
• Maintain effective procedures and controls across the function and jointly provide the Regulatory Operations and Data return to the Operating Committee with the Head of Compliance.
• Build the Data & Reporting function from a standing start, working with the Head of Investment Operations to establish priorities for the first reporting cycle and subsequent development.
• Lead and develop the team as the function takes shape, with a target structure of two to three direct reports.

Skills

Investment reporting

Data governance

Data catalogues

Performance measurement

Job description

Northern LGPS is building a new investment reporting and data governance function from a standing start. As Manager - Data & Reporting, you will own the reporting relied upon by partner funds, Board and regulators, while governing the investment data that underpins it.

Working across Investment Operations, Risk, Compliance and Technology, you will establish reporting disciplines, design golden sources and lead a small team to deliver trusted, well-governed information for oversight and