Assistant Manager - Reference Data

Crisil; Pune District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Crisil in Pune, Maharashtra, seeks a Senior Reference Data Manager to lead governance of market data and reference datasets. You will partner with stakeholders, drive data quality, and implement automation using SQL, Gen AI, and tools like ServiceNow and Salesforce.

You will oversee multiple operation support teams, manage metadata architectures, and generate high-level reports with CapIQ plugins. A Master’s in Finance and 5+ years of relevant experience with people management are preferred.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in finance or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Reference Data, Market Data or finance, with at least 1 year in a managerial role.
• Strong understanding of data management practices.
• Proficient in automation tools and technologies, including SQL.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Implement quality control measures to ensure deliverables meet standards and stakeholder expectations.

Responsibilities

• Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring effective communication, alignment of expectations, timely issue resolution, and successful delivery of team objectives.
• Oversee multiple operation support teams for data/content management activities.
• Ensure team members are compliant when conducting data collection through knowledge of guidelines and research tools.
• Develop and implement operational procedures and best practices to enhance efficiency and productivity.
• Manage the performance review process, career guidance and talent development.
• Hands-on expertise with ServiceNow and Azure DevOps for incident, change and task management, plus Miro for planning.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Communication

Project management

Data quality

RCA & Six Sigma

Education

Master’s degree in Finance

Tools

ServiceNow

Azure DevOps

Miro

CapIQ Plugins

Salesforce

SQL

Gen AI

Collibra

Alation

Azure Data Catalog

RDF

RDFS

OWL

SPARQL

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

1. Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring effective communication, alignment of expectations, timely issue resolution, and successful delivery of team objectives.
2. Oversee multiple operation support teams/groups for a range of data/content management activities.
3. Ensure team members are compliant when conducting data/information collection through thorough knowledge of guidelines, policies and research tools.
4. Develop and implement operational procedures and best practices to enhance efficiency and productivity through cross collaboration and Agile methodology.
5. Manage the performance review process, Career guidance and talent development.
6. Hands-on expertise with workflow and project management tools such as ServiceNow and Azure DevOps (ADO) for incident, change, and task management alongsideMirofor collaborative visual planning.

1. Oversee the accuracy and integrity of security identifiers (including ISIN, CUSIP, Ticker etc.) and manage complex cross-domain reference data encompassing organizational hierarchies and instrument-level attributes.

1. Demonstrated expertise in managing complex metadata architectures and generating high-level reporting for large-scale reference datasets; proficient in leveragingCapIQ Pluginsfor financial analysis andSalesforcefor data lifecycle management.

1. Exposure to Automation Technologies including SQL, Gen AI to drive process efficiency and reduce manual interventions.

1. Implement quality control measures to ensure deliverables meet established standards and stakeholder expectations.
2. Drives data quality through proactive issue resolution, Familiarity with SIX SIGMA, RCA techniques etc.
3. Nice to have: Experience with data cataloging tools (such as Collibra, Alation, Azure Data Catalog), knowledge of data cataloging concepts, and awareness of the importance of capturing data lineage.
4. Nice to have: Knowledge of semantic technologies (such as RDF, RDFS, OWL, and SPARQL) which are foundational for building Ontologies

Qualifications:

1. Master’s degree preferably in finance or equivalent.
2. Minimum of 5 years of experience in Reference Data, Market Data or finance, with at least 1 years in a managerial role.
3. Strong understanding of data management practices.
4. Proficient in automation tools and technologies, including SQL.
5. Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
6. Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
7. Implement quality control measures to ensure deliverables meet established standards and stakeholder expectations.