Asset Management Data Product Owner, Investment Management and Risk

Investment Management and Risk Data Product Owner - ISS Data (Associate Director)

About team

The Technology function provides IT services to the International business, globally. These include the development and support of business applications that underpin our revenue, operational, compliance, finance, legal, marketing and customer service functions. The broader organisation incorporates Infrastructure services that the firm relies on to operate on a day-to-day basis including data centre, networks, proximity services, security, voice, incident management and remediation.

The ISS Technology group is responsible for providing Technology solutions to the Investment Solutions & Services (ISS) business (which covers Investment Management, Asset Management Operations & Distribution business units globally)

The ISS Technology team supports and enhances existing applications as well as designs, builds and procures new solutions to meet requirements and enable the evolving business strategy.

As part of this group, a dedicated ISS Data Programme team has been mobilised as a key foundational programme to support the execution of the overarching ISS Strategic Change agenda, and broader 2030 Vision.

About your role

• The Investment Data Product Owner role is instrumental in the creation and execution of a future state design for investment and risk data across key business areas. The successful candidate will have an in depth knowledge of all data domains that services Investment management, risk and attribution capabilities within the asset management industry.
• The role will sit within the ISS Delivery Data Analysis chapter and fully aligned to deliver cross functional ISS Data Programme in Technology, and the candidate will leverage their extensive industry knowledge to build a future state platform in collaboration with Business Architecture, Data Architecture, and business stakeholders.
• The role is to maintain strong relationships with the various business contacts to ensure a superior service to our clients.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership and Management:

• Lead the Investment data outcomes and capabilities for the ISS Data Programme.
• Realign existing resources and provide coaching and line management for junior data analysts within the chapter, influence and motivate them for high performance.
• Define the data product vision and strategy with end-to-end thought leadership.
• Lead data product documentation, enable peer-reviews, get analysis effort estimation, maintain backlog, and support end to end planning.
• Be a catalyst of change for improving efficiencies and innovation.

Data Quality and Integrity:

• Define data quality use cases for all the required data sets and contribute to the technical frameworks of data quality.
• Align the functional solution with the best practice data architecture & engineering.

Coordination and Communication:

• Senior management level communication to influence senior tech and business stakeholders, get alignment on the roadmaps.
• Coordinate with internal and external teams to communicate with those impacted by data flows.
• Collaborate closely with Data Governance, Business Architecture, and Data owners etc.
• Conduct workshops within the scrum teams and across business teams, effectively document the minutes and drive the actions.

About you

• Strong leadership and senior management level communication, internal and external client management and influencing skills.
• At least 15 years of experience as a senior business/technical/data analyst within technology and/or business change delivering data led business outcomes within the financial services/asset management industry.
• 5-10 years as a data product owner adhering to agile methodology, delivering data solutions using any industry leading data platforms such as Oracle, Snowflake, State Street Alpha Data, Refinitiv Eikon, SimCorp Dimension, BlackRock Aladdin, FactSet etc.
• In Depth Knowledge of how data vendor solutions such as Rimes, Bloomberg, MSCI, FactSet support Investment, Risk , Performance and Attribution business needs.
• Having a commercial bent of mind to rationalize market data usage to save costs
• Outstanding knowledge of data life cycle that drives Investment Management such as research, order management, trading , risk and attribution.
• In Depth expertise in data and calculations across the investment industry covering the below.

• Financial data:

  This includes information on asset prices, market trends, economic indicators, interest rates, and other financial metrics that help in evaluating asset performance and making investment decisions.

• Asset-specific data:

  This includes data related to financial instruments reference data like asset specifications, maintenance records, usage history, and depreciation schedules.

• Market data:

  This includes data like security prices, exchange rates, index constituent and licensing restrictions on them.

• Risk data:

  This includes data related to risk factors such as market risk, credit risk, operational risk, and compliance risk.

• Performance & Attribution data:

  This includes data on fund performance returns and attribution using various methodologies like Time Weighted Returns, Transaction based performance attribution.
• Should possess Problem Solving, Attention to detail, Critical thinking.
• Technical Skills: Prior experience (no hands on needed) of SQL, Advanced Excel, Python, ML (optional) and knowledge of end-to-end tech solutions involving data platforms.
• Knowledge of data management, data governance and data engineering practices.
• Knowledge of data modelling techniques like dimensional, data vault etc.
• Willingness to own and drive things, collaboration across business and tech stakeholders.