Associate III - Data Management

Role Overview: As a Lead Data Services Manager at UST in Kochi, you will be responsible for leading, mentoring, and managing a team to deliver high-quality data services. Your role will involve resolving escalations, ensuring SLA adherence, serving as a key liaison with global teams and external partners, monitoring data inboxes, overseeing daily operations, recalculating Private Equity valuations post-corporate events, supporting system upgrades and automation initiatives, coordinating client valuation data workflows, and maintaining regulatory and pricing/valuation data. Key Responsibilities: - Lead, mentor, and manage a team to deliver high-quality data services - Serve as a key liaison with global teams and external partners - Monitor and manage data inboxes, respond to requests via casemanagement tools - Oversee daily operations such as data feeds, pricing input, exception reporting, and manual interventions - Recalculate Private Equity valuations post-corporate events - Support system upgrades, automation initiatives, and conduct UAT/testing efforts - Coordinate client valuation data workflows and manage vendor issue resolution - Maintain and validate regulatory and pricing/valuation data, establish Fair Value Levels (e.g. IFRS) - Share domain expertise, perform data setup, onboarding, and quality assurance Qualifications Required: - Prior, substantial experience managing instrument, pricing, index, or related data in an asset management environment - Deep understanding of data quality implications and how errors propagate downstream - Strong familiarity with OTC derivatives and their valuation frameworks - Experience in corporate action pricing and event processing - Sound knowledge of investment products, portfolio accounting, and valuation reporting - Hands-on experience with systems such as Aladdin, S&P (Markit) EDM, T24 - Practical exposure to data vendors (e.g., Refinitiv Eikon & Datascope, Bloomberg, ICE) - Xceptor Practitioner certified, with real-world configuration exposure in a live environment - Advanced skills in MS Excel (formulas, macros, VBA, Power Query) - Proficiency in SQL or similar data manipulation/query languages - Experience working on data-centric transformation projects About UST: UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider with a mission to make a real impact through transformation. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST partners with clients worldwide, embedding innovation and agility into organizations to touch billions of lives in the process.,