Lead I - Data Management

5 - 7 Years
3 Openings
Kochi

Shift: APAC Hours / Regional Coverage

What You’ll Do

In this leadership role, you will:

• Lead and mentor a team responsible for delivering reliable, high‑quality data services and managing escalations.

• Coordinate with global teams and external partners to handle handovers, address queries, and ensure alignment across regions.

• Oversee mailbox monitoring and ensure timely resolution of data requests using case‑management tools.

• Supervise the processing of daily data feeds, pricing pipelines, manual data inputs, and exception reporting workflows.

• Recalculate Private Equity valuations following corporate events, ensuring consistency and accuracy.

• Support system upgrades, automation initiatives, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for new processes or tools.

• Act as the central liaison for client valuation data issues and vendor escalations, resolving discrepancies promptly.

• Maintain and audit regulatory and pricing/valuation data standards (e.g., ensuring correct Fair Value levels in compliance with IFRS).

• Share subject‑matter expertise: perform data setup, reconciliation and quality checks, and document best practices.

What You’ll Bring

You should have:

• Demonstrated experience working with financial data (instruments, pricing, indexing) within an asset management or financial services environment.

• Deep understanding of the downstream impacts of data quality on portfolio valuations, client reporting, and regulatory compliance.

• Strong knowledge of derivative and OTC product valuations, including methodologies and sensitivities.

• In‑depth exposure to corporate actions, event‑driven pricing, and valuation adjustments.

• Broad familiarity with investment products, portfolio accounting, and client reporting workflows.

• Practical experience with systems like Aladdin, S&P/Markit EDM, T24 (or equivalent).

• Hands-on experience with market data vendors (e.g. Refinitiv Eikon & Datascope, Bloomberg, ICE).

• Certification or demonstrable experience with Xceptor (preferably Xceptor Practitioner Certification), and prior involvement in live‑production configuration.

• Strong technical aptitude: advanced Excel (formulas, macros, VBA), Power Query, SQL or equivalent scripting/ETL skills.

• Previous exposure to modelling OTC instruments using third‑party analytical or pricing libraries is a plus.

• Demonstrated involvement in data‑intensive project work, with exposure to requirements gathering, implementation and testing phases.

What Will Help

These attributes or credentials would strengthen your application:

• Degree in finance, accounting, business, quantitative discipline, or equivalent.

• Solid analytical, numerical and problem‑solving skills.

• Experience managing teams in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

• Strong communication (written and verbal): able to engage stakeholders at all levels.

• Ability to lead and influence cross‑functional efforts, with a constant focus on quality, delivery, and client service.

• Organised, proactive, self-motivated and resilient; able to juggle priorities under pressure.

• A service mindset: responsive to internal and external clients, with ownership of issues through resolution.

• Flexibility regarding working hours when project or regional demands require it.

Data Management,Communication,Otc Derivatives