Role Description
Job Title: Team Lead – Data Management (APAC Shift)
Location:
APAC Region (Shift-based role)
Department:
Investment Operations / Data Services
Location:
Kochi
Role Summary
As a
Team Lead in Data Management
(APAC shift), you will lead a team responsible for maintaining high-quality reference, pricing, and valuation data critical to investment operations. You will coordinate global handovers, oversee daily data flows, manage team performance, and support ongoing automation and improvement projects. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise in financial data, and the ability to collaborate across global teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and motivate a team to ensure timely, accurate delivery of data services.
- Set objectives, conduct performance reviews, and provide constructive feedback.
- Manage team workload, training plans, and professional development.
- Foster a collaborative, compliant, and high-performing team culture.
- Oversee APAC handovers and liaise with global stakeholders on queries and data exceptions.
- Monitor shared mailboxes and manage data requests via case management tools.
- Oversee daily data feeds, manual input, and exception handling for pricing and valuation data.
- Recalculate Private Equity valuations following events or corporate actions.
- Support automation initiatives, system upgrades, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Coordinate resolution of vendor issues impacting client valuation data.
- Maintain and validate key regulatory, pricing, and valuation data sets.
- Share expertise across the team and perform data quality checks and setup processes.
Must Have Skills And Experience
- Substantial experience in data management (e.g., instrument, pricing, index data) within asset management.
- Strong knowledge of OTC derivatives and their valuation methodologies.
- Strong understanding of corporate action pricing and event-driven data processes.
- Broad-based knowledge of investment products, asset classes, and processes.
- Excellent understanding of the impact of data quality on downstream systems and reporting.
- Solid understanding of portfolio accounting and client valuation reporting.
- Strong Excel skills (formulas, spreadsheets), with proficiency in Word and PowerPoint.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to liaise with internal stakeholders.
- Experience with Aladdin, S&P Markit EDM, T24, and data vendor platforms (Refinitiv Eikon, Bloomberg, ICE, Datascope).
- Xceptor Practitioner Certification with hands-on experience configuring live workflows.
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., IOC, IMC).
- Proven leadership and team management experience in a data operations environment.
Good To Have Skills And Experience
- University degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related discipline.
- High proficiency in advanced Excel features: macros, VBA, Power Query, SQL.
- Experience modelling OTC instruments using third-party tools.
- Past involvement in data-centric projects or system implementations.
Personal Attributes
- Highly organized, self-driven, and committed to excellence.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills with keen attention to detail.
- Calm under pressure with a focus on quality and timely delivery.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and manage flexible working hours where needed.
- Strong leadership presence, with the ability to guide and support others.
- Proactive and adaptable, able to work both independently and in a global team.
- Client-oriented mindset with the ability to manage internal stakeholder expectations effectively.
Skills
Data Management,Communication,Otc Derivatives
