Risk and Finance Data Management COE Lead, Director

Join us as a Risk and Finance Data Management COE Lead

• Gain valuable exposure and hone your data management expertise as you advance your career in this challenging role
• You’ll be leading our Risk and Finance Data Control function and performing finance data control activities locally, leading a group of data specialists and helping to enable the function’s strategy
• It’s an opportunity to support and deliver the in-country strategy and work closely with stakeholders and to build your network of contacts
• We're offering this role at director level

What you'll do

As a Risk and Finance Data Control Lead, you’ll be embedding and developing the Risk and Finance Data Control operating model, working in partnership with the Finance Data Controller, teams across the function and other parts of the business including Data & Analytics and teams in technology. You will also work with various GPO owners across Finance as we develop and embed the Global Process Ownership model.

Key activities include:

• Providing oversight over the activities of the Risk and Finance Data Control function
• Management of operational activities for finance that deliver data management controls across a number of systems and processes including Oracle and AWS applications
• Support development of our reference data strategy to align and optimise the consumption of reference data to simplify processes, reconciliation and control for Finance
• Support to implement the data ownership model for key data elements, working with senior stakeholders across the hub and wider bank
• Driving data remediation for data quality issues
• Leading strategic initiatives for the area supporting Bank and Finance wide strategic change programmes as a business SME / lead
• Embed a culture of transformation within data management by developing and usage of process metrics to drive simplified business outcomes

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need experience of leading cross functional initiatives and change activities as well as a proven technical background illustrating governance, strategy and management. You'll also need the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels.

Additionally, you’ll need:

• The ability to communicate in a non technical way which gathers consensus and support
• Strong analytical and planning skills
• The ability to focus on customer and stakeholder needs while developing the risk data service
• Knowledge and experience of the relevant legal entity and regulatory requirements
• The ability to understand complex data issues and track them to resolution
• Relevant accountancy qualification or extensive financial services experience