Reference Data Product Engagement – Senior Associate

This opportunity is for you if you are a data-driven individual looking to drive results within the Chief Data Office Reference Data Product Engagement team.
As a Reference Data Product Engagement - Senior Associate in the Reference Data Product Engagement team, you will focus on driving business priorities and strategy. Strong partnerships with other global functional support areas are essential; these include technology, business support management, product business managers and various operational support teams. An ability to develop effective working relationships with partners, stakeholders, and senior management is critical; this role interacts with the leads across the Party Reference Data and Reference Data Product organizations, as well as with Business stakeholders.

Job responsibilities

• Supports the adoption of party & account reference data from onboarding to downstream processing
• Performs detailed business analysis to derive insights from large data sets
• Develops business cases as needed where technological infrastructure build / changes are identified
• Contributes ideas and solutions to help shape both tactical and strategic solutions
• Collaborates with Project Management Organisation (“PMO”) Leads to ensure clear documentation of meeting minutes, maintaining scorecards, project plans, RAID logs and other PMO updates 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of the financial services industry
• Knowledge of party reference data, client onboarding processes and downstream trade booking and risk management processes across the Markets business
• Ability to understand logical data models and work with data architects to define extensions to the strategic party and account data model
• Excellent data analysis skills; ability to analyze extensive sets of data using Excel
• Ability to build effective business relationships and communicate internally at all levels; candidate will be dealing with stakeholders of varying degrees of seniority across front office, middle office and technology team
• Effective change management skills with experience working on agile projects and writing user stories

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of other Lines of Business eg Securities Services, Banking, Asset & Wealth Management (“AWM”)
• Experience using Alteryx and/or Business Objects