Vice President - Product Data Operations - BFSI

Location :Mumbai

Job Description:

We currently have an opportunity to lead the Product Operations Data Quality & Risk team in Mumbai. This team of 6 FTE is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of Product data for the firm. In addition, will be responsible for monitoring Risk deliverables for global Products and Pricing team . The candidate will report to the Local Head of Products and Pricing in Mumbai and co-managed by Global Head in London and will have diverse responsibilities, including but not limited to the following:

Managing people including coaching, career development and performance feedback.

Prioritizing the workload of the team and to be able to contribute to the data quality rules set up by the team and ensuring that the exceptions identified are managed within tight deadlines.

Learning and performing functions in order to be able to manage and perform checking of workings performed by team members to ensure the highest standards of accuracy are reached.

Acquiring an intricate knowledge of the Firm- 's product data, flow of the data in the firm systems, impact of poor quality data, building the ability to understand the wider environment and question data integrity.

Identifying, defining and coordinating development of rules to monitor the data quality of securities reference data (incl. equities, listed derivatives and fixed-income products and pricing) against external data providers (incl. Bloomberg and Reuters) and direct exchange feeds.

Root-cause analysis of data quality exceptions to determine trends in the data, identify inaccuracies in external data providers' feeds and recommend opportunities to increase efficiency and productivity.

Identification and implementation of process improvements as well as contributing to the ongoing change projects impacting the team.

Analysing and improving processes, identifying and managing risk and guiding the team. As such communication and organizational skills as well as attention to detail and a readiness to escalate issues with a sense of urgency are of importance.

Identification, mitigation, escalation and reporting of potential/current risks.

Engaging with stakeholders across multiple business units (incl. trading desks, risk, production management, business analysts and IT development) and data vendors (incl. Reuters, Bloomberg and Smart stream) to capture requirements and communicate status on data quality initiatives.

Operating as a senior member within the Global Product Data Operations management team for Listed Derivatives and Cash Equity Product Data.

Ensuring the team adhere to Firm wide and Operations policies and procedures.

Support Risk Reporting Services that includes (but not limited to) preparing Risk metrics KRIs, KPIs, Depth Charts, BCP readiness, Risk incident management, RCSA's and any other Risk related deliverable on behalf of local and global teams.

Mandatory:

As a Vice President (VP) - 2 Years (Handling Reference Data and Risk operations)

OR

As a Associate Vice President (AVP) - 5 Years (Handling Reference Data and Risk operations)

Skills required (essential)

Finance Graduate ( B.Com/M.Com/MBA in Finance/Equivalent Degree in Finance)

Over 8 years of experience in financial services.

Good understanding of securities reference data (e.g. Equities, Listed Derivatives).

Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.

Ability to coordinate and efficiently manage people.

Stakeholder management skills.

Ability to quickly digest new information and learn new businesses and processes.

Think strategically and provide insight into how to improve existing business and technology processes.

Result-focused mindset.

Skills desired

Additional degree in profession courses CFA/CPA/CA will be beneficial.

Experience of working with remotely located teams and clients.

Good understanding of external data vendor feeds (e.g. Bloomberg, Reuters).

Experience of working with large datasets or using Extract Transform and Load (ETL) tools to analyse data

Ability to work well under pressure, lending control and order to a difficult or pressurized situation

Proficient in Microsoft Office

If you are interested please revert back to me immediately with your updated resume (in .doc format) along with the following details

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Balaji M | Senior Research Executive
S.P.E.E.D. Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
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