Location: Belfast
Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Hours: 40 Hours per week
Reporting to: Managing Director
It is our ambition to substantially grow our business internationally over the coming years. The Investment Compliance & Risk Team Lead will play a key role in embedding business controls and act as a driving force in our continued development. We are actively recruiting ambitious, sociable, intelligent individuals with initiative, a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills and analytical skills.
Company Overview
Funds-Axis is a young, fast-growing Regulatory Technology (RegTech) business. We combine deep regulatory knowledge and best of breed technology to deliver excellent customer service to our clients and partners. Our clients are leading global asset managers, administrators, and depositary banks to whom we provide investment compliance and regulatory reporting services. This market is growing strongly, reflecting increasing regulatory demands and the need for technology solutions. Funds-Axis also provides high-quality, low-cost information products to the asset management sector, including Global Exchanges and Global Disclosure.
Purpose of Role
We are a data driven business with high volumes of internally generated data and sensitive customer data. Externally procured data is also significant cost to our business. Our Data strategy is key to our product performance and our competitive positioning.
The Head of Data Management will have executive responsibility for the Organisation’s enterprise-wide data and information strategy, governance, control, policy development, and effective exploitation in order to drive business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Key responsibilities of the Head of Data Management will include:
Governance:Advising on, monitoring, and governing enterprise data. Owning the data journey for all data within our business and protection of all our client data and proprietary data;
Operations:Enabling data usability, availability, quality and efficiency, including ownership of business continuity and operational resilience planning in respect of data;
Innovation:Driving enterprise digital transformation innovation, cost reduction, and revenue generation;
Analytics:Supporting analytics and reporting on products, customers, operations, and markets;
Legal Compliance: Ensuring out compliance with laws, regulations and contractual compliance. Ensuring legal protection for all of our data and its usage, including compliance with contractual and regulatory obligations including in respect of Archiving;
Commercial: Vendor management in respect of our data subscriptions. Commercialisation of our proprietary data sets; and
Strategy: Spearheading a strategy to ensure the organization is getting the most from this valuable asset.
About You
* You will be adaptable and hard-working and demonstrate strong communication skills.
* You will deliver the support and the operational excellence in accordance with the Company Mission and Vision, and in a manner supportive of the Funds-Axis Values and Business Culture.
* You will have a strong understanding of financial services and financial markets data
* You will have a strong background in enterprise data management and security market data in the financial services domain, including data validation scrubbing, enrichment, data quality measurement. You will have 7+ years, experience managing teams.
* You will have strong knowledge and expertise technology and automations.
* Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders, including staff, board members, external partners.
* Proficiency in Windows, including MS Word, EXCEL, and PowerPoint.
* Ability to work independently and with professional discretion.
* Excellent writing, editing, grammatical, and organizational skills.
* Ability to work with a broad range of people including Board members, colleagues, Managing Director, staff, and others.
* Excellent management, time-management, and problem-solving skills.
The successful candidate must be well organised and able to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously. They will need to enjoy working in a fast paced and sometimes pressurised environment, often working on ad-hoc exceptional issues against significant time pressures.
Some of the core competencies are set out below:
* Operations Management skills
* Analytical skills
* Organisational skills – well developed ability to prioritise own workload and that of their team, resource effectively within set time constraints and multi-task effectively.
* Teamwork – well developed ability to work with team members and use strong inter-personal skills to manage internal and external stakeholders.
* Communication – effective communicator with experience of reporting to Board, clients, team members and managers.
* Initiative/independence – self-starter with ability to identify issues, mobilise resources and solve problems independently.
Why Choose Us?
In return for your commitment, we offer a strong remuneration package and significant opportunities to grow and develop as our business expands, including:
* 33 days’ vacation leave per annum (prorated if starting during the leave year). This includes all bank holidays/statutory days.
* 5.5% employer contribution pension
* Healthcare and life insurance
* Progressive maternity and paternity pay
* Work with a great team
* Travel opportunities
* Work with leading international finance companies
* First-class training package
* Excellent career progression opportunities
* Free, secure city centre parking onsite
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If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role, click on “APPLY” today, forwarding an up-to-date copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance.
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