Investment Data Analyst

At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns.

Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role:

The Investment Data Services team is responsible for delivering and overseeing business-critical data for stakeholders across a number of key applications. The team this role is in are responsible for the sourcing and verification of asset and reference data to support our investment teams across M&G.

The candidate will report directly into the Data Provision Manager and will work alongside other teams within Investment Data Services including our Market Data Services, Data Assurance and Valuations teams. The role will focus on the development, implementation and monitoring of key data quality controls to support a wide range of public and private asset data sets. The candidate will have good stakeholder engagement, effective analytical skills and a strong knowledge of asset data used by investment teams.

Key Responsibilities for this role:

• Verifying investment data from appropriate sources to ensure it is accurate and supplied in a timely manner against the business data requirements; ensuring fully supported within all required systems.
• Proactively analyse investment security and analytics data sets to identify and resolve data quality issues, to then define appropriate data quality controls to mitigate these issues for our investment teams
• Investigating data issues raised by our stakeholders, and taking accountability to ensure issues are resolved accurately and effectively
• Liaising with our key stakeholders on the quality of data we supply to them, and to then define new data quality requirements the Investment Data Services team can implement
• Lead the delivery and implementation of supporting new data requirements raised through strategic projects within the company
• Monitor and measure the effectiveness and performance of our existing data quality controls to ensure they are producing a high quality   
• Identifies and escalates data risks, supports the implementation and execution of mitigating controls, and operates within the M&G Operational Risk Framework.

Knowledge/Skills/Experience:

• Strong understanding of investment data, including instrument data across both public and private asset classes and how this data impacts key analytics used by our investment teams
• Maintain a strong understanding of up-to-date industry best practices, with an exceptional understanding of data management practices within Financial organisations.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
• Takes pride in working to a high standard, and thrives within a changing environment, showing initiative, drive and ability
• Strong interpersonal, written and communication skills – can summarise actions, findings and themes, and effectively engage with key stakeholders and management
• Demonstrates proactivity, enthusiasm, team working skills and the desire to make a real difference
• Relevant qualifications such as IOC / IMC are beneficial
• Systems literacy (Advanced Excel & VBA/SQL essential) and knowledge of Bloomberg, Refinitiv, MSCI Products and Aladdin
• Knowledge of sustainability data used by the asset management industry desired

Location: London

Work Level: Experienced Colleague

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions.  Being a Disability Confident Leader means that candidates who meet the minimum criteria of a job, will be offered an interview if they 'opt in' to the scheme when applying. 

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