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Head of Investment Data Integrity

  • Pension Insurance Corporation
  • London, UK
  • Aug 19, 2024
Full Time Finance

Job Description

Role purpose

Investment Operations is an Operations function, supporting multiple Portfolio Management and Trading teams who invest into Fixed Income, Derivatives, Treasury and Private Equity / Private Credit products. Internally, Investment Operations contributes to the overall success of the business by providing a service to key Stakeholders including Investments Team, Finance, New Business Origination, Third-Party Management, Data Office and Change Management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the successful delivery of Investment Data.
  • Collaborate with business SMEs, particularly in Investments, to simplify, redesign and document optimum data processes/flows and related controls.
  • Oversee PIC’s Data Operations team, focusing on optimising data processes, ensuring data accuracy and integrity, and supporting data-driven decision-making.
  • Collaborate with Technology, Change and the Investments business units to align data management practices with the company’s strategic objectives.
  • Owning the relationship between the Data Group, Finance and the Investments & Operations divisions by representing the provision of comprehensive data management services and so ensuring high quality and timely delivery, risk control, efficiency, and on-going support to enable seamless delivery.
  • Conduct thorough analysis of current data structures, data issues, route causes and resolutions.
  • Responsible for defining and documenting the requirements for data management processes, rules, service levels, and responsibilities.
  • Effectively collaborates with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Investment Operations, Pension Operations, Finance, Risk, IT and Change teams.

Requirements

Technical

  • Experience working directly with an Investments Front Office - capturing new.
  • Strong technical knowledge of products such as Fixed Income, Derivatives and Private Debt Investments
  • Familiar with vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Murex, Moody, S&P, Fitch, MSCI or Aladdin
  • Experience of being a Data Leader and migrating from a technical role to a business/data leadership position
  • Experience of designing and delivering data management and governance capabilities in Investments or other Financial Services environment, ideally including asset management, pensions, insurance, and investments understanding

 

Personal

  • Ability to persuade and influence both directly and indirectly.
  • Ability to manage people and other resources effectively.
  • Ability to organise work to meet deadlines.
  • Ability to work within defined procedures as recommended by functional teams.
  • Commercial judgement

Benefits

  • 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Pension
  • Insurance for Travel, Private Medical, Critical Illness, Life Assurance and Income Protection
  • Save As You Earn (SAYE)
  • Bonus
  • Flexible Working
  • Dress for your Day
  • Cycle to Work
  • Fruit and snacks
  • Company events

And more

Pension Insurance Corporation
About Pension Insurance Corporation


About PIC:

The purpose of PIC is to pay the pensions of its current and future policyholders.

PIC provides secure and stable retirement incomes through leading customer service, comprehensive risk management and excellence in asset and liability management. At 30 June 2022, PIC had insured 293,400 pension scheme members and had £44.1 billion in financial investments, accumulated through the provision of tailored pension insurance buyouts and buy-ins to the trustees and sponsors of U.K. defined benefit pension schemes. Clients include FTSE 100 companies, multinationals, and the public sector.

PIC is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority (FRN 454345). For further information please visit www.pensioncorporation.com

In essence, we are a simple business: we take on assets transferred from defined benefit pension schemes through buy-ins and buyouts invest them, and use the cashflows generated from these investments to pay our policyholders’ pensions. PIC operates in the Pension Risk Transfer Market.

Our Culture:

PIC employs highly skilled individuals who all work to deliver a common purpose, supported by a culture of innovation and a strong set of values. Our success in hiring new people is due to our focus on creating a purposeful and stimulating working environment, where individual contributions are recognised within a collaborative, team-based effort.

Work Benefits:

We want our employees to be appropriately rewarded for their outstanding work, and PIC offers competitive remuneration packages and a generous range of benefits.

These include:

  • hybrid working model
  • competitive pension contributions
  • private medical cover
  • travel insurance
  • season ticket loans
  • access to 24/7 mental health support through an employee assistance programme
  • a Cycle to Work scheme and a dedicated secure cycle space at our London office
  • death in service benefit
  • save as You Earn (“SAYE”) scheme. Allows employees to build up blocks of shares in the Company. The scheme is open to all employees on an annual basis
  • discretionary family leave enhancements including up to 26 weeks maternity and 4 weeks paternity

Diversity and Inclusion:

Diversity of thought is critical to PIC’s success, helping us to deliver our purpose in an innovative way. PIC demonstrably values individuals regardless of background or experience. It is important for us that our people can discuss cultural and other issues that are important to them in a respectful and engaging way.

PIC has been the lead sponsor for the Actuarial Mentoring Programme for the past five years. The initial aim was to retain female actuaries in the profession, and it now has a wider D&I remit. We also have our own mentoring programme, offering opportunities to people across all professions. Our Aspiring Managers Programme has a target of 50% female participants.

In 2021 we created our own Early Careers Academy, which encompasses the 10,000 Black Interns Programme and our own Apprenticeship Programme. Both these programmes focus on attracting diverse talent.

PIC also partners with LGBT Great, Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment and Neurodiversity (GAIN) and RedStart, which is a charity providing financial education to children from disadvantaged areas.

We joined Women in Banking and Finance to provide our female talent with access to learning, networks, and development opportunities, as well as enabling us to learn from other member organisations on how we can continue to keep improving as an inclusive employer.

Workplace Initiatives

Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave?

Yes

Leadership development programs?

Yes

Mentoring programs?

Yes

Coaching programs?

Yes

Employee-led diversity networks?

Yes

Internal women’s networking groups?

Yes

Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage?

Yes

No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary:

Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave:

No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary:

Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave:

Gender pay gap reporting information (2021) (UK):

Average pay gap:

18.4%

Median pay gap:

6.8%

Average bonus gap:

1.1%

Median bonus gap:

23.4%

Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter?

N/A

Targets to raise the number of women in leadership?

Yes

Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership?

N/A

Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index?

N/A


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