Description
The Data Operations Analyst role will be responsible to:
- Identify, research and facilitate the resolution of data discrepancies within Wealth’s suite of applications
- Function as escalation point for Wealth while collaborating with Technology teams to resolve technical issues
- Soundly execute the steps associated with existing processes and/or controls to ensure that data quality is commensurate with established guidelines
- Review data consumed from various feeds to reconcile, research, and resolve daily data quality exceptions
- Support management and/or team members in the creation of new processes and/or controls to ensure that data quality is consistent with established guidelines
- Assist with development of new methods and streamline existing processes for collecting, storing, validation and visualizing data
- Conduct and lead data mapping exercises between multiple systems; review current mappings, dictionaries, and process flows for accuracy and completeness
- Assess/monitor and, if needed, troubleshoot data transfers – in particular: system integrations, web services, APIs, FTPs, ETLs and/or other feed transmissions
- Ensure established processes are working as expected such that data is properly procured, curated, and delivered to downstream systems by identifying and resolving data exceptions.
- Professionally and consistently communicate with internal clients, actively participate in meetings and provide concise updates and recommendations to management
- Partner with internal business colleagues to establish common data policies, and metrics to manage data and analytics consistently
- Collaborate extremely effectively with team members
- Contribute towards maintaining a strong risk management environment
- Support management with projects as assigned
- Adaptable, flexible and thrive in a changing, dynamic environment, managing multiple tasks at a given time.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of related experience in a data/ technology environment
- Experience with executing an effective data governance model
- Analytical mindset with ability to proactively identify trends and provide recommendations.
- Ability to work independently as well as within groups, as needed
- Attention to detail, including thoroughly completing assigned deliverables
- Excellent written and verbal communications to effectively communicate insights at both executive and individual contributor levels.
- Ability to plan and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
- Direct experience with one or more data loading and/or data quality tools
- Demonstrated ability to mine and analyze large amounts of structured or unstructured data
- Desire and commitment to regularly learn by staying up to date on current data tools and industry trends and being willing to continuously improve skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Finance Services, particularly the Securities/ Investments industry
- High proficiency with MS Office applications, Visio and/or Salesforce.com
- SQL, Python, machine learning or statistical programming skills
- Familiarity with functions related to data architecture, data stewardship and database administration
- Demonstrated ability to think critically and solve complex problems
Education
- Bachelor’s degree
- Related field (data science, data analytics, computer science, business administration) a plus
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