•Setting up the Data Management team and implementing BAU operations for the Asset Management function.•Managing a team of 8 people based in Edinburgh, Birmingham & London.•Supporting & implementing the new data management structure where a new data MDM platform and trading system is being rolled out.•Implementing Data Quality checks, validation and improvements on the new data AWS and Blackrock Aladdin platforms.•Ensuring documentation is in place to support new & existing processes.•Provide training and development of team members.•Identify process improvements, reduce manual effort of tasks by working with IT to build solutions.•Running BAU processes for setting up new Portfolios, securities (listed & private debt), supporting static data, credit ratings, Re-insurance assets, Risk Data, Party Data, Internal & External classifications and sectors & resolving data queries across multiple systems.•Asset classes covered include Fixed Income, Derivatives, Money Market Instruments, Funds, Equities.•Supporting the wider Data Office and CIO Operations teams.•Using JIRA to raise IT issues, support related queries & IT developments.•Supporting projects with data requirements.

•Managing a global data team based in Reigate, Chicago, Mexico & Manila.

•Robotic Process Automation (RPA) - Producing an RPA POC for 2 key processes, with view to grow further within MUFG Securities business.•Working with developers to review internal processes to improve productivity an process improvement flows.•The role is looking to identify cost improvements and efficiencies.•Liaising closely with internal management, technology teams & external RPA product & consultancy services.•Supporting an automated Calendar holiday feed to trading systems, resulting in reduced manual effort, errors, an enhanced audit and reconciliation process.•Providing ad-hoc support and knowledge to IDM Reference Data team as & when required.

•Managing a team of 6 people in London who are responsible for supporting instrument and reference data globally. Business areas supported include Front Office Rates, Repo, Structured Products, Equities, Funds, Derivatives, Credit & Fixed Income, Product Control, IT teams, Risk, Compliance, Operations & External Clients.•Supporting key systems such Murex, APEX, Gloss, Syn (for Counterparty, Legal Structure data), DTCC, Fidessa & Intellimatch) for reference & instrument data requirements.•Running business processes, such as managing exceptions queues in Gloss and MView for trade & data errors, running reconciliations, for example coupons, positions & legal entity / counterparties in key systems such as Gloss Vs Murex, updating trading Calendars in Murex, APEX, Gloss, Fidessa, updating trader books, traders information in trade, P&L and Settlement systems and ensuring trades feed downstream to all systems. •Support daily data requests, identify priorities and manage team’s daily workload. This includes legal data, SSI’s, Counterparty, New Funds, Setting up New Generators, Indices, Instruments, FX etc in all key business systems.•Supporting Markit EDM, the data model and data governance policies and procedures.•Ensuring new products meet data requirements and validate any new requirements.•Using business analysis and change skills in my role to support effective change.•Supporting business projects, upgrades and system enhancements. This requires testing and sign off.•Responsible for staff recruitment, training, support and appraisals, allocation to projects.

• Working in the Market Data team of Data Management Group supporting Capital Markets. • Duties include being responsible for validating and loading End of Day (EOD) pricing for, FX & FX Vols, Fixed income (Bonds,Bond Futures,Options). Additional support includes Rates, Equities & Derivatives. • Supporting the set-up of new curves in Murex for Credit and other asset classes. • Supporting queries on FX, FIxed Income, Rates and all asset classes covered by desk when required.• Completing business queries on data, including pricing related queries.• Testing Markit EDM platform and supporting the role out of a new Markit EDM Platform• Building out the Data Governance Model at MUFG Securities• Working closely with trading desk (FO), Quants,Reference Data Team & Product Control teams.

Working within the Instrument & Reference Data Services team within Operations.• Duties include supporting key clients which include Investment Banks, Private Banks, Wealth Management, Hedge Funds, etc.• Working on key projects within Reference, Instrument and Market Data Services.• Working with key Market Data suppliers to support the operations processes. Includes using services from Bloomberg, Telekurs, Rimes, Thomson Reuters, etc.• Support of EDM and IDM systems.• Includes Pricing, Corporate Actions, Instrument Master and Reference Data projects.• Defining client SLA's, KPI's, SOP's & MI information.• Creating training plans, documentation• Defining resource plans for On-shore & Off-Shore to support the current and future operations support model.• Completing Due Diligence to support Business Proposals.• Completing business analysis to support BAU processes and to support new Business Proposals to key clients.• Supporting regulatory changes and industry standardization.• Supporting key transformation projects.• Recruitment including building team, appraisals, administration and training.• Assisting with support and guidance to newly recruited team of UK Graduates.• Acting as a core specialist within my working domain.

Working within Change Management to define business requirements, business solutions for data and batch related work. This includes working to manage data requirements of the front, middle and back office.• Duties include defining business requirements (MOSCOW) & functional specifications, raising product changes, handing over to technical teams for implementation, completing testing via test cases in all environments. • Completing analysis of existing processes and implementing changes or improvements to existing processes.• Use Golden Source to implement changes to user screens, add new data and query database tables. • Use of SQL to run data queries, check data, and analysing information.• XML Schema understanding, changes and updates to support new business process requirements.• Working closely with all departments, including the business, external organisations and senior management to deliver small to large scale projects.• Understanding of the Asset Management business.

Working as a Senior Data Analyst for CMA Ltd. Working with all teams to support wide range of products, data solutions, in the CDS, Parsing, Syndicated Loans and OTC products.• Duties include managing the data team (US & UK based).• Acting as key contact for client queries, including analysis, identification and resolution of data.• Supporting account managers, Marketing & Management teams.• Working with IT teams to implement changes, bug fixes and regulatory changes and Index rollover process.• Working on projects such as new Third Party solutions, regulatory or industry changes• Documenting processes, implementing new processes and procedures.

Working within the market data commercial team on a cost reduction programme for market data service usage cross the FICC Markets business. Key achievements include major cost savings, product rationalisation and user market data profiles.• Duties include analysis of uses/department market data usage and associated work flows.• Reviewing any key application dependencies.• Completing user desk profiling to align specific market data products to role for new joiners.• Making cost savings on all third party, non real time services and real time exchange usage.

Working in CFO Change to deliver reference data solutions for a centralized Reference Data Hub. • Duties include business analysis, requirements, proposals and system data overrides functionality.

Supported a front office team that supported a Fund Position application. This held all data requirements for Fund Management including fund position, fund valuations, Asset Allocation, Risk, Fund Optimisation, Fund manager details, Instrument & Indices data & Corporate Actions. The data was used to support fund management decision making.

Managed Market Data for the business. • Duties include procurement, budget control, cost reduction, negotiation, BAU tasks. • Barclays Finance copied my Market Data support model as their central Finance Market Data model.

Supported clients to ensure they gained the most effective use of Firstcall, Datastream products. The role was client facing & supported many large known financial institutions.