AFC Technology – Data and/or Records Specialist, AVP

Job Title: AFC Technology – Data and/or Records Specialist

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Location: Bangalore, India

Role Description

• The Compliance and Anti-Financial Crime (C-AFC) Divisional Data Office (DDO) sits within Anti-Financial-Crime (AFC) Technology – a 1000-person organization responsible for ~€90m annual change book of work across London and Bangalore to align with our businesses.
• The key responsibility for the C-AFC DDO is to partner with the C-AFC functions to deliver data and platforms to cover a wide range of Compliance and Financial Crime Risk Controls, including Transaction Monitoring, Trade Surveillance, Employee Compliance, Name List Screening, Transaction Screening and others.
• Reporting within the C-AFC Data Office, you lead complex data transformation and governance initiatives across C-AFC, driving strategic outcomes across data management, controls, lineage, data quality and regulatory remediation. Act as a senior advisor to business, technology and data leaders, shaping solutions and influencing delivery across multiple programmes. A key element of your role will be to support the build and management of the delivery function across C-AFC DDO.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy,

• Best in class leave policy.
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Delivery of data initiatives: Manage the end-to-end delivery of defined data management, governance and transformation workstreams, ensuring agreed scope, milestones, dependencies and outcomes are clearly understood and delivered.
• Planning and coordination: Develop and maintain delivery plans, coordinate activities across business, technology, data and change teams, and support the prioritisation and sequencing of work.
• Business analysis: Analyse business and regulatory requirements, document current-state processes, identify gaps and translate requirements into practical process, control, data or technology solutions.
• Analysis and problem solving: Apply deep analytical thinking to complex data, governance and delivery challenges, breaking down ambiguous problems, identifying root causes, assessing options and developing pragmatic, evidence-based solutions.
• Data governance implementation: Support the implementation and ongoing operation of data governance requirements across data ownership, metadata, Critical Data Elements, data lineage, data quality and controls.
• Regulatory and audit delivery: Contribute to regulatory, audit and remediation initiatives by coordinating deliverables, maintaining clear evidence and supporting the development of sustainable processes and controls.
• Risk and issue management: Proactively identify and assess delivery risks, issues and dependencies; maintain appropriate logs; drive actions to resolution; and escalate material matters promptly.
• Governance and reporting: Produce accurate, concise and decision-focused management information, status reports, governance materials and executive presentations.
• Stakeholder engagement: Build effective working relationships with stakeholders across C-AFC, Technology, the Chief Data Office and data-producing divisions, managing expectations and facilitating timely decisions.
• Process improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and improve data management and delivery processes, contributing to more efficient and sustainable ways of working.
• Team contribution: Provide guidance and quality review to junior colleagues, share knowledge and contribute to a collaborative, disciplined and high-performing delivery culture.

These activities ensure support ensuring the data required by C-AFC is complete, accurate and timely to support effective operation of controls to mitigate Compliance & Financial Crime risks.

Your skills and experience

• Relevant experience: 5+ years’ experience delivering data, governance, regulatory or transformation initiatives within financial services or another highly regulated environment; experience in Compliance and/or Anti-Financial Crime is desirable.
• Project and change delivery: Proven ability to manage defined projects or workstreams through the full delivery lifecycle, including planning, dependency management, governance, risk management and reporting.
• Data management knowledge: Strong understanding of data governance and data management principles, including data ownership, metadata, Critical Data Elements, lineage, data quality and control frameworks – ideally as they relate to Compliance and/or Anti-Financial Crime.
• Business analysis: Strong capability in requirements gathering, process mapping, gap analysis, problem definition and the development of clear business and functional requirements.
• Stakeholder management: Demonstrated ability to build productive relationships, coordinate across cross-functional teams and constructively challenge stakeholders where required.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving: Strong analytical and critical-thinking capability, with the ability to break down complex and ambiguous problems, identify root causes, challenge assumptions, connect issues across data, process and technology, and develop pragmatic, evidence-based solutions.
• Governance and reporting: Experience preparing high-quality management information, governance packs, status reports, action logs and executive-level presentations.
• Data tools and technologies: Familiarity with data governance, data quality, analytics or visualisation tools such as Collibra and Tableau is desirable.
• Regulatory awareness: Understanding of regulatory remediation – especially as it relates to Compliance and/or Anti-Financial Crime, audit evidence and control environments, with a focus on traceability, accuracy and sustainable outcomes.
• Organisation and execution: Ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain attention to detail and deliver high-quality work to agreed deadlines with limited supervision.
• Teamwork and development: Collaborative working style, willingness to share knowledge and experience supporting or mentoring more junior colleagues.
  

Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

About us and our teams

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We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.