Our Purpose
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Title and Summary
Manager Risk MI & Data Governance
Overview:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Enterprise Risk Management Team in the Vocalink Limited 2nd Line Risk Management Function.
Vocalink Limited enables the payments of 90% of salaries, 70% of utility bills, most ATM transactions, and every cheque cleared in the UK. The successful candidate will become part of a high functioning team, dedicated to delivering a robust, secure and resilient service to 60+million citizens every day with transactional volume of 11 billion/year and total annual transactional value in excess of GBP6 Trillion.
The appointee will be responsible for ensuring rigor, consistency, and efficiency in Vocalink Limited Risk MI and related Dashboards through:
• Design of appropriate governance, methodology, processes, and procedures to enable the effective delivery and provide requisite rigour over Risk MI and Dashboards reported internally and externally;
• Production of quality Risk related MI and Dashboards for management and committee / board reporting; and
• Effective Data Management Governance.
Key Responsibilities:
• Risk MI & Reporting Delivery: Delivery of Risk MI and Dashboards for VLL, including Enterprise-level Risk MI and Dashboards (Top Risks, Risk Evolution, Risk Events, and Risk Appetite Metrics), Risk Outcome Metrics Dashboard, and RPSO Risk MI and Dashboards for RPSO Committees.
• Dashboard Automation & Continuous Reporting Enhancement: Develop and maintain automated Risk Dashboards (e.g. Power BI) for internal and external reporting, ensuring these correctly report underlying data. Drive Continuous improvement of Risk MI and Dashboards to meet evolving regulatory and customer expectations.
• Ad-Hoc Risk Analysis: Deliver ad-hoc reporting development and data analysis to provide meaningful and value-add insights to Executive Management and Risk Owners (e.g. Data Quality).
• Risk Management Compliance Reporting: Develop and produce ‘Policy and Standards Compliance Metrics’ to report compliance and level of embedding across VLL Functions.
• Reporting & Data Management Governance: Maintain Risk MI and Dashboard Governance, including Reporting and Metric Dictionary, Key Data Elements (KDEs), and Data Lineage Mapping.
All About You (Skills & Experience):
• Experienced in the development and production of Risk MI and Dashboards, with data analytics experience.
• Technical knowledge and proficiency in use of PowerBI (or equivalent tooling) to produce Risk MI, reporting, and dashboards and drive automation of reporting.
• Experience in developing leading and lagging metrics to monitor outcomes (e.g. data quality, policy compliance).
• Ability to synthesis data into meaningful insights for Management.
• Communication - Requires effective communication skills – both written and oral - to deal with diverse stakeholder base (internal and external, senior and junior), acting as a bridge as well as guide for the implementation of new capabilities.
• Decision-Making & Problem Solving - Strong aptitude in decision-making, problem solving, and applying judgement to complex topics.
Desired:
• Knowledge and understanding of Risk Management.
• Experience of working with Data Lakes.
• Experience within Critical National Infrastructure responsible organizations.
• Experience of working with other regulatory bodies (non-UK).
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
