Hybrid Vice President - Investment Data Services presso M&G PLC

We are M&G Global Services Private Limited (formerly known as 10FA India Private Limited, and prior to that Prudential Global Services Private Limited). We are a fully owned subsidiary of the M&G plc group of companies, operating as a Global Capability Centre providing a range of value adding services to the Group since 2003. At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns.

M&G Global Services has rapidly transformed itself into a powerhouse of capability that is playing an important role in M&G plc’s ambition to be the best loved and most successful savings and investments company in the world.

Our diversified service offerings extending from Digital Services (Digital Engineering, AI, Advanced Analytics, RPA, and BI & Insights), Business Transformation, Management Consulting & Strategy, Finance, Actuarial, Quants, Research, Information Technology, Customer Service, Risk & Compliance and Audit provide our people with exciting career growth opportunities. Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

• To work collaboratively with colleagues and take personal accountability to maintain and enhance controls you are responsible for to support improvement of the overall control environment, customers outcomes and a reduction in M&G plc's operational risk.

Primary Key Responsibilities (Top 3-5 KRA)

• Effectively liaising with the UK-based Investment Data Services Team and key internal and external stakeholders to collect and verify required data from appropriate sources, ensuring accurate and timely information is supplied to the business
• Knowledge of terms and conditions of various asset classes (e.g. Fixed Income, Equities, Private, ETD & OTC Derivatives) and how they impact key analytics used by investment decision makers in order to support their queries
• Understanding the different fund types that M&G manage (eg SICAVs, RAIFs, Seg Mandates) to support the fund data in core M&G systems
• Knowledge of sustainability / ESG data sets relevant to Asset Management
• Responding to all data queries from the business in a timely manner; investigating data issues and working with fellow Data Analysts and your manager to establish an appropriate resolution
• Analysing large data sets to identify data quality issues that may need to be escalated to the business and implementing ongoing data quality controls to mitigate these issues going forward
• Understanding the lineage of data published to stakeholders within the Investment Teams, ensuring the data is appropriately governed and understood. Running regular quality controls to ensure the completeness, validity, and accuracy of this data
• Challenging current processes, driving change, proactively realising opportunities for improvements across Investment Data Services. Utilising VBA and SQL skills where applicable to help see these initiatives through to completion
• Supporting the implementation of controls and procedures and documenting the same
• Supporting the implementation of controls within M&G’s central Investment Data Platform
• Ensuring data requirements are fully supported within all required systems

Additional Responsibilities :
• Coordination of workflow activities across the team
• Measuring effectiveness and efficiency of functions
• Able to work within established frameworks and procedures, with the freedom to interpret them to solve a range of problems
• Able to make suggestions for improvements to the work of the team, based on previous experience and knowledge of similar situations
• Implement appropriate systems, processes, controls and procedures as a result of Regulatory, Organisational and Strategic changes impacting the function.  
• Identifying and mitigating risks
• Ensuring appropriate disaster recovery and business continuity plans are in place
• To comply with regulatory requirements associated with all activities
• Handling Audit queries
• Daily monitoring of data quality
• Client Relationship management 
• Training & development of the rest of the team ensuring adequate cover and cross training for key tasks.
• A strong team player with an excellent attitude to learning
• Accountable for providing a quality service to stakeholders, using skills and knowledge built through significant practical experience and training
• Able to work within established frameworks and procedures, with the freedom to interpret them to solve a range of problems
• Able to make suggestions for improvements to the work of the team, based on previous experience and knowledge of similar situations

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G Global Services, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.