Data Issues Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job description

End Date

Thursday 01 May 2025

Salary Range

£65,385 - £72,650

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Are you passionate about the power of data? Are you fuelled by combining data and analytics with evolving technology, and want to join a team that exemplifies diversity, collaboration, and a curious approach with bold ambitions to transform the data culture across Finance? Then the Data Issues Manager role at Lloyds Banking Group on a 12-month FTC is perfect for you!

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Data Issues Manager (12-month FTC)

SALARY: £65,385 - £72,650

LOCATIONS: Bristol and Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper. In Finance, we're on the mission to empower through trusted data, and we need your help to do it!

Join our Data Management team in the Finance Data & Analytics Office as we evolve our data & analytics offering and culture to become a data-led organization. Our data mission is central to our Finance transformation strategy.

Our team champions Data Management across Finance and across other business areas, driving forward Group Data Policy and Regulatory compliance. We lead and develop LBG Finance metadata, including data dictionaries, data profiling, data quality rules, controls, and data lineage, using strategic tools such as Collibra and Ataccama. We support development of Data Management capabilities by implementing improvements and embedding strategy.

As a core component of the Finance Platform, we collaborate with the Chief Data & Analytics Office to embed key Data Management policies and frameworks and oversee the adherence to our Group Data policy. We provide key inputs into Governance packs and present at the various committees and forums. We demonstrate continuous learning and self-development, especially around emerging Agile and Systems thinking concepts.

Day to day tasks involve:

• Own the managing and assessment of Data Issues, in collaboration with multi-function Finance teams.
• Working with key Finance customers, Finance Platform leads, and other Business Unit Data Officers to agree activities driving the remediation of data issues.
• Ensure divisional compliance to the Group Data Policy and manage the attainment and monitoring of key data monitoring metrics.
• Support Finance to identify, report, and mitigate Data Management risks and issues.
• Drive forward Data Management activities collaborating with Finance colleagues, supporting the embedding of data accountabilities across Finance.
• Engage with Platform Teams supporting changes to Finance data.
• Collaborate with Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) to improve the operating model for Data Management.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities, and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

We need a motivated person with knowledge in data issues management and risk management. As a key role supporting data issues monitoring and reporting, this person will support, influence, and ensure remediation of data problems within Finance – driving the agenda for implementing good data practices. We want someone who is curious, dedicated, and thrives in a fast-paced work environment.

• Highly effective stakeholder management and influencing skills – effectively communicate and collaborate with a wide and diverse set of customers.
• Excellent communication skills adept at using a wide range of media.
• Data assessment and reporting capability – analysing data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations.
• Experience delivering to satisfy Regulatory data requirements, including responding to audits and internal assessments.
• A risk approach, ensuring processes and decisions are robustly governed.
• Strong track record of delivery and understanding how the Group delivers change with the ability to drive continuous improvement against an ever-changing landscape.
• Solutions-oriented approach and growth mindset, able to challenge and constructively debate key issues within Data Management.
• Collaborates at speed, adopting a can-do attitude, as Finance and the whole Group progress in the Data Management journey.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Expertise in the use of Data tooling e.g. Collibra and PowerBI.
• Knowledge of LBG data policy and external Regulatory requirements (e.g. BCBS239) is helpful.
• Familiarity with Finance Data and application of Data Policy processes and Frameworks within Finance.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive, and perform at their best.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition, or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities. With us, you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow, and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us, which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.