VP of Data Management & Analytics

The Role

As VP of Data Management & Analytics, you will collaborate with various business units and our regional offices to support data initiatives, focusing on aligning data utilization with business objectives and championing the use of data analytics to facilitate strategic decision-making. You will focus on understanding business requirements and use cases and identify opportunities to leverage data for enhanced business insights, enhance operational efficiencies and enable grow opportunities through the delivery of effective data solutions. In addition, you will work closely with the business units to resolve data quality issues, improve data availability, usability and literacy to achieve the desired business outcomes.

Job Responsibilities

• Engage stakeholders to identify and prioritise opportunities for data-driven improvements and efficiencies.
• Drive the development and implementation of data analytics solutions to address specific business challenges.
• Develop and conduct design workshops to collaboratively co-design use-centric solutions aligned to business goals.
• Design and build intuitive dashboards to communicate actionable insights that can drive decision making.
• Ensure data solutions adhere to data management and data governance policies and best practices.
• Drive the adoption of BI and analytics tools and guiding on the integration of analytics into strategic planning and operational processes.
• Collaborate with business units to define and specify data requirements for analytics projects.
• Oversee the data pipelines for the central data HUB and working with IT to maintain the roadmap.
• Advocate the use for Data HUB as our centralised governed data assets to support critical business reporting and analytics needs.
• Identify data quality issues and working with cross functional teams to resolve the issues.
• Improve data proficiency through hands-on support and training to ensure the users can leverage data effectively and drive continuous improvement.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with min. 8 years of experience in Data Science, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Data Management or MIS/Reporting.
• Subject Matter Expertise along with extensive hands-on experience in driving the development and implementation of data analytics solutions specifically within banking and financial institutions.
• Strong business acumen along with advanced technical competencies and a track record in delivering strategic data analytics initiatives.
• Proficient in BI tools such as QlikView, Tableau, Power BI etc with proven experience in developing interactive, effective and insight-driven management dashboards and business reports.
• Strong Python/R programming skills and expertise in developing machine learning models.
• Experience in data management, data integration, data governance and ability to work across departments and business units/functions effectively.
• Experience in conducting data discovery, performing root cause analysis and making recommendations for data quality issues resolution.
• Experience in managing metadata and master data management.
• Strong knowledge of data management and data governance framework, UI/UX principles and data analytics best practices.
• Strong experience on data governance tool such as Collibra, Informatica, Alation etc will be an added advantage.
• Excellent strategic thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication, presentation and influencing skills.
• Strong collaboration and project management skills.