Chief Data Officer

**Chief Data Officer** **Location**: Our core centres are in Belfast, Northern Ireland and in Chennai, India. However, location is flexible with **work from home** options. **Salary**: Excellent - Negotiable, DOE **Contract**: Permanent, Full Time In return for your commitment, we offer a strong remuneration package and significant opportunities to grow and develop as our business expands, including: - 5.5% employer contribution pension - Healthcare and life insurance - Progressive maternity and paternity pay - Work with a great team - Travel opportunities - Work with leading international finance companies - First-class training package - Excellent career progression opportunities - Free, secure city centre parking onsite Funds-Axis’ Mission is to be routinely identified as a leading trusted provider of global funds technology to the Investment Management industry. Our Vision is to transform the industry approach to investment compliance, risk, and regulatory reporting by offering a highly efficient and secure, multi-modular technology platform backed up by the highest levels of expert regulatory support and service. Our clients are leading global asset managers, administrators, and depositary banks. This market is growing strongly, reflecting increasing regulatory demands and the need for technology solutions. As a result of continued growth, we are actively recruiting an ambitious, sociable, intelligent Chief Data Officer with initiative, a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills and analytical skills. Our Core Values and company Culture revolves around Innovation through Collaboration, Expertise, Pride in our Excellence of Service, Trust, and Integrity. It is our ambition to substantially grow our business internationally over the coming years. **Chief Data Officer - The Role**: We are a data driven business with high volumes of internally generated data and sensitive customer data. The Chief Data Officer will have executive responsibility for the Organisation’s enterprise-wide data and information strategy, governance, control, policy development, and effective exploitation to drive business outcomes. **Chief Data Officer - Key Responsibilities**: - Governance: Advising on, monitoring, and governing enterprise data. Owning the data journey for all data within our business and protection of all our client data and proprietary data. - Operations: Enabling data usability, availability, and efficiency. - Innovation: Driving enterprise digital transformation innovation, cost reduction, and revenue generation. - Analytics: Supporting analytics and reporting on products, customers, operations, and markets. - Legal Compliance: Ensuring out compliance with laws, regulations, and contractual compliance. Ensuring legal protection for all our data and its usage. - Commercialisation: Commercialisation of our proprietary data sets; and - Strategy: Spearheading a strategy to ensure the organisation is getting the most from this asset. **Chief Data Officer - Personal Specification**: - You will be adaptable and hard-working and demonstrate strong communication skills. - You will deliver the support and the operational excellence in accordance with the Company Mission and Vision, and in a manner supportive of the Funds-Axis Values and Business Culture. - You will have a strong understanding of financial services and financial markets data - You will have a string background in enterprise data management, including data validation scrubbing, enrichment, data quality measurement. You will have 7+ years, experience managing teams. - You will have strong knowledge and expertise technology and automations. - Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders, including staff, board members, external partners. - Proficiency in Windows, including MS Word, EXCEL, and PowerPoint. - Ability to work independently and with professional discretion. - Excellent writing, editing, grammatical, and organisational skills. - Ability to work with a broad range of people including Board members, colleagues, Managing Director, staff, and others. - Excellent management, time-management, and problem-solving skills. They will need to enjoy working in a fast paced and sometimes pressurised environment, often working on ad-hoc exceptional issues against significant time pressures. **If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role, click on "APPLY" today, forwarding an up-to-date copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance.** No agencies please.