The purpose of the role is to work collaboratively within your team and across other teams in the business to deliver exceptional customer experiences. We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive individual to join our team as a Data Governance Admin Assistant. This role will play a crucial part in supporting the data and vendor management functions within our organization. The ideal candidate will have strong administrative skills, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to manage tasks related to data governance, vendor management, and project coordination.
Key Responsibilities:
Data Governance Support:
- Assist in the development and implementation of data governance policies and procedures.
- Collaborate with the data governance team to ensure compliance with data management standards.
- Maintain and update data catalogues and documentation.
Vendor Management Support:
- Support the vendor management lifecycle processes.
- Support vendor relationship managers and ensure adherence to the vendor management governance framework.
- Support the Vendor Management monthly meetings by drafting agenda and meeting pack.
- Monitor vendor performance and report any issues to the appropriate stakeholders.
Project Coordination:
- Act as a liaison between different teams involved in data governance projects.
- Act as a liaison between different teams involved in vendor management projects.
- Assist in project planning, tracking, and reporting.
- Coordinate project-related communications and ensure timely completion of tasks.
Administrative Tasks:
- Provide administrative support to the data governance and vendor management teams.
- Schedule and coordinate meetings, prepare agendas, and document meeting minutes.
- Manage and organize relevant documentation and files.
Practice Improvements:
- Ability to identify gaps and areas of risk in the vendor management and data governance functions.
- Ability to run small projects that aim to address gaps and risks.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Commerce degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Investment Management or Business Management.
- Management qualification (Advantageous)
- verbal and written communication skills.
- grade maths (or equivalent) passed with a B average.
- (Advantageous).
- organizational and multitasking skills.
- attention to detail and accuracy.
- communication and interpersonal skills.
- in using Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant tools.
Experience:
- in a Financial Adviser firm or Investment Platform business.
- in project administration and/or project coordination.
- 2 years’ experience in data or IT environments.
- in vendor management or partner management (basic).
- in solving complex problems for customers (internal or external).
- in building successful relationships and working collaboratively across departmental teams.
- at working in a fast paced, proactive and delivery focused environments.
Knowledge Required:
- basic understanding of project management concepts.
- with data governance principles and best practices.
- good understanding of vendor management principles and best practice.
- understanding of investment and life products.
- understanding of financial services regulation as it relates to investment platform providers.
- strong understanding of change management processes.
- broad enterprise-wide view of the end-to-end business and a relevant degree of appreciation for strategy, processes, and capability, enabling technologies and governance.
- passion for continual growth and self-development.