AVP, Data Management

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Get to Know the Opportunity:

Voya Investment Management is seeking an experienced, highly motivated and analytical Assistant Vice President -- Investment Instrument Data Mastering. In this key role you are expected to set and implement the instrument data mastering approach, governance, quality, and delivery for the business. This position plays a crucial role in facilitating the data needs of the business through partnership with IT and external data providers. The ideal candidate will have a keen attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and a passion for maintaining data integrity in the investment domain.

The Contributions You'll Make:

• Design and Implementation: Drive the design and implementation of instrument mastering concepts, approach and processes with a strong emphasis on understanding the business need across various functions. Take the lead in shepherding projects end-to-end and partner with IT to decide on future state architectural decisions of the instrument data.

• Instrument Mastering: Perform instrument mastering across various sources and aspects of a financial instrument such as instrument types, sectors, issuers, reference attributes, cross-reference etc. Monitor and resolve data discrepancies timely. Responsible for ensuring new instruments and changes to existing instruments are timely identified and captured in the mastered instrument data, including ensuring nuanced aspects of each instrument are captured.

• Market Data Providers: Coordinate and liaise with our respective external vendors (e.g., Bloomberg, ICE) to source instrument level attributes based on the needs of internal stakeholders.

• Data Delivery for Production: Confirm that all data was received per daily and monthly requirement and that it was successfully captured in the instrument data mastering. Interact with IT to ensure that all data was received as expected and loaded completely and without incident to the data warehouse.

• Data Control and Resolution: Create and manage data controls that ensure the timeliness, completeness, consistency, and accuracy of the data received. Perform forensic data analysis to assess the issues and provide root cause analysis. Monitor and resolve data discrepancies timely, both as a tactical measure and long-term remediation.

• Data Governance: Ensure that the pathway of data is accurately documented with business specifications that illustrate change control, a data dictionary of available concepts, and lineage as to how that data moves and is transformed throughout its journey.

• Interface with the Business to Facilitate Dynamic Requirements: As the needs of the business evolve, new products are launched, and regulations change the team will need to be adaptable to be the entry point for those developing data needs. An understanding of the investment business and the lens through which each customer views the data is paramount. As new requests are raised, they must be analyzed, prioritized, and communicated to our business development team and in partnership with IT. This also requires communication to the business to help them understand how they are receiving data and where it comes from.

• Investment Solutions: Partake in and coordinate conversations with vendors and investment teams to propose and assist in proposing creative solutions related to security master data to support the investment business. Represent team with knowledge of key processes and systems to support developing accurate, sustainable solutions.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience preferably in finance, data, or information systems. A graduate degree is a plus.

• 10+ years of investment industry experience with a good understanding of investment data across a broad array of asset classes (Fixed Income, Equity, Derivatives, Alternatives, Funds, etc.).

• 3+ years of experience in product ownership experience.

• Advanced understanding of investment instrument mastering and extensive experience with security master systems and data management.

• Advanced experience with Bloomberg Data, data warehouse architecture and data mapping.

• Good familiarity with investment platforms and systems (e.g., Bloomberg AIM, BlackRock Aladdin) and reporting platforms (e.g., SQL Management Studio, Power BI, WebFOCUS). Experience with Snowflake is preferred, but not required.

• Highly effective communicator with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills (verbal and written). Capable of effectively communicating functional requirements to technical stakeholders.

• Excellent decision-making ability to manage a complex, ever-changing priority list and resolve conflicts with competing priorities.

• Strong problem solver. Ability to identify where focus is needed and bring clarity to business objectives, requirements, and priorities.

• Ability to embrace, adapt, and lead through change, foster effective partnerships, and drive effective collaboration with peers and vendor resources.

• Demonstrate high energy, resiliency, capacity and the ability to handle multiple priorities and execute.

Location: Atlanta, GA or New York City, NY

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Compensation Pay Disclosure:

Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.

The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Be Well. Stay Well.

Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

What We Offer

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

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Critical Skills

At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.

Reasonable Accommodations

Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.

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