DWS - Enterprise Data Management Specialist - Senior Analyst

Job Description:

Job Title: Enterprise Data Management Specialist - Senior Analyst
Division: DWS
Location: Manila

Set-Up: #LI-Hybrid

Overview:

DWS is one of the world’s leading investment management organisations, offering individuals and institutions traditional and alternative investments across all major asset classes.  It is undergoing a period of substantial and exciting change. DWS listed as a public company on the Frankfurt stock exchange in March 2018. DWS is now undertaking a significant transformation to implement state-of-the-art infrastructure aligned to the needs of an asset manager.

The CFO Division of DWS has presence in Frankfurt, London, New York and Asia and is responsible for ensuring the sound risk management and financial governance of DWS.  The CFO Division comprises Risk, Investor Relations, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Integrated Reporting, Regional CFO teams, Tax, Capital & Liquidity Management, Finance Director teams for the Investment Platform, Coverage and Infrastructure functions and the COO team.

Key Responsibilities:

As part of the Enterprise Data Management Team for DWS, this role will help drive the implementation of DWS divisional data strategy, data governance processes and standard operating procedures, data governance framework including named roles and responsibilities, integration of data sources with data quality and workflow tools, implementation of data product development and maintenance (DPDM) processes including named roles and responsibilities. Key components of the role will be:

• Data Quality Management – Define, implement, and maintain data quality metrics, and measure data quality.
• Data Issue Management – capture, analyse, track and close structural issues associated with data and MDS outputs.
• Data Access Management – capture, approve, and perform regular attestation on access to division owned data.
• Data Lineage Management – capture, maintain and perform regular attestation on data lineage for division owned MDS items.
• Data Product Inventory Management – capture, maintain, and perform regular attestation on divisional products.
• Data Model Management – Develop and maintain the logical data models for division owned domain and data classes.
• Data Integration and Mapping – Define data integration and mapping standards for division owned domains and data classes.
• Data Strategy Implementation – manage data strategy implementation at a divisional level and execute change management.
• Establishing relationship and working collaboratively across other DWS functions to ensure alignment on data management strategies with organizational goals and to promote data-driven culture across organization.
• Support and align with DWS Head of CFO Strategy to ensure organizational objectives on enterprise data management are met.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Data Management experience in developing and implementing plans, policies, and practices that control, protect and optimize the value of data assets.
• Experience in defining and operating a management framework of processes and working practices to deliver the organization’s quality objective (Data Quality Management).
• Experience in planning, implementing, and controlling the full life cycle of the data.
• Experience in Data Architecture and Modelling is a plus.
• Experience in Data Integration, Data Mapping and Data Lineage management.
• Experience in Data Product Development and maintenance.
• Experience in EDM Platforms e.g. Collibra is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written with experience in explaining complex processes and issues clearly and concisely to Finance and non-Finance stakeholders.
• Structured, organized, and results-oriented approach, demonstrating a high level of diligence and attention to detail.
• Detailed knowledge of accounting and other Finance processes is a plus.
• Amenable to midshift - 2pm to 11pm

DWS is an equal opportunity employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital / civil partnership status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin, colour, sexual orientation, or disability.

Please let us know if you require any adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any concerns about the application process, please contact your recruiter.