Head of Data Management - #1802356

JOB TITLE: Head of Data Management

SALARY: £114,810 - £135,070

LOCATION(S): Bristol & Edinburgh

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office site.

About this opportunity

Group Finance is central to Lloyds Banking Group and data is a key enabler in satisfying the needs of our internal and external customers. The Finance Analytics & Data Office purpose is to Empower through Trusted Data. We're evolving our data & analytics offering, our culture, and our attitude to craft a truly data-led organisation. Our data mission is at the heart of the Finance strategy.

Passionate about the power to be fuelled when combining data and analytics, with evolving AI technology? Want to join a team that role models diversity, collaboration, a curious approach, and will be bold as we transform data across Finance? If the answer to these questions is yes, then read on.

The Head of Data Management role plays a pivotal role in shaping, governing, and ensuring that we have the right controls across our data landscape. Leading across the function in identifying and resolving our data issues to enable trust in the data we use and produce. Leading data risk reduction and effective control improvement plans so that we meet regulatory requirements. Leading the cultural and literacy uplift of the Finance function, empowering colleagues to learn how to optimise the data they use.

Day to day you'll:

• Lead the Finance Data Management team working with other leaders across the Group with key partnerships developed between Chief Data & Analytics Office and other data teams across the group
• Be responsible for the implementation of a ground-breaking operating model for Data Management across Finance including the Finance platform.
• Lead embedding of principles set out by the Group's Data Producer and Consumer Model across the Finance function.
• Supervise and assess the data risk across Finance crafting proactive insight to ensure controls are effective.
• Ensure that Finance effectively develops and implements appropriate data quality strategies to support the strategic ambition of automated retrieval of accurate data.
• Coordinate the delivery of controls and documentation for our most critical data, including leading all aspects of BCBS239 / Solvency II regulations in Finance.
• Build insight that supervises the validity and accuracy of data that underpins the data board metrics and key reports.
• Engage with Chief Data Analytics Office to develop frameworks, standards, and guidelines to support data quality culture in Finance.
• Drive data literacy within our Finance colleagues, driving awareness and engagement through our Finance Data Committee and structured learning.

About us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need

• You'll need to be a dynamic and adaptable leader who will be responsible for identifying the business needs, crafting initiatives, and delivering ground-breaking solutions.
• Possess an intellectual curiosity in your outlook; seek to innovate and learn quickly from failures.
• You should be someone who can effectively communicate and influence Executive and Board level collaborators, for instance by preparing papers for senior management.
• You're highly experienced in delivering through others, comfortable working in a matrix structure, and using your networks to enable delivery.
• Balance assertiveness with cooperation to enable truly collaborative working partnerships to achieve shared outcomes.
• Dedication to promoting diversity in the team, prioritising inclusion and ongoing learning.

You'll also need to evidence skills in the below:

• Data Management: Designs and defines strategies, policies, procedures, and standards to scale the operationalisation of data management in the Group. Ensures adherence to frameworks to achieve the required level of consistency, quality, and protection to meet business needs.
• Data Controls: Understand the underlying assumptions of data control methods. Critically evaluate the validity of data control strategies. Design and conduct robust data control processes. Optimise and refine data control techniques. Provide insights.
• Data Literacy: Communicates with data confidently and effectively and uses data for decision making. Plans, advises, and drives initiatives for data literacy cross-functionally, including accessibility of data and analytics across the Group.
• Data Story Telling: Delivers powerful messages via various skills to engage diverse audiences, securing dedication.
• Nurturing Key Relationships: Applying personal influence and partner positioning to cultivate and maintain long-term relationships at all levels. Addressing customer conflict, fostering consensus, and influencing outcomes.

About working for us:

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We'd love to hear from you!