Data Management - Assistant Manager

Salary: £42,100pa to £51,480pa plus the benefits listed below.

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, and the role will require the successful candidate to be spending at least two days per week, or a minimum of 40% of their time in the Bristol hub.

You'll support with the capture and documentation of Metadata (data about data), building Data Lineage (a map of how our data flows from source systems through into our reporting and processes), building and running Data Quality Rules (logical rules to check that our data is of the quality we would expect) and supporting our diverse group of partners across Finance and the wider organisation, all to ensure compliance to Group Data Policy and external regulations.

Lloyds Banking Group is on a mission to build the bank of the future and we need your help to do it! Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we are redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture and our mindset are changing to craft a true agile, product-focused, engineering-led organisation.

Background

We’re the UK’s biggest digital bank, with over 18 million online customers. But there’s still so much more we want to achieve. Data represents a critical part of our business and our vision for the future. We’re investing more than £3bn into our people, technology and data to ensure we can make a real, positive impact to millions of customers, businesses and communities, today and tomorrow.

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 (FDAO) is a Centre of Excellence of Data encompassing activities across Data Engineering, Data Management & Culture, Data Science and Reporting with a purpose to Empower through Trusted Data. We're evolving our data & analytics offering, our ethos, and our capability to craft a truly data-led organisation which is at the heart of the Finance Strategy.

Passionate about the power to be sparked when combining data and analytics, with evolving 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 role/team

We'd love you to come and join us here in the Metadata & Compliance team – a part of our Finance Data Centre of Excellence. Our team represents a core component of Data Management for Finance, alongside Data Governance, Data Risk, Data Quality and Data Culture. Our teams work very closely together and have lots of crossover, so the role will involve elements of all these things.

The role will involve engaging and collaborating with our diverse group of partners across Finance and the wider organisation, to understand our most important processes and data, to allow us to create effective documentation of our data and its attributes and building data flow diagrams. Understanding the flow of data in Finance helps us understand where our most important data comes from and how it is controlled, so that we can ensure the quality for our end customers.

You’ll work with many different teams across Finance and other areas, such as our Central Data & Analytics Office (CD&AO) and 2nd line Risk functions. You’ll help make FDAO a fantastic place to work! You can support our agenda on inclusion, growth and having fun! There’ll be lots of opportunities for you to get involved, be seen and to make a real difference.

Through all of this, the underpinning thread is your role in Helping Britain Prosper.

A typical day in this role would include… What your key accountabilities will be:

• Working with key partners across Finance and other business teams to understand and document their processes.
• Utilising our strategic metadata repository tool Collibra and other tools, such as Visio, to document information about data and how it flows.
• Ensuring Data Controls are operating correctly and effectively.
• Running periodic reviews of our data documentation, to ensure that it remains correct and accurate.
• Reviewing inbound change projects and their impact on our team and activities.
• Helping to create guidance and key reporting information including PowerPoint and Excel.
• Supporting with delivering information into key data forums, ensuring meetings run smoothly.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Data Assessment – can analyse data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations.
• Data Management – can acquire, organise, protect, process and document data to fulfil business objectives.
• Policies & Procedures – can develop, monitor, interpret, and understand policies and procedures, while making sure they match organisational strategies and objectives.
• Risk Management - Identifies, assesses, prioritises, and manages risks in a production process while under supervision.
• Values and Behaviours - Actively exhibits and promotes the LBG Values and brings them into all work. Also participates in the wider enrichment of GFS & FDAO, and the wider Group, to be a great place to work.

It would also be great if you had experience of: 

Data Management skills and experience are useful, but experience of the Finance Business Unit and / or general experience with using, managing and analysing data is also valuable. You may also have other data experience – maybe some coding at home, or opportunities where you’ve developed a tool or a visualised dashboard at work.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

As a function we're committed to the principles of Flexible Working and want to find the right person for the job. We'll welcome applications from candidates interested in working the role as a job share or applying for the role on reduced hours.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you will be empowered to make a difference to customers, businesses and communities. Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you will continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We are focused on creating a values-led culture and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, together.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.