Executive Manager Data Quality

Lead data quality governance and control activities for critical information used across banking operations and transformation programmes. The Executive Manager will define data quality requirements, establish monitoring controls and ensure that issues are investigated, assigned and resolved with appropriate evidence. The role supports the accuracy, completeness and reliability of important data during migration, operational readiness and ongoing business activity. It requires experience in complex programmes and the ability to convert business needs into practical data governance standards, controls and management reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Define data quality requirements and control standards for critical data elements across relevant business and technology domains.
• Establish data quality dimensions, business rules, thresholds, ownership arrangements and monitoring routines.
• Design preventive and detective controls, dashboards and issue-management workflows to identify data weaknesses.
• Analyse material data quality issues, determine root causes and assign remediation responsibilities with clear closure criteria.
• Monitor the effectiveness of remediation actions and maintain evidence of testing, decisions and completed fixes.
• Support data migration, operational readiness and stabilisation by validating completeness, accuracy and reliability.
• Work with business, risk, finance, compliance and technology teams to embed data quality responsibilities into daily processes.
• Contribute to governance policies, management reporting and continuous improvement of data controls.

Requirements and Experience

• At least eight years of relevant experience in banking, financial services or related risk, finance, compliance, data, cyber or technology transformation work.
• Experience working on large or complex programmes and implementing data quality frameworks, controls and remediation processes is required.
• Ability to translate business requirements into measurable controls and governance routines is important.
• Relevant professional qualifications such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, FRM, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP or CDPSE may be beneficial, alongside recognised data governance or project credentials.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant area such as Business, Finance, Accounting, Risk, Law, Computer Science, Information Security or Data is required.

Skills and Competencies

• Data quality frameworks, controls and monitoring.
• Data governance, ownership and lineage.
• Issue analysis, remediation and evidence management.
• Executive communication, risk analysis and cross-functional leadership.