Data Specialist

At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work.As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients and superior shareholder returns.

Through our behaviours of telling it like it is owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role: Data Specialist - 6 months FTC/ Secondment

A key role of the Propositions team with the Individual Life & Pensions Business Unit is to maintain extract and analyse propositional data to support the analysis of customer outcomes. Under the FCAs Consumer Duty requirements there is an enduring need to develop new data and metrics to better understand our customers to evidence good customer outcomes and identify areas for potential improvements.

The role holder will also be responsible for providing data to enable the Independent Governance Committee and Pension Trustees and Managers to provide regular oversight and reporting of customers in workplace pension schemes. You will also be required to provide data input for regulatory reporting such as product reviews and annual value assessments along with any new propositional regulatory requests.

We are seeking a high performing data specialist with experience of working with large and varied datasets to support our conduct and oversight reporting for Propositions. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in supporting our existing customers by providing data to evidence good outcomes and ensure that regulatory expectations are being met.

You will be part of the Conduct & Enablement Team which is responsible for ensuring that our existing Propositions are operating within M&Gs Conduct Risk appetite.

You will also support other key strategic projects.

Key Responsibilities:

Preparing and completing data output and reports in line with the agreed schedules to support the following:

• Regular reporting to the Independent Governance Committee (IGC)
• Relevant regulatory requests from the FCA DWP HMRC etc
• Project scoping for regulatory and strategic projects
• Regular reporting for conduct risk e.g. Complaints MI
• Annual Independent Governance Committee (IGC) Benchmarking exercise
• Proposition/Product thematic reviews
• Annual Value Assessments
• Customer Outcome reporting for the Customer Committee
• Breach and Risk analysis
• Workplace Pensions BAU Reports such as the Retention Log Fund Benchmarking Funds and Charges and Quarterly Complaints MI.
• Highlighting any data findings clearly and succinctly
• Providing written and oral briefings to managers and other staff.

Key Knowledge Skills & Experience:

Essential:

• Ability to use QlikView and Excel to maintain manipulate and engineer data to support business needs.
• Good data presentation skills with the ability to present charts and tables using Power BI Excel and Powerpoint.
• Good planning and organisational skills to be able to handle multiple priorities.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the life pensions or broader asset management investment products.
• Knowledge and experience of the financial services industry its regulators and the current regulatory environment.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
• SQL and Excel VBA.

Location: Kildean

Work Level: Experienced Colleague

Recruiter: Phoebe Ewers

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender ethnicity age sexual orientation nationality disability or long term condition we are looking to attract promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions disabilities or neuro-divergent conditions. Being a Disability Confident Leader means that candidates who meet the minimum criteria of a job will be offered an interview if they opt in to the scheme when applying.

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