Specialist, Account Data Management & Governance

Neubergersfocus on Enterprise Data Governance is rooted in its commitment to enabling smart data-driven decisions that uphold the firms core principles. Effective governance ensures data is high qualitywell-understood and readily available to support informed decision-making across the organization. This role owns account data quality controls and process discipline across the account lifecycle onboarding fund launchestransitions terminationsexception monitoring/resolution and technology implementation.

This is a hands-on role requiring day-to-day data maintenance work including researching and resolving data exceptions and breaks across systems (e.g.trading platformsData WarehousesVisualization SystemsandGolden Sources) and working directly with data owners to align fields and definitions across systems. Therole hasa growth path toward broader ownership ofaccount lifecycleprocesses and offshore workflow oversight as the function matures over 13 years.

Responsibilities

Data Quality & Exception Resolution

• Manually investigate and resolve mismatched account data across systems working directly with data owners to align fields and definitions.

• Download and reviewdata exceptionsdaily;and reach out to account owners to resolve breaks.

Account Onboarding &DataSetup

• Oversee the New Account teams daily new Aladdin account opening.

• Submitreviewand approveNew Account Application (NAA) updates

• Assist the New Account Opening team with openingInstitutionalIntermediarySubadvised and CIT Trust accounts.

• Manage account openings at custodian portals.

• Maintain Aladdin data through updates in ADAM and Blackrock Portfolio Toolkit.

• Establish consistent entity recordsand account reference dataacross systems.

DataGovernance and Standards

• Support theAccountDataSteward in definingand executingthe account data roadmap.

• Define and supervise governance of critical data elements.

• Add new Account Business Terms intoGlossaryto support enterprise data cataloging.

• Add new rules to the Data Platform Portal including rules thatutilizelookup tables.

• Review Data Warehouse discrepancies and drive resolution.

• Perform ERISAand other regulatoryflagcontrolsdata review.

• Performuseraccess screeningfor account master data.

Technology Partnership & Continuous Improvement

• Identifyand project manage account data enhancements across key systems and stakeholders.

• Submit stories to technology and attend grooming sessions to shape upcoming enhancements.

• Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) forsubmittedstories.

• Submit stories for newDatacticsrules to support automated exception detection.

• Collaborate on cross-functional projects where account data is used.

Stakeholder Coordination & Reporting

• Lead aweekly account data meeting with key stakeholdersto review open items and exception trends.

• Organize the AccountOwnersQuarterly Discussion/Update call providing updates on progress against the roadmap.

• Prepareand presentquarterlyupdatefor Enterprise Data Governance (EDG)leadership.

• Partner acrossfront office (Sales Portfolio Management) and control teams (OperationsFinanceLegal &Compliance Technology) and offshoreteams on account data initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree

• 5-8 years of relevant experience

• Experience with reference data security master or account master data.

• Experience documenting and mapping business processes.

• Project management and business analysis experience.

• Strong data analysis profiling and discovery skills.

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent work efforts independently.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Proficiencyin MS Excel Visio (or equivalent) and PowerPoint.

• Comfort with hands-on manual data investigation and exception resolution.

Preferred

• Hands-on experience with AladdinDatactics and/orVantageIQ.

• Data governance experience in financial services.

• Fund launch or fund onboarding experience.

• Investment operations background.

• 5 years of asset management experience.

• Experience with data cataloging tools (e.g. Collibra) or lookup-table-drivenrulesengines.

• Exposure to offshore team coordination.