13 Month Contract
Job Description Summary
This role produces timely and accurate gold-copy investment data per assigned data domain with a focus on operational efficiency and output quality. This role executes and analyzes complex data exception reports and quality control queries while collaborating across various teams to enhance operational processes. Manages static and dynamic data by performing cleansing, processing, and audit activities to ensure consistency, accuracy, and reliability across internal systems and third-party data sources.
Core Responsibilities
1. Produces timely and accurate gold-copy investment data per assigned data domain with a focus on operational efficiency and output quality. Completes complex tasks while working under tight deadlines, managing competing priorities, and analyzing multiple inputs to meet operational objectives. Researches and analyzes data exceptions with internal/external data suppliers and partners. Maintains system and business controls to ensure data integrity and approved data distribution to the enterprise.
2. Executes and analyzes a wide variety of daily and periodical data reporting and quality control queries in a timely and accurate manner. Provides advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution in identifying issues/trends in reports or source systems. Ensures data feeds are accurately loaded into systems and service levels are met. Escalates issues when needed to the appropriate support team, ensuring that data issues are resolved efficiently and quickly. Provides ongoing reporting to fulfill the needs of both regulatory bodies and internal partners, as needed.
3. Recognizes improvement opportunities based on process knowledge and recommends and implements proper solutions to gain efficiencies and ensure quality. Performs root cause analysis of data errors and provides short-term and long-term solutions for issues, elevating issues when appropriate.
4. Builds a strong network within the Data Management community and shares knowledge and experience. Proactively engages and works collaboratively with colleagues across various teams and the enterprise, to improve and sustain global operational processes.
5. Develops a strong and consistent knowledge of the funds and securities assigned and understands the details driving the global operational processes and the downstream impacts. Leverages product and operational knowledge to aid in the production of gold-copy data.
6. Provides project support by participating in acceptance and regression testing, system monitoring, and other project-related activities as needed. Monitors and ensures data quality by using existing business knowledge to create test cases and monitoring reports that ensure data accuracy and completeness.
7. Creates, maintains, and improves Data Management's procedures and workflows. Identifies and escalates potential control gaps in a timely manner to ensure resolution and to lessen impact. Adheres to various control standards to ensure compliance.
8. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
9. Manages a range of static and dynamic data including client account attributes, asset descriptive information, and security setup in databases.
10. Coordinates the maintenance of contracts, agreements, and relationships with third-party data vendors for accurate data feeds.
11. Undertakes control and audit tasks, ensuring centralized, consistent data collection and distribution across systems.
12. Gathers, validates, and inputs critical financial data while adhering to established standards and guidelines.
Qualifications and Skills
Special Factors
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position
This position is hybrid and would require you to be in our office three days per week.
Why Vanguard?
Vanguard is a different kind of investment company. It was founded in the United States in 1975 on a simple but revolutionary idea: that an investment company should manage its funds solely in the interests of its clients.
This is a philosophy that has helped millions of people around the world to achieve their goals with low-cost, uncomplicated investments.
It's what we stand for: value to investors.
Inclusion Statement
Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”
We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.
When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose: to take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.