VP, Data Management Non-Credit Risk

Role overview

Delivery planning and coordination

• Translate the approved mandate into validation plans, schedules, operating routines, evidence requirements and governance reporting.
• Coordinate assigned CDE and report validation activities with timely completion, quality review and escalation.
• Prioritise validation based on report criticality, CDE materiality, regulatory relevance, risk impact, overdue actions and emerging themes.

CDE validation and governance

• Oversee independent validation of CDE identification, scoring, prioritisation, documentation, ownership assignment, governance evidence and metadata records.
• Review assigned Data Sponsors, Owners, Processors, Consumers, Stewards and Custodians and the maintenance of ownership records.
• Challenge CDE relevance, business impact, quality parameterisation, control evidence, lineage, documentation completeness and material changes.

Report validation

• Manage validation of regulatory and management reports against approved sources, systems of record, datamarts, reconciliations, definitions, movements, adjustments, coverage, units, assumptions and approvals.
• Assess whether reports are verified, reconciled and fit for regulators, senior management and governance audiences.
• Review evidence for variances, trends, outliers, movement explanations, control testing and report approvals.

Methodology and quality control

• Apply validation methodology, evidence requirements, criteria, checklists and pass, conditional pass and fail definitions consistently.
• Review working papers, evidence packs, reconciliation outputs, control evidence and draft conclusions.
• Ensure validation files are complete, repeatable, auditable and suitable for internal audit, management assurance and regulatory review.

Issues and governance reporting

• Identify and escalate discrepancies, unexplained movements, CDE governance gaps, control weaknesses, recurring data issues and delayed remediation.
• Ensure findings include evidence, root-cause themes, owners, due dates, risk impact, remediation expectations and closure evidence.
• Prepare governance MI on coverage, findings, thematic weaknesses, ownership adherence, data quality and remediation status.

Team and stakeholder management

• Guide AVP and supporting team members through validation activities, evidence review, working papers, follow-ups and draft conclusions.
• Coordinate with report owners, data owners, Data Management, Risk, Finance, Technology, Operations, control functions and Internal Audit.
• Support continuous improvement in evidence discipline, validation quality, operating efficiency, issue tracking and governance reporting.

Health and safety

• Comply with Group health, safety and wellbeing policies.
• Promote a safe and inclusive working environment within the function.

Requirements

• Manage delivery of independent validation activities for Critical Data Elements and regulatory and management reports.
• Apply data validation and assessment methodology, evidence requirements, validation criteria, checklists and outcome definitions consistently.
• Review evidence for CDE ownership, governance, metadata, lineage, documentation completeness and control design.
• Assess reports against approved sources, systems of record, datamarts, reconciliations, definitions, movements, adjustments, coverage, units, assumptions and approvals.
• Ensure validation files are complete, repeatable, auditable and suitable for internal audit, management assurance and regulatory review.
• Identify and escalate material discrepancies, control weaknesses, recurring data issues and delayed remediation.
• Guide AVP and supporting team members in validation activities, evidence review, working papers, follow-ups and draft conclusions.
• Coordinate with report owners, data owners, Data Management, Risk, Finance, Technology, Operations, control functions and Internal Audit.