Data & Analytics Senior Manager

Responsible for ensuring end-to-end data delivery within the Investments team, working with internal & external partners to ensure a single source of truth across all solutions., We have an exciting opportunity to lead Scottish Widows' Investment Operations Data & Analytics team as a Senior Manager within our Chief Investments Office. This is a varied role where you'll be responsible for leading our investments data and analytics team, providing a single source of truth for the Investments team including Customer & Shareholder funds and ensuring policy and decision-making is underpinned by science, rigorous evidence and sound analysis to help advise solutions supporting our customers. Building upon the single source, you'll work collaboratively with a wide group of colleagues across Scottish Widows to coordinate, streamline and automate reporting for customers, committees and colleagues, allowing for 'near' real-time analysis and appropriate feedback loops on customer and portfolio outcomes. We're looking for someone who can own the development of deep analytical functionality, migrating from a descriptive environment to diagnostic and predictive functionality, drawing upon the wider data environment available to Scottish Widows & Lloyds Banking Group. What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for ensuring end-to-end data delivery within the Investments team, working with internal & external partners to ensure a single source of truth across all solutions.
• Engaging with key internal customers to automate delivery of reporting and analytics as required by the business.
• Development of analytical toolsets for the purpose of business and portfolio optimisation.
• Makes a significant improvement on short-term or long-term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions.
  
  Experience of data analysis under the governance environment consistent with the regulated financial services.
• Experience of leading and delivering required outcomes for a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
• The ability to identify and evaluate complex expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to meet business needs.
• Experience of leading & developing data analytic teams and building strong networks across organisation.
• Validated experience of analysing key themes using data from a wide range of sources and identifies possible impacts on the business.
• Collaboration and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and accurately verbally and in writing.
  
  At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares!
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies