Data Quality Lead – Financial Services | Belfast (Hybrid)

Drive Data Excellence. Lead Impactful Change

We are seeking an experienced Data Quality Lead in Belfast to join our client's global operations team, supporting the Head of Data Operations in delivering a high-profile reference data clean-up initiative. You will play a pivotal role in driving the accuracy and integrity of party data (customer and trader records), while mentoring a team and collaborating across business and technology functions.

This is an exciting opportunity to step into a leadership position within a leading financial institution, where your work will directly impact operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and strategic data management.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a sub-team of analysts, setting priorities, providing coaching, and overseeing delivery of data cleansing activities.
• Analyse party and trade data across multiple systems to assess recency and reliability of static data.
• Validate data to ensure it meets the highest standards of completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
• Conduct gap analysis to identify and address client data requirements.
• Partner with Operations and IT teams to resolve complex data issues through process enhancements or system development.
• Support technical change by gathering requirements, conducting user acceptance testing (UAT), and offering post-release support.
• Create and deliver management information (MI) reports to support service reviews with senior and regional stakeholders.
• Help design and implement process improvements to ensure compliance with regulatory changes affecting operations data.
• Perform hands-on data entry and updates within the firm’s master data system when needed.

What You Bring:

Essential:

• 3–5 years of overall experience, with 1–3 years in people or performance management roles in Financial Services.
• Deep attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and a proactive mindset.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with broader MS Office tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication skills—verbal and written—tailored for different audiences.

Desired:

• Knowledge of financial markets and trading environments.
• Previous experience in a similar data governance or operations function.
• Experience with Power Query, or similar ETL/data transformation tools.

Vantage Point Global is fully committed to being an Equal Opportunities, inclusive employer. We are passionate about attracting diverse talent, and welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.

Things you need to know:

• To apply, you’ll need to provide us with a CV and answer a few initial questions.

• We’d like to make you aware that if you have not heard back from us within three weeks of the date of application that we will not be progressing your application.