Consultant, Data Management and Governance - Ag & Trading

Job Purpose and Impact
The Professional, Data Management & Governance (Market Data Services), job ensures the accuracy, security and effective use of the organization's externally sourced market data. With limited supervision, this job follows contract and inventory management policies and procedures, handles administrative data quality, internal cost allocations, invoice reconciliation against contract and inventory, and ensures compliance with contract terms and third-party / vendor reporting requirements.
The Data Management & Governance job is also providing a service to our internal stakeholders. This job defines and implements service levels, communications standards, and ticket administration (prioritization, follow up, and hygiene), to ensure timely identification, tracking and completion of requests.
Key Accountabilities

• MARKET DATA CONTRACT & INVENTORY STORAGE, ADMINISTRATION & TRACKING: Implements and maintains standards for administration of contracts, contract terms, services, inventory and key contract lifecycle events (eg. subscription onboarding, cancellation and / or renewal).
• DATA ADMINISTRATION STANDARDS: Reviews and documents data administration standards to ensure consistency and quality across all contracts and inventories, and that policies are followed.
• MARKET DATA ADMINISTRATION QUALITY: Helps ensure the accuracy, consistency and reliability of information on contracts, inventory and cost, throughout subscription lifecycle by handling administrative quality standards, monitoring quality metrics and implementing corrective processes while supporting quality audits as needed to ensure standards are met.
• POLICY DEVELOPMENT & GOVERNANCE: Implements contract and inventory portfolio administrative governance policies that help maintain administrative integrity ensuring processes align with organizational goals, and frameworks that define how contracts are administered / managed, stored, and processed.
• DATA OPERATIONS & STEWARDSHIP: Implements operational improvements to reduce inventory and cost management errors, improve efficiency and speed while maintaining accuracy and compliance to third party regulations and policies.
• DATA LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT: Handles moderately complex contract and inventory data from initiation to decommissioning through the lifecycle to ensure compliance with policies and regulations.
• TECHNOLOGY: Sustains solutions or improvements to data management and governance technologies to advance data practices for improved compliance, efficiency and value.
• SERVICE OPERATIONS: Implements and administers request and incident management processes to ensure service levels for requests are met, including prioritization, communications and tracking to completion.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
• The following experience is advantageous:
  • Market Data acquisition and administration, including familiarity with applications like Market Data Management (MDM), and Optimized Spend (FITS / OS).
  • Accounting / Finance workflows, especially Invoice to Pay and Accounts Payable.
  • Agile methodology, including srums and ticket management solutions like JIRA.