Head of Data in Hampshire, Portsmouth

Company Description

Fund Sense is a specialist platform focused on automating asset management operations through governed, golden-source product data and a controlled operational architecture.

The Fund Sense i D data foundation manages thousands of structured product data points across the investment lifecycle, aligning them with industry standards and regulatory templates such as EMT, EPT, EET, and openfunds.

Operating on this robust data layer, Fund Sense automates workflows, validations, and document creation for product data management, regulatory disclosures, distributor templates, and lifecycle events.

By shifting control upstream into data governance and operational design, clients reduce reconciliation efforts, shorten reporting cycles, and gain full audit traceability.

The result is a more resilient operating model where automation supports scale, regulatory change, and product innovation.

• Role Description
• Based in UK or Europe
• Data Strategy and Fund Sense i D
• Own and evolve Fund Sense’s data strategy, translating the company vision and client needs into clear priorities for data operations and the continued development of Fund Sense i D.
• Shape Fund Sense i D as the governed foundational data layer underpinning workflows, automation, reporting, document solutions and AI capabilities across the platform.
• Define scalable approaches for managing fund, share class, product and reference data across clients, vendors, administrators and industry templates.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen Fund Sense’s data capabilities through improved models, mappings, integrations, reconciliation and automation.
• Establish clear measures for data quality, timeliness, completeness, operational efficiency and client value.
• Data Governance and Operational Design
• Lead the design and continued evolution of Fund Sense’s operational data governance framework, including ownership, lineage, controls, approvals and auditability.
• Oversee data quality, validation, reconciliation and exception management processes, ensuring issues are prioritised, resolved and used to drive continuous improvement.
• Define structured data models, mapping standards, business rules and operational practices that support consistent reuse across the Fund Sense platform.
• Design scalable workflows and controls for data ingestion, normalisation, enrichment, maintenance and dissemination across internal and third-party systems.
• Ensure changes to data points, mappings and templates are assessed, governed, tested and communicated effectively.
• Use root-cause analysis and operational insight to reduce manual work, prevent recurring errors and strengthen service performance as Fund Sense grows.
• Team Leadership and Mentorship
• Build, lead and develop a high-performing data function as Fund Sense grows.
• Mentor analysts and data specialists, establishing high standards for quality, accountability, analytical judgement, documentation and communication.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, knowledge management, performance development and the design of effective team practices.
• Create clear ownership and escalation paths across day-to-day data operations and strategic data initiatives.
• Act as the senior data subject matter expert across the business, supporting colleagues with complex operational and industry questions.
• Vendor Distributor and External Relationship Management
• Build and maintain strong relationships with data vendors, distributors, administrators, platforms and other strategic external partners.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders to improve data acquisition, integration, mapping, reconciliation and issue-resolution processes.
• Lead client and partner discussions relating to data quality, operational workflows, governance, controls and service performance.
• Monitor relevant industry standards and template developments, translating changes into practical priorities for Fund Sense and its clients.
• Help identify opportunities to strengthen Fund Sense’s wider data ecosystem, partnerships and commercial offering.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work closely with product, document solutions, engineering, delivery, commercial and leadership teams on strategic initiatives and operational priorities.
• Translate data requirements into clear technical and operational outcomes, ensuring solutions work across workflows, documents, reports and integrated systems.
• Contribute confidently to internal and external meetings, representing data governance, quality and operational considerations.
• Help bridge operational, technical, regulatory and commercial perspectives across the business, resolving competing priorities constructively.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to turn proven operational improvements into reusable, maintainable platform capabilities.

Experience

• Significant experience in product, solutions or operational leadership roles within an asset manager, wealth manager, bank, asset management technology provider, data vendor, document provider or related industry supplier.
• Comprehensive understanding of the documents asset managers are required to produce and maintain, including fund factsheets, KIDs and KIIDs, prospectuses, supplements, regulatory reports, client reports and board materials.
• Strong knowledge of the internal and external data used within these documents, including product, fund, share-class, portfolio, performance, risk, charges, sustainability and regulatory data.
• Practical understanding of how data is sourced from internal systems and third parties, governed, validated, transformed and distributed across documents, reports and downstream platforms.
• Experience with the technologies used to create and manage asset management documents, including product and data masters, document-generation platforms, workflow automation, content management, reporting tools, APIs and AI-enabled solutions.
• Demonstrable ability to translate complex operational, regulatory and user requirements into scalable product capabilities and prioritised roadmaps.
• Salary

Competitive and commensurate with experience.