Process Control Engineer

Overview:
**The Company**:
Preqin is an award-winning, independent, research company providing data and intelligence to the financial industry. Investment professionals use Preqin’s online products to obtain key information for business-critical decision-making. Preqin’s clients include fund managers, legal firms, institutional investors, financial advisors and placement agents.

Primarily a data company; Preqin is also a fast-moving fintech with a strong growth record and a world-wide staff base. Owned by our founder, directors and employee shareholders, we care passionately about our customers, brand and the employees that make it all happen.

**Team Overview**:
Data is core to Preqin’s industry offerings and the data management team delivers accurate, timely and complete data enhancing the value of our award-winning offerings. The trust in our underlying content enables our clients to make key investment decisions.

**Role Overview**:
Reporting to the Head of Data Management, the Process Control Engineer will undertake responsibility of the data life cycle from understanding the data collection process from ingestion of data to the publishing of data to internal and external clients focusing on data SLAs/KPIs to achieve operational excellence.

The role will primarily involve understanding the data operational responsibilities of the underlying domains team in an effort to create operational excellence for the group working in tandem with the global head and the COO. The individual would need to have strong organization and project management skills to map out workflow process designs for the different domains identifying inefficiencies and opportunities. The individual would also provide business intelligence reports and recommendations to improve data content and work on workflow change management with stakeholders. The role provides the exciting advancement opportunity of eventually being a critical member of the Project Management Office and being a key role across departments.

The data management team is responsible for acquisition and collection of key public and private data that fuels Preqin’s online databases and products. The individual has the opportunity to contribute to the future proofing of Preqin’s data operations by analyzing content that is locally collected vis-à-vis collected through vendors to improve overall quality and time to market. Upon developing holistic domain and market knowledge, members of this team will be able to contribute to organisational strategy around data management workflow tools, systems and resources for the future.

Full training relevant to the role will be provided.

**Responsibilities**:
**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Key liaison for Global Head of Data Management
- Understanding state of operations with an aim to create and further operational excellence
- Creating business optimization opportunities leveraging existing BI tools
- Understand data life cycle nuances across datasets and provide data optimization opportunities
- Collaborate across department levels to identify further opportunities to seek operational excellence
- Leverage data domain knowledge and technical skills (python, BI) to analyse operations holistically and provide workflow prioritization recommendations
- Conduct landscape scanning in relation to new BI tools, reporting mechanisms, resourcing opportunities, etc to identify emerging trends that are specific to various countries and regions
- Identify areas of improvement on data management globally

Qualifications:
**Key Requirements for this Role**:

- At least 8-10 years of relevant working experience in finance/alternative assets required.
- Management and leadership experience is key for the role.
- Experience supporting a senior manager is preferred.
- Proven Project Management skills including workflow design is preferred.
- Demonstrated communications skills with experience working with high level executives.
- Education level - Bachelors’ Degree.
- Knowledge of business intelligence systems is a must.
- Organisation design building experience is a must.
- Technical knowledge (SQL/BI/Python).

**Desirable Requirements**:

- Project Management certification preferred.
- Organisational design skills are key in order to work with senior management on strategic initiatives.
- Knowledge of techstack and workflow systems is preferred
- Experience in working across cultures and locations is preferred.
- Change Management experience supporting global transitions preferred.
- Technical knowledge (SQL/Python) preferred.

Other:
**Company Benefits**:

- Medical and dental benefits
- Flexi Benefits - Health and Wellness Incentives
- 21 days holiday
- We also sponsor employees to undertake professional training or to gain qualifications relevant to their career

**Our Company Values**:
At Preqin we’re driven by our values: everything we do is in line with the six guiding principles we have set for ourselves.
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