Job Specifications
Job title - Data Operations Analyst – Global Investment Operations (UK) 2-year FTC
Location – London
About Federated Hermes;
Federated Hermes, Inc. is a global leader in active, responsible investment management, with $871.2B in assets under management, as of October, 31st, 2025. We deliver investment solutions that help investors target a broad range of outcomes and provide equity, fixed-income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset, and liquidity management strategies to more than 11,000 institutions and intermediaries worldwide.
Our clients include corporations, government entities, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, banks, and broker/dealers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Federated Hermes has more than 2,000 employees in London, New York and offices worldwide. For more information, visit FederatedHermes.com
Main Function of the role:
Following the acquisition of Hermes Investments by Federated in 2018, strategic initiatives to harmonise processes and practices are a strong element of the global change agenda. This role will provide Investment Operations BAU and change management support within a programme of work designed to reinforce firmwide integration, create opportunities for commercial growth, and deliver operational efficiency improvements across the US and UK. Phase one of harmonisation is adoption of consistent Trading Order Management System (OMS) and Federated Hermes Limited (FHL) will be moving from the current OMS to new Equity and Fixed income OMS platforms consistent with the US office, creating a harmonised global model. A key component is to define and establish a consistent global data model and data support operating model. The role holder will provide day to day data operations coverage supporting the increased and more complex data operations model as we navigate creation of a uniform data architecture and migrate and consolidate data to support the future state operating environment. A strong Data platform is an important foundation and critical to the success of the TOMS interim model. This role sits within the Investment Operations – Middle Office team reporting to the Head of Data Operations. With sound experience the Senior Data Analyst will have close interaction with business intelligence and reporting services for Investments, Risk and Client Reporting teams.
They will maintain key reference data, assist with start of day, data quality checks, work to continuously improve data quality, resolve queries, and assist in recommending and implementing improvements to processes and controls. The role holder works as part of a team who are responsible for ensuring high quality data is maintained in core investment systems. The primary focus of the team is ensuring data feeds from service providers and market data vendors are processed into investment management and reporting systems and controlled on an exception
Key task and responsibilities:
• Develop strong relationships with key client and stakeholder groups including Investments, Risk, Business Development, Operations, and IT, in order to understand key needs and drivers and improve data services.
• Develop a detailed knowledge of business intelligence and reporting services mapping the data flows and quality management processes supporting delivery of data into investment decision making.
•Operate a robust set of data controls on data received from NT and market data vendors ensuring that data presented to end user applications is complete, accurate and timely.
• Ensure master data sets such as securities, accounts, share classes and counterparties are set up and maintained to a high standard.
• Competent to operate all ‘business as usual’ activities in the team working towards expert level on majority.
• Maintain and build strong knowledge base on data elements of products and all asset classes.
• Perform root cause analysis of data exceptions, identifying actions that can be made to prevent recurrence such as improvements in source data, system processing or additional controls required.
• Maintain team procedures and other documentation such as process diagrams and data dictionaries to a high standard.
• Oversee delivery of work rota, checking for completion of all daily and monthly tasks, support training of other team members and checking of work performed by others
• Challenge processes and continually improve data quality controls through an understanding of data content and its usage, business impact and risk
• Contribute to data operations team on change initiatives and projects through proactive engagement with change teams, consideration of the impact of changes, early engagement in design, provision of subject matter expertise, planning and executing UAT
Minimum Experience Required:
• Previous experience using data management tools and investment management systems for
example: MarkitEDM, EAGLE, thinkFolio , Charles River, Bloomberg.
• Strong data analysis capabilities using b
About the Company
Federated Hermes is guided by the conviction that responsible investing is the best way to create long-term wealth.
We provide specialised capabilities across equity, fixed income and private markets, in addition to multi-asset strategies and proven liquidity-management solutions.
Through our world-leading stewardship services, we engage companies on strategic and sustainability concerns to promote investors’ long-term performance and fiduciary interests.
Our goals are to help individuals invest and retire better, to hel...
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