Data Management Manager

Job Description About our client A leading bank in Hong Kong is seeking a Data Governance & Quality Manager to strengthen data governance, data quality and regulatory data compliance across the business. Partnering with data owners and stewards across business lines, you'll play a central role in the bank's HKMA Granular Data Reporting (GDR 3.0) readiness while acting as a data workstream lead on its wider data transformation agenda. Responsibilities Identify and manage Critical Data Elements (CDEs), map data lineage, and maintain data cataloguing and data quality across the bank Support HKMA Granular Data Reporting (GDR 3.0) readiness — interpreting requirements, mapping submission attributes to source systems, and defining validation and reconciliation controls Drive data quality control end to end: profiling, rule definition, monitoring, exception reporting and issue management, including root cause analysis and remediation tracking Support and enforce data governance policies and standards, ensuring governance decisions are made, documented and adhered to Partner with data owners and stewards across business lines to agree ownership, negotiate priorities and secure buy-in for changes to data processes and controls Act as a data workstream lead on the data transformation agenda, translating business requirements into deliverables and working with IT and project teams through delivery Chair or contribute to data quality issue-management forums, and produce clear reporting on data quality, governance adherence and transformation progress for senior stakeholders Requirements Strong banking background with proven expertise in data compliance Genuine conceptual command of data governance, data management, data quality and data stewardship as distinct but connected disciplines Hands-on involvement in HKMA Granular Data Reporting (GDR), with a working understanding of submission requirements, attribute definitions, validation and reconciliation Demonstrable experience ensuring adherence to HKMA SPM, BCBS 239 risk data aggregation principles and the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO) Exceptional stakeholder management, with a track record of influencing business data owners who do not report into them Experience of data issue management and working within transformation or change programmes Familiarity with data governance and data quality tooling (e.g. Collibra, Informatica, Alation) advantageous Cantonese and English; Mandarin an advantage