European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
is currently seeking candidates (F/M) for the post of
Data & Statistics Team Leader (grade AD8)
Risk Analysis and Economics Department
ref. ESMA/2015/VAC25/AD8
ESMA, which is based in Paris, is the independent European Union (EU) Authority responsible for securities markets issues. Its mission is to enhance investor protection and promote stable and orderly financial markets in the EU.
The Risk Analysis and Economics Department (RAE) is the analytical and statistics department at ESMA. It monitors market, systemic and innovation risks in the EU’s securities markets, financial infrastructures, and investment businesses, conducts research on market functioning, investor protection, and financial stability issues.
The Data & Statistics Team Leader will be in charge of leading ESMA’s data and statistics work, including in particular the following duties:
Your responsibilities/job description:
Data strategy
- lead the development of the strategic agenda for data and statistics management at ESMA;
- develop data governance framework for ESMA, including planning, supervision and control, data security, confidentiality, access, data quality management;
- coordinate the development and production of methodologies, meta-data, reference and master data, and
- lead the data integration of datasets and the process to make them accessible to all ESMA.
Business development
- ensure the implementation of the strategic agenda for data and statistics management and the development of the necessary policies, processes, and tools;
- lead the strategic planning, development and implementation of the data management activities;
- publication containing data and statistics, in particular those that are part of the transparency mandate;
- coordinate with IT department, in particular in the areas of data architecture, data warehousing, data security, data virtualization and any software tool related to the data;
- coordinate with policy and supervision departments as well as with other teams inside RAE for the data development, quality checks and the creation of business intelligence recurrent analysis as well as specific data projects;
- lead the cooperation with EU and international bodies in this area, and represent ESMA, as well as the coordination with ESMA’s National Competent Authorities;
- propose and analyse the acquisition of commercial databases;
- coordinate data sourcing and analysis, and the development of business intelligence tools, and
- lead the data provision to support risk analysis, economic research and innovative products;
Team management
- manage the Data and Statistics Team in an active, motivating, and pragmatic manner;
- plan and organise the efficient allocation of the work between the various members of the team;
- ensure timely delivery of high-quality work in the various areas of competence of ESMA in this field, and in particular in implementation of data quality analysis, and
- ensure good communication between the different members of the team, as well as across the rest of the Department and across ESMA.
Managerial support
Essential requirements:
- Six (6) years of experience in financial market data management and analysis;
- Three (3) years of experience in managing a team or working in a managerial role, including strong leadership and social skills;
- Excellent written and oral English.
For more information, please consult ESMA’s website and careers section:https://www.esma.europa.eu/about-esma/careers
The closing date for sending applications is 10/01/2016 (23:59 hrs, Paris local time), please use online application tool when applying.
